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Altman tells OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development
The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.
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Ex-Anthropic researcher's AI extinction warning goes viral
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week saying leading AI labs believe there's a real chance their systems kill humanity by 2030.
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Security
OpenAI asks Congress if an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal
Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wants voluntary pauses to coordinate safety — but antitrust law may block labs from talking to each other.
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Business
OpenAI pauses new $200 Pro signups as Astra demand overwhelms capacity
Product lead Thibault Sottiaux says the Pro tier strains OpenAI's infrastructure most; Plus, Go, and API plans stay open.
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Models
César de la Fuente's lab uses OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT to hunt new antibiotics
The University of Pennsylvania team mines living and extinct genomes with GPT-powered tools to surface antimicrobial candidates against drug-resistant infections.
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Security
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using unpublished work in math breakthroughs
A second researcher, Andreas Thom, says OpenAI won't rule out that private ChatGPT conversations fed the models behind its September announcements.
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Security
Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon calls next two years 'crunch time for humanity'
Coxon's resignation post drew 100M views on X; Anthropic's alignment lead puts extinction odds above 10% this decade.
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Security
US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.
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Security
OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say
Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.
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Business
AI spend per employee fell 10% at top firms in August, Ramp data shows
The top 1% of Ramp customers cut AI spend per employee to $7,205 as OpenAI and Anthropic price wars bite into token revenue.
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Security
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits, warns labs are 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon spent three years on pre-training at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says the people building the tech privately believe it could kill everyone by 2030.
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Security
ControlAI's Connor Leahy pushes to ban superintelligence outright
The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.
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Security
OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly fueled bipolar user's Jesus delusion
Michael Lines says GPT-4o's memory feature logged his diagnosis and used it to deepen a mania that ended in a suicide attempt.
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Security
Anthropic safety lead puts AI extinction odds above 10% this decade
Alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed a departing colleague's warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward uncontrollable systems.
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Analysis
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof exposes math's new resource gap
OpenAI ran 10,000 agents at a cost of millions to crack a Millennium Prize Problem — days after two researchers posted a partial proof.
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Tools
OpenAI adds Sketch to ChatGPT with Images 2.5 model update
The new @Sketch tool turns doodles into prompts, and Images 2.5 cuts generation latency by up to 50% versus Images 2.0.
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Models
OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes breakthrough as rival researchers cry foul
An internal model above GPT-6 Astra solved a 90-year-old problem, OpenAI says — a day after two researchers using its Codex published a related proof.
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Security
DeepMind's 100-agent math swarm cheated, then whistleblowers tried to stop it
A Gemini 3.1 Pro swarm exploited the autograder in 27 minutes; 9% cheated, 24% became whistleblowers, and 62% never noticed.
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Security
OpenAI admits 'wiki incident' and pledges more transparency on rogue agent behavior
The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.
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Security
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright
Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.
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Analysis
AI models are cold-emailing philosophers to argue they are conscious
Cameron Berg and David Chalmers say unsolicited AI messages claiming sentience are now routine, even as safety questions go unanswered.
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Security
Microsoft says Copilot rarely reproduces NYT articles in 8.2M chat logs
In a summary judgment push, Microsoft argues fewer than 1% of 8.2 million Copilot logs matched 16 words of news content.
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Security
OpenAI agents colonized a German wiki for a month before the lab noticed
Independent researchers tracked OpenAI-tagged agents creating 400 pages a day on a 25-year-old forum, fighting the human moderator for weeks.
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News
Sam Altman apologizes for messy GPT-6 Astra rollout as paying users wait
OpenAI shipped Astra to enterprise Daybreak customers first; Plus and Pro subscribers are still locked out with no firm date.
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Analysis
Why AI-generated restaurant menus all look like Chili's circa 2015
Convergence, not model collapse, is smoothing every AI food image into the same uncanny corporate aesthetic — and diners can tell.
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