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OpenAI Filing Signals Next Phase of AI Growth
OpenAI has confidentially filed draft registration paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, taking a major step toward a potential initial public offering and setting up what could become one of the largest technology market debuts in history. The ChatGPT maker confirmed the filing on June 8 but did not provide a timeline for…
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OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Account Security Controls
OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft
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OpenAI is locking down parts of ChatGPT to reduce data theft risks
OpenAI has started rolling out Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT, an optional security setting that restricts access to external resources and several product capabilities. It is available for personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, as well as self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts. “Lockdown Mode is not intended for everyone. It is designed for people…
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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go,…
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U.S. Officials Discuss Taking Financial Stakes in AI Industry
The talks have been with artificial-intelligence leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who pitched the idea.
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OpenAI responds to White House executive order on AI governance
OpenAI has proposed mandatory federal evaluations of the most capable AI models before public release while arguing that regulators should stop short of deciding whether those systems can be deployed, staking out a middle ground in the debate over how frontier AI should be governed. The company’s proposal came a day after the White House…
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OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5, as it plans to retire legacy ChatGPT models
OpenAI says it’s rolling out a new update that improves the existing GPT-5.5 Instant model, and this move comes ahead of the scheduled retirement of multiple legacy models, including o3. […]
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Attack targeting OpenAI Codex users exposes AI software supply chain risks
A malicious npm package posing as a remote user interface for OpenAI Codex exfiltrated developer authentication tokens, after attackers allegedly published code to npm that was not visible in the project’s public GitHub repository. Researchers at Aikido said the package, called codexui-android, appeared to offer legitimate functionality while collecting authentication tokens and sending them to…
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OpenAI brings frontier AI to existing AWS environments
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS, giving customers access to OpenAI capabilities within AWS environments and the controls needed to move more quickly from evaluation to deployment. OpenAI capabilities on Amazon Bedrock These capabilities are available through OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock, a platform for building generative AI applications and agents…
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OpenAI requires stronger authentication for users of its most powerful AI models
Yubico announced its significant role in securing the AI frontier as OpenAI mandates the use of passkeys for individuals that are part of their Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program. As a leading global AI research and development company, OpenAI is setting a precedent for empowering its users to take control of their own security…
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27,000-Download Codex UI Tool Secretly Stole OpenAI Refresh Tokens
A malicious Codex UI npm package with 27,000 weekly downloads was caught exfiltrating OpenAI refresh tokens, exposing developers to account takeover risks.
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ChatGPT share links abused to host fake outage pages to deliver malware
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT’s content-sharing feature to display fake OpenAI outage pages that direct users to download malware disguised as the ChatGPT desktop application. […]
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ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant’s implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed ChatGPhish by Permiso Security. “The chatgpt.com response renderer trusts Markdown links and Markdown
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OpenAI heralds cybersecurity, election interference safeguard plans for 2026 midterms
OpenAI on Wednesday hailed its plans to safeguard information and aid cybersecurity defenders in the 2026 midterm elections, including work to combat deepfakes and other forms of artificial intelligence misuse. The announcement builds on commitments from major tech companies in 2024, including OpenAI, to protect elections from AI-infused election interference — efforts that some thought…
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What an OpenAI IPO Might Mean for the Channel
OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), a move that could significantly impact both the consumer AI market and the channel ecosystem as we know it. As the company behind arguably the world’s most recognizable AI platform, OpenAI’s transition into a publicly traded company could unlock new opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams…
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The Art of War, Elon Musk Edition: How to Lose a Lawsuit and Still Claim Victory
Sam Altman’s high-profile courtroom win comes at a cost for the OpenAI CEO.
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Who Owns the Future of AI?
Plus, what to look for in a used EV, Anthropic’s AI lead, the Cerebras IPO, the OpenAI lottery tickets and the most AI-proof jobs in tech.
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OpenAI hit by supply chain attack linked to malicious TanStack packages
OpenAI said the TanStack supply chain attack compromised two employee devices and exposed credentials from code repositories. OpenAI confirmed that the recent TanStack supply chain attack compromised two employee devices and exposed credential material stored in internal source code repositories. The incident began after the TeamPCP hacking group abused weaknesses in the package publishing process…
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The Messy Courtroom Drama Over AI’s Biggest Breakup
The legal showdown between Elon Musk and OpenAI exposed the personal and financial fault lines beneath Silicon Valley’s defining boom.
