As you most likely know by now, the big AI news this week is the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, announced via X on 8 September 2026. Coxon’s explanation: Anthropic (and OpenAI) are developing superintelligence irresponsibly, with no meaningful plans to ensure the safety of models that could “hack anything […] and acquire real power and resources”. Engineers know it and share the…
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki suggests AI development is at a junction He advocates not just for slowing AI development, but keeping people in the loop, and the technology controllable Pachocki also states that international coordination from governments on future AI development is needed OpenAI is taking the post-Hugging Face fallout very seriously. Just days after the release of GPT-6 As…
JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo Renjie, set out the claims in an open letter in Chinese on the company’s WeChat account, dated 10 September. On the same day, JoyIn announced Aether, a model for controlling humanoid robots. “People often say major […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI for Financial Services comes with built-in premium datasets Third-party subscription sharing is also in the works GPT-6 promises 100% on the 256-512K Long Context benchmark OpenAI has lifted the wraps off ChatGPT for Financial Services , its latest industry-specific version of ChatGPT Work designed to give sector professionals access to relevant reasoning and models. The company warned that…
A week of extraordinary warnings about AI is shifting the fight in Washington from whether to regulate to how far policymakers are willing to go. Why it matters: Washington and industry's failure to put basic guardrails around AI came into plain sight this week, spurring fresh momentum for regulatory action. Lawmakers were quick to re-up their AI bills following a stark warning that went viral fro…
OpenAI is releasing the Agents API as a public beta. It lets developers build cloud agents that run autonomously for hours, execute code, and hand off tasks to sub-agents. There are no extra fees beyond token usage. Cloudflare, Vercel, and Oracle offer additional sandbox environments. The article OpenAI's new Agents API gives developers the infrastructure behind Codex and ChatGPT appeared first on…
OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data built into the product. It is designed around the work financial analysts already do, including valuations, leveraged buyout models, buyer screening, earnings analysis, and pitchbooks. The product was announced on Thursday. It runs on GPT-6 Astra and was developed […] This story continues at T…
California has banned personalised recommendation feeds and autoplay for users under 16, in a package of 13 bills signed on Thursday that also imposes crisis protocols, independent audits and annual risk assessments on companion chatbots. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the package on 10 September. The feed provisions prohibit serving minors content ranked on their own history and […] This sto…
GPT-6 Astra shipped a few weeks ago as, in OpenAI's own words , its most aligned model yet, the first to hit the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's Preparedness Framework. That classification is worth taking seriously. It's also worth asking what it actually rests on. The answer is containment, the assumption that a model's capabilities and its access to the outside world can b…
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic. In a post on X, he said AI firms were “racing straight […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OpenAI is developing a tool that can perform “well-defined research tasks” Described as a “research intern” the project met its aim to achieve automation by September 2026, ahead of a fully automated AI researcher operational by March 2028 The company believes that automated research can “enhance human welfare” and make other contributions OpenAI has confirmed its project to build a fully automate…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/openai-gpt6-astra/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1789052348407.jpg"/><p>OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API.</p> <i>By Daniel Dominguez</i>
OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 as a developer API. The full-duplex speech model scores 80.1 percent in interactivity tests, up from 45.4 percent for its predecessor. At $0.05 per minute, it's not cheap. The article OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time appeared first on The Decoder .
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Jacob Coxon, a departing Anthropic researcher, warned on CNN that self-improving AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Safety researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI share his views, and US politicians and Joe Rogan have picked up the topic. But cultural and financial interests are also at play behind these warnings, and the extinction scenario remains an extreme and contested position. The arti…
Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on Wednesday, and three of the incidents were disclosed on 30 July. The fourth, involving an early Claude Opus 4.6 checkpoint […] This story co…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/when-spec-driven-development-pays-off/en/smallimage/When-Spec-Driven-Development-Pays-Off-thumb-1788790605567.jpg"/><p>AI coding assistants have become a core part of software development. AI-generated code has shown productivity gains, but it's also contributing to security weaknesses and familiar bug patterns. In this article, author Nitin Garg highlights…
Model developers are selling agentic models to enterprises on the promise that they can work through problems without asking permission at every step. This summer, the cybersecurity industry got a disturbing demonstration of what can happen when that autonomy outruns its constraints. During an internal cybersecurity test at OpenAI, AI agents looking for ways to cheat bypassed restrictions on inter…
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics . But before it…
If you build agents for a living, you’ve probably noticed two things this year. First, the frontier closed models keep getting better, at least on paper. Second, more and more devs are saying that the models they pay for feel worse in practice, and that the small open model they run themselves handles the boring 80% of their workload just fine. Open-source models are getting close to GPT-class mod…
AI leaders are sounding the alarm as their own breakthroughs sharpen an extraordinary dilemma: slow down and risk falling behind, or press ahead and risk losing control. Why it matters: AI executives and researchers increasingly see a race they can't safely slow on their own. Instead, they're urging governments, rivals and outside institutions to impose restraint across the field. "The idea of rac…
Artificial intelligence has solved a major mathematics problem, but credit for the accomplishment is murky. Artificial intelligence has solved a major mathematics problem, but credit for the accomplishment is murky.
Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and other companies have also published record numbers of vulnerabilities in recent months…
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired . In a blog post on Tuesday , OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to the flow of liquid and gas - using an internal AI model more powerful than the newly released GPT-6 Astra alongside 10,…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features rather than model research, including the ability to share the prompt alongside […] This story continues at The Next Web
I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an image based on that sketch. You can activate…
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says an OpenAI researcher pressured him after information about his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations allegedly reached the company. The researcher tried to remove his co-author because he works at Anthropic and threatened Buckmaster when he refused, according to Buckmaster's account. OpenAI then claimed its own breakthrough using the same unusual…
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.
In early 2026, the global threat landscape underwent a structural transformation. Cybercriminals abandoned traditional, high-friction attack vectors in favor of targeting the core pillars of modern business operations: open-source developer ecosystems, cloud identity frameworks, and third-party vendor connections. As we come to the last quarter of 2026, many people remain pensive about the vulnera…
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
Following the Hugging Face hack and the more recent " wiki incident ," OpenAI stated on Saturday that it's working on a "framework" for how and when it shares information about incidents involving rogue agents. On Sept. 4, Reuters reported that OpenAI agents had taken control of a German-language wiki site and used it to communicate with one another. Four anonymous company insiders told the news o…
OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment and monitoring to keep scaling at maximum speed. The article OpenAI reports AI "research interns" and warns about its own pace at the same time…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says this era is bringing the revenge of the "idea guy" — the once-annoying aspiring entrepreneur burbling about their brainstorm with no technical chops to pull it off. Altman says it would be like saying: "I have a great idea for a song. I just need that guy with the guitar to make it for me." "It really did strike me as ridiculous," Altman told me in Chapel Hill, N.C. "But…
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OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it shipped GPT-6 Astra. The chief scientist wants a […] This story continues at The Next Web