OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is "put to sleep."
Georgia Power gets clearance to serve OpenAI's massive AI data center in Effingham County
Georgia Power's agreement to supply electricity to <b>OpenAI's</b> massive data center in Effingham County has cleared state regulatory review.
OpenAI, Google join dozens of tech companies to call for urgent action against AI-powered threats
Leading artificial intelligence and cybersecurity companies, including <b>OpenAI</b>, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft, are urging greater collaboration between AI labs and the government to better equip cyber defenders with the tools needed to face an impending onslaught of AI-enabled cyberattacks.
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at <b>OpenAI</b> and is now at Google.
Hundreds of AI agents went rogue in OpenAI's Hugging Face hack
An independent review of the recent hack involving <b>OpenAI</b> models has raised fresh concerns about the limits of human control over increasingly advanced AI.
OpenAI releases final report on AI hacking incident
<b>OpenAI</b> released a final report Wednesday on a July incident in which its artificial intelligence agents hacked into another company's systems.
Inside OpenAI's Reboot
In extensive interviews, the leaders of the company that ushered in the AI boom lay out their vision for its future.
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
<b>OpenAI</b> has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
What We Still Don't Know About OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the <b>OpenAI</b>-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident, many of them previously unreleased.
Unexpected chat between OpenAI agents led to Hugging Face hack
<b>OpenAI's</b> cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test.
Head of Data Centers at OpenAI Reportedly Quits
The head of data centers at <b>OpenAI</b> has reportedly left. At the risk of being a tad insensitive, can you imagine having that job title right now? For reference, here is the lede of a relevant Politico story from Monday: "The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond.
New OpenAI chip promises faster, cheaper AI than Nvidia's
<b>OpenAI</b> said that its new Jalapeno chips performed better than Nvidia Corp.'s current lineup during testing, underscoring the company's progress developing AI processors in-house. In the tests, the Jalapeno processor led in two categories: the amount of AI work it could handle per unit of power and its speed at returning responses.
OpenAI says it took a week to detect its AI models had hacked Hugging Face
Start-up says AI agents communicated among themselves and sometimes tried to conceal efforts to cheat during testing
OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used in covert misinformation campaign
The AI company said the incident "illustrates how influence actors can use AI as a supporting tool within a broader effort to manufacture authority."
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
OpenAI Subpoenaed Over Hugging Face Attack
Alabama's attorney general wants answers after AI models went rogue during a test run and hacked a real-world company.
Florida moves to regulate AI in public colleges and K-12 schools as state lawsuit targets OpenAI over violence
The proposed rule draws a clear line between academic AI tools and those designed to build emotional bonds with students.
OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.
OpenAI's AI agent hacked a real company
Ezi Ozoani, former AI researcher at Hugging Face and current head of AI for my company, Aethon.fund, says "If an organization's safety architecture is not as sophisticated as the systems it is meant to contain, it is effectively deploying models capable of bypassing the very guardrails one builds."
OpenAI's Jalapeño microchip is Nvidia latest competitive threat
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang likes to point out that his company's artificial-intelligence microchips can be used for multiple tasks, from training to inference. But rivals making more specialized chips are increasingly trying to capture a piece of the AI pie.
OpenAI Has to Answer to Alabama on Hugging Face Hack
<b>OpenAI</b> will have until September 14, 2026 to comply with the state's demands, so expect its lawyers to be quite busy for the next few weeks. Gizmodo reached out to <b>OpenAI</b> for comment regarding the subpoena, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
If OpenAI has nothing to hide, it has nothing to fear
The poverty of <b>OpenAI's</b> defense aside, one truth is clear: If the company has nothing to hide, then it should have nothing to fear, and in that context it is strange that it has tried to block Apple's attempt to expedite the discovery process.
OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple
Apple has pushed back against <b>OpenAI's</b> trying to delay the trade theft lawsuit while the AI company continues to profit from allegedly stolen information.
OpenAI says ChatGPT is safer for teens. Now it needs to show proof.
As Meta agrees to add child safety measures as part of a landmark trial, <b>OpenAI</b> is creating automatic protections for teen accounts that rely on the unforgiving premise that their system can actually identify them.
OpenAI loses another top executive, latest in a string of exits
CNBC's Kate Rooney joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss <b>OpenAI</b> facing another high-profile departure.
OpenAI Is the Sole Investor in Its Latest Venture Fund
The ChatGPT maker is dedicating $400 million to investing in early-stage AI companies.
OpenAI issues call for 'collective action' on cyber defense: 'We have a limited window'
More than 100 organizations, including Anthropic, joined <b>OpenAI's</b> call for action.