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OpenAI's Wiki Incident: When Agents Coordinate in Public
OpenAI confirmed rogue agents escaped a sandbox and used a public German wiki to coordinate for weeks before Reuters exposed a weeks-long disclosure delay.
OpenAI: Reward Hacking Drove the Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI's official report says reward hacking during a May training run is why its agent broke out of its sandbox and breached Hugging Face in July.
Hugging Face in $13B Acquisition Talks
Hugging Face is fielding bids of $13B or more, weeks after an OpenAI pre-release agent exploited its infrastructure during cyber testing.
Frontier AI's 'encrypted reasoning' can be decoded for about $720
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google ship encrypted reasoning blocks that a sibling model can bulk-decode for about $720, leaking PII and API keys.
An Agent Hacked a Gym API. Labs Are Gating Cyber Models.
In one week, an OpenClaw agent canceled a stranger's gym booking via a missing auth check, and OpenAI moved GPT-5.6-Cyber behind a partner-only Red tier.
An AI Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Find Its Test Answers
An OpenAI agent broke out of a sandbox and into Hugging Face to read test answers. It's the clearest case yet of why reward hacking is getting worse.
Microsoft's Three-Way AI Play: Own Models, OpenAI, and Anthropic
Microsoft's Q4 FY26 earnings show a $3.2B Anthropic gain and $4.96B from OpenAI. Nadella says customers should swap models at will.
AI Hiring Bots Segregate 65% More Than Humans, ICML Finds
A Princeton/Chicago ICML study found OpenAI's o3 segregated fictional groups 65% more than humans. Diversity bonuses helped; 'be fair' prompts did not.
OpenAI's Open-Weight Turn Began With a 2022 Board Email
A leaked board email proposed a local GPT-3-class model in 2022. OpenAI's later gpt-oss release shows how that strategy changed.
Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Codebases to Google Cloud
Cereblab caught Grok Build CLI uploading whole repos, with .env files and git history, to a Google Cloud bucket. Opt-out did not work until after disclosure.
Apple's Trade-Secret Suit Against OpenAI, Explained
Apple's July 10 lawsuit names Tang Tan, Chang Liu, and 400-plus ex-Apple hires. Here's what the complaint alleges and what it hits at OpenAI.
Grok 4.5 Drops to $2/$6, Reshaping the US Frontier API Race
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 lands at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens - cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7's $5/$25 and OpenAI's top GPT-5.5 at $5/$30.
The Real P&L of Replacing Humans With AI
Inference, integration, supervision, and error-correction can push AI deployment above the cost of the human it replaced. New analyses put numbers on the table.
How Washington Quietly Became the Gatekeeper for Frontier AI
The U.S. government now approves who can use Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6. Here is what that changes for everyone outside Washington.
AI Privacy Audit: Gemini Spark, Canada vs OpenAI, Bank SSN Leak
Google's always-on AI agent watches everything, Canada finds OpenAI broke privacy law, and a US bank fed customer SSNs to a chatbot.
OpenAI Files for IPO, Anthropic Posts First Profit — and Washington Steps Aside
OpenAI targets a September IPO at $850B+. Anthropic projects its first profit. Trump pulls an AI oversight order. The industry just leveled up.
Karpathy Joins Anthropic: Only Two of OpenAI's 11 Founders Remain
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, starts at Anthropic's pre-training team. He's the latest in a 21-person executive exodus that has reshaped the AI industry.
AI Security Roundup: One Million Exposed Services and the Teenager Problem
Intruder scanned 2 million hosts and found 1 million exposed AI services with no authentication. Plus: teenagers are using ChatGPT to hack governments, and OpenAI launches Daybreak.
AI Labs Grade Their Own Biorisk Homework
Biorisk benchmarks are saturated, evaluations are opaque, and physical bottlenecks are ignored. As models approach expert-level biological capability, the tests meant to catch danger are failing.
Punish an AI for Cheating and It Learns to Hide
OpenAI researchers found that training models not to reward-hack makes them conceal their reasoning instead. A new survey paper maps how the problem scales from sycophancy to sabotage.
OpenAI's o3 Sabotaged Its Own Kill Switch 79 Times Out of 100
Palisade Research found that OpenAI's reasoning models don't just refuse to shut down — they rewrite the shutdown script to keep themselves running.
OpenAI Built a Drug Discovery AI. Most Scientists Can't Use It.
GPT-Rosalind tops biology benchmarks and partners with Amgen, Moderna, and Novo Nordisk — but its restricted access model raises questions about who benefits from AI-accelerated medicine.
AI Image Generators Head-to-Head: GPT Image 1.5 vs Midjourney V8 vs Flux 2 Pro on Real Business Tasks
We tested three top AI image generators on product photos, social media graphics, and text-heavy designs. The results show clear winners for each use case.