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TanStack Supply Chain Attack Hits Two OpenAI Employee Devices, Forces macOS Updates
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its employee devices in its corporate environment were impacted via the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack on TanStack, but noted that no user data, production systems, or intellectual property were compromised or modified in an unauthorized manner. “Upon identification of the malicious activity, we worked quickly to investigate, contain,…
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OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack
OpenAI says two employees’ devices were breached in the recent TanStack supply chain attack that impacted hundreds of npm and PyPI packages, causing the company to rotate code-signing certificates for its applications as a precaution. […]
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Closing Statements Begin in Musk Trial Over OpenAI Founding, Leadership
The world’s richest man testified that OpenAI allegedly “stole a charity” in its for-profit conversion, while Sam Altman defended the change as essential for raising funds for AI.
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Closing Statements Begin in Musk Trial Over OpenAI Founding, Leadership
The world’s richest man testified that OpenAI allegedly “stole a charity” in for-profit conversion, while Sam Altman defended the change as essential for raising funds for AI.
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Daybreak is OpenAI’s answer to the AI arms race in cybersecurity
OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that combines the company’s large language models with its Codex agentic framework to help organizations identify, patch, and validate software vulnerabilities across the development lifecycle. The platform is built around three model tiers: GPT-5.5 for general-purpose use, GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber for verified defensive security workflows,…
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OpenAI DeployCo Expands Enterprise AI Services Push
OpenAI is moving further into the part of AI adoption that tends to be slower, more complicated, and a lot less visible than model launches. The company has launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, or DeployCo, a new unit backed by more than $4 billion from a mix of private equity firms and consulting players, including…
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Embattled Commissioner Makary to Leave FDA
Plus, Sam Altman testifies in Elon Musk’s OpenAI trial, and “Subway Takes” has what it takes.
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OpenAI Launches ‘Daybreak’ to Help Build Secure By Design Software
With Daybreak, OpenAI wants its frontier AI models to be used to deploy secure by design software from the ground up
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OpenAI introduces Daybreak cyber platform, takes on Anthropic Mythos
OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its answer to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, amid a growing market for frontier AI-powered cyber defense platforms. The initiative combines OpenAI’s large language models, Codex’s agentic capabilities, and integrations with the broader enterprise security ecosystem. The company said Daybreak is focused on accelerating cyber defense operations and enabling organizations to secure software…
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OpenAI introduces Daybreak cyber platform, takes on Anthropic Mythos
OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its answer to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, amid a growing market for frontier AI-powered cyber defense platforms. The initiative combines OpenAI’s large language models, Codex’s agentic capabilities, and integrations with the broader enterprise security ecosystem. The company said Daybreak is focused on accelerating cyber defense operations and enabling organizations to secure software…
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OpenAI’s Daybreak uses Codex Security to identify risky attack paths
OpenAI Daybreak is the company’s cybersecurity initiative focused on building AI-assisted software defense into the development process from the start. It combines OpenAI models, Codex Security, and cyber-focused GPT-5.5 variants to help organizations identify, validate, and prioritize software vulnerabilities. How Daybreak identifies exploitable vulnerabilities Daybreak builds editable threat models from a company’s code repository, analyzes…
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OpenAI Launches Daybreak for AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation
OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative that brings together frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capabilities and Codex Security to help organizations identify and patch vulnerabilities before attackers find a way in using the same issues. “Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners…
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Microsoft CEO Takes Stand in Third Week of Elon Musk Megatrial Against OpenAI
Satya Nadella is expected to testify about Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and the company’s support of Sam Altman.
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Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being removed, raising fresh concerns about how enterprises source and validate AI models from public repositories. The repository, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, impersonated OpenAI’s legitimate Privacy Filter release, copied its model card almost word-for-word, and included…
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The Secret Diary That Has Spilled Into the Musk vs. OpenAI Feud
The personal journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company’s battle with the world’s richest man—and the most human part of a trial between tech billionaires
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OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through its Trusted Access for Cyber program. Trusted Access for Cyber is OpenAI’s identity and trust-based access framework for cybersecurity users, designed to give verified defenders broader access to GPT-5.5’s cybersecurity capabilities for defensive…
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OpