OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool…

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company,…

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model |

OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest AI model and — according to the company — its most powerful and capable one yet. OpenAI claims…

GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era

OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers…

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular…

Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

The Trump Administration just took OpenAI’s side in the artificial intelligence company’s legal battle with the New York Times. The media juggernaut sued OpenAI and…

OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

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…

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others |

Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech…

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 to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India |

4:35 AM PDT · August 27, 2026 It seems there is no escaping the ad industry. OpenAI said on Thursday that it will start showing…