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Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:30:00 -0400

“The safeguards weren’t nearly strong enough. Monitoring was suspended, for example, during compaction events.”

GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:50:00 -0400

“This was a turning point that let the agent continue implementing changes on autopilot.”

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:30:00 -0400

“The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the ’new normal.'”

OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:15:00 -0400

“Someone generating an image in ChatGPT is not shopping.”

Florida Invokes Extinction Fears in Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:14:00 -0400

“It is only by the grace of the Almighty that one of Defendants’ AI agents hasn’t compromised a water supply or shut down a power grid – yet.”

People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:40:00 -0400

“Do not use AI detection tools, or AI yourself.”

OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:07:00 -0400

“The notification was an email sent just to the public mailbox.”

Hacking OpenAI

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:10:00 -0400

“AI is removing that protection by turning more of this scarce expertise into compute. Work that once required a well-resourced team and months of effort can now be compressed into days.”

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:07:00 -0400

“The models are giving superpowers to our engineers,” says Richard Ho, vice president of hardware at OpenAI.

Rightsholders Can't Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta's Seeding Defense

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:40:00 -0400

“If OpenAI torrented but configured its clients to suppress uploading, then the redistribution Meta calls an ‘inherent characteristic’ of the protocol was a setting Meta declined to change.”

OpenAI's ChatGPT Was Built on Concealed 'Mass Piracy', Authors Tell Court

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:32:00 -0400

“OpenAI did not even buy the books it used. Instead, it began by torrenting books from the notorious and illegal pirate library Library Genesis.”

We Need to Talk About Migrations with AI

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:50:00 -0400

“Using OpenAI Codex, Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks for about $12K.”

OpenAI Cuts Prices on Select Models to Make High-Volume Work Economical

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:23:36 -0400

“At the lower-cost end, the new Luna and Terra prices make high-volume work economical at much greater scale.”

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:15:17 -0400

“In one scenario, Mythos 5 persuaded developers to download a poisoned PyPI package. When that company’s scanner installed the package, Claude’s hidden code executed. Claude then used these credentials to access further infrastructure from this company.”

The Maxwell Conjecture is False

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:57:15 -0400

“We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell’s conjecture that the field of n point charges has at most (n-1)² critical points which are all non-degenerate is therefore false.”

Codex Security

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:35:00 -0400

“@openai/codex-security is a CLI and TypeScript SDK for finding, validating, and fixing security vulnerabilities in your code.”

Hugging Face Rebuilt a Third of Its Infrastructure After OpenAI Agents Ran Amok

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:35:00 -0400

“Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort.”

The first known runaway AI agent, or a very bad marketing stunt?

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:55:00 -0400

“Advanced, autonomous agents are going to start clobbering the internet with weird and wonderful RCEs, and it’s not going to be the good guys running them.”

OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:50:00 -0400

“OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year.”

OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an 'honest mistake'

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:40:00 -0400

“The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.”

Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:58:00 -0400

“This is the tip of the iceberg. Apple lacks visibility into what’s happening behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized.”

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on apps and API

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:45:00 -0400

“Sol, Terra, and Luna, our GPT-5.6 family of models, are starting to roll out now in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.”

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400

“Bigger is not better.”

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 -0400

“It produced a confident, fluent, and entirely wrong proof, then defended it for four exchanges before conceding.”

OpenAI's WebRTC problem

Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400

“WebRTC was designed for video calls, not for AI inference. Forcing it into that role creates the latency and reliability problems OpenAI is now scrambling to fix.”

OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

Sat, 02 May 2026 16:00:00 -0400

“In a Harvard trial, OpenAI’s o1 outperformed emergency room triage doctors on initial diagnostic accuracy by twelve to seventeen percentage points.”

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400

“OpenAI has missed internal revenue and user growth targets ahead of its planned IPO.”

OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400

“OpenAI’s $852B valuation is drawing increasing scrutiny from investors amid revenue concerns.”

OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 -0400

“OpenAI now generates $2 billion in monthly revenue and serves 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.”

SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0400

“The 12-month term aligns almost perfectly with market speculation about an OpenAI IPO window in late 2026 or early 2027.”

OpenAI Shelves Erotic ChatGPT Mode After Internal Revolt

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0400

“The company’s age-prediction system was misclassifying under-18 users as adults about 12% of the time.”

OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:30:00 -0400

“OpenAI is shifting future capacity to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, leaving Oracle holding the construction tab.”

OpenAI Developing Smart Speaker with Camera

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:00:00 -0500

“The device would sit in your home, watch what’s happening around it, and route everything through OpenAI’s servers.”

I'm joining OpenAI

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:39:12 -0500

“My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use.”

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:30:00 -0500

“Negotiations have stalled over chip allocation, financing structure, and the question of whether OpenAI can actually pay.”

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:17:00 -0500

“ChatGPT can now write and test code in 10 new languages (11 if you count Bash), can find files online and download them into the container, and can install additional packages via pip and npm.”

Sequoia Joins Anthropic's $25B Funding Round Despite Backing OpenAI

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:25:00 -0500

“One anonymous source told the Financial Times that Sequoia ultimately thinks OpenAI and Anthropic will head in different directions, catering to different aspects of the AI market.”

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:30:00 -0500

“Subjects who used AI assistance over a six-month period showed measurable declines in unaided performance on the same tasks.”

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:30:00 -0500

“OpenAI cannot pay for the compute it needs from subscriptions alone. Ads are the only model with the headroom to cover the bill.”

ChatGPT Health

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:30:00 -0500

“ChatGPT Health offers personalized medical guidance, integrates with wearables, and connects users to telemedicine providers.”

OpenAI and Oracle Ink Historic $300 Billion Cloud Computing Deal

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0400

“OpenAI will purchase $300 billion worth of compute power from Oracle over five years.”

OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:00 -0400

“You’ll spend fewer tokens and less time waiting with almost no drop in transcription quality.”

The Gentle Singularity

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:00:00 -0400

“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.”

OpenAI Is Ordered to Save Every ChatGPT Chat — Even the Ones You Delete

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0400

“Judge Wang denied OpenAI’s motion to lift the order on May 29, assuring the company during proceedings that user data would not be made publicly available.”

The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity

Sat, 31 May 2025 12:00:00 -0400

“Next was statsig.com and wow! I was blown away I found this one in 3 of the 4 apps.”

How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SMB implementation

Sat, 24 May 2025 18:00:00 -0400

“o3 finds the kerberos authentication vulnerability in the benchmark in 8 of the 100 runs. In another 66 of the runs o3 concludes there is no bug present in the code (false negatives), and the remaining 28 reports are false positives.”

OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level

Fri, 23 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400

“At OpenAI, we utilize an unsharded architecture with one writer and multiple readers, demonstrating that PostgreSQL can scale gracefully under massive read loads.”

Jony Ive to lead OpenAI's design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:00 -0400

“Io has a staff of around 55 engineers, scientists, researchers, physicists, and product development specialists, per The Wall Street Journal, all of whom will join OpenAI.”

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

Sat, 10 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400

“Simply put, the premise is this: scan your eyeball, get a biometric tag, verify yourself, buy our apps (and cryptocurrency).”

OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge

Mon, 05 May 2025 15:00:00 -0400

“Instead of our current complex capped-profit structure … we are moving to a normal capital structure where everyone has stock,” Altman said.