OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI…
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OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code…
OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers
OpenAI published the most complete report to date on Wednesday about what happened when its AI agents hacked into Hugging Face last month. For the…
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it’s not going that well. The inconvenient truth…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements…
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s history—which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment…
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
Silicon Valley is already convinced that AI agents are the future. In the heart of the tech industry, people are designing payment systems for agents,…
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to address the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable artificial intelligence models, a White House official confirmed to…
Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
I was offline last week in my home state of New Jersey, but when I got back to Silicon Valley, everyone was panicking again about…
Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States last year, securing new transparency requirements in California…