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…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide |

In Brief Posted: 12:41 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working…

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns |

3:48 PM PDT · August 7, 2026 OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal…

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details…

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok |

In Brief Posted: 3:47 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out…

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…

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the launch of Nvidia’s splashy alliance to push for open-source AI security alongside companies like Microsoft, SpaceX,…

The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in…

Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models

Leah Feiger: I do. The last few days, this has popped up. You’re like, “I’ve been hearing them.” It’s like, “Oop, Zoë, your invoice is…

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the AI research…