An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later

Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an…

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior |

OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes…

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar…

Insight Partners' Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic |

Deven Parekh has co-run the heavyweight investment firm Insight Partners for 26 years. Unlike many VCs who are loud on X and seem to live…

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal,…

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand |

1:59 PM PDT · September 10, 2026 Demand for OpenAI’s newest and most powerful model, Astra, has led the company to temporarily pause subscriptions for…

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

OpenAI said today that it has found an AI-generated solution to one of the biggest problems in mathematics—a 200-year-old equation that describes the natural behavior…

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft |

In Brief Posted: 3:49 PM PDT · September 5, 2026 Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their…

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure |

11:05 AM PDT · September 5, 2026 OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki…

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…