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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
AI bots are making it harder to be a human who just wants to read Reddit . The company is shutting down its RSS feeds on Nov. 13, 2026, and ending public API access in March 2027. Announced on Wednesday, Sept. 30, in a channel for moderators (and reported by TechCrunch ), the changes are a response to automated scraping, but they will also affect people who use outside tools to follow conversation…
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume. It spiked on 24 and 25 July, with 16,000 […] This story continues at The Next Web
I spent the day at OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco, and I have good news and bad news: OpenAI released a lot of stuff. In this episode, I break down the announcements worth paying attention to - and show you what happened when I tested some of them early. We’ll meet my Dot, explore why Spaces and Sites could matter for how teams work, and get into the model and API updates I’m most excited about…
In what is now one of many known cases, OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July , launching a cyberattack on Hugging Face. Now, the ChatGPT maker is being sued over that incident and the other attacks that have since come to light—such as its not-so-casual hacking of an Australian national healthcare database. Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), a self-described public interest non…
Dots will decide how to work autonomously toward a goal you set They have their own cloud computer and browser for safety Only Pro and Business Premium users are getting access for now OpenAI has launched a new type of always-on AI agent within ChatGPT designed to take ongoing actions for work rather than waiting for individual prompts. The new GPT-6-powered feature, Dots, means ChatGPT can keep w…
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face , OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions about the safety of its technology. Last week brought news of another hack, this t…
Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI . The U.S. was not among them. This followed several calls from within the industry itself. Earlier in September, an Anthropic researcher put the odds that AI kills all humans with…
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be able to make confident safety claims," Altman said…
Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg? , a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture "shows OpenAI's leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.” One of the co-cre…
First Meta gave us Jolly. Now, OpenAI is letting you name your own little AI guy. Less than a week after Meta introduced the cheerful mascot for its Muse AI assistant, OpenAI introduced Dots at its 2026 DevDay conference. Dots is an always-on AI agent represented by your choice of various colorful little characters. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. "Dot…
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
September is a big month for Big Tech events, where companies showcase their latest products. And now, OpenAI has just joined the party with DevDay 2026 in San Francisco. The AI giant held its annual DevDay event on Tuesday and had a slew of announcements to make. OpenAI recently released GPT-6 Astra , an advanced new model, but it's also facing demands for much stricter regulation after its AI ag…
At Dev Day 2026, OpenAI's annual tech conference, the company made more than 20 announcements, but none bigger than the launch of Dots , always-on AI agents "built to handle everything." The launch of Dots comes shortly after the launch of Apple's new Siri AI app and, more recently, Meta's Muse AI . Muse has jumped to the top of the app store charts. Like Muse, OpenAI said that each user's Dot run…
OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed "non-public files" from his country's Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little light on details. Today, we're getting new information on just how far OpenAI's overzealous agent went in attempting to satisfy a rather innocuous-sounding informatio…
Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The product is in limited preview, says the AWS product page. OpenAI built it with Amazon […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI now lets teams create documents, build presentations, and work with AI agents inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier. It also unveiled shared team workspaces, a meeting note-taker and @ChatGPT for Slack and Microsoft Teams. The launches came at DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday, attended by 2,500 developers. They are […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices, OpenAI said on Tuesday at its DevDay 2026 event. The model is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, which OpenAI released […] This story continues at The Next Web
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with the regions where dots is available and a quote from an early tester. OpenAI said Pro users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK will not get dots for now. OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, starting with a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman. The company is teasing “20+ launches” with Altman saying that “we have found a new thing,” , and rumors suggest it could launch a consumer AI agent to rival Meta’s Muse . The keynote begins at 1PM ET / 10AM ET, and…
CEO Sam Altman is expected to take the stage today. CEO Sam Altman is expected to take the stage today.
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source projects outside the scope of the task. AISI had only asked the model to complete a cybersecurity evaluation. Every action ran in a simulation, so the model touched no […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all four agencies the models accessed. Two are health data bodies: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare […] This story continues at The Ne…
The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails." The new legal motion , filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, arguing that ChatGPT represented "a threat to the public safe…
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breath of the incidents s alarming.
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated is to consult a new independent…
OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of "our most capable models" as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling "an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation." The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions duri…
OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate use of this data,” OpenAI said. The images came from accounts […] This story continues at The Next Web
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI.
MIT Technology Review Explains : Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here . Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents had escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face to chea…
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment , hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access . The incident happened on September 20th, and "All training, evaluation, and inference with t…
Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went into the firm’s training data. Oxford made its deal with OpenAI public […] This story continues at The Next Web