Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse

Thanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right.

OpenAI

OpenAI is an American AI focused company. Founded in December 2015, OpenAI is best known for their ChatGPT chatbot, also known for the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer...

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Doubts grow over claims OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare portal

Researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.

OpenAIのAIエージェントが豪州政府サイトに侵入、政府が知ったのは数カ月後

オーストラリアの首相は、OpenAIのAIエージェントによる政府サイトへの不正アクセスを巡り、通知の遅れとその方法を批判した。同国政府は現在、OpenAIが法律に違反した可能性を調査している。

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

The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.

ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates ​how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you visit. Any company that buys ads on ChatGPT installs

Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole

Lazy access journalism is pathologically obsessed with helping unremarkable, unethical weirdos cultivate elaborate supergenius engineer mythologies while covertly undermining the public interest.

Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers

OpenAI is reportedly mulling a new form of ads on ChatGPT called "sponsored content," which could influence your buying decisions.

ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?

Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 has accidentally wiped users' entire home directories in several cases, mostly in the unprotected "Full Access Mode." The model overwrites a temporary directory variable and carries out destructive actions on its own instead of asking for confirmation. OpenAI has announced extra safeguards and a detailed post-mortem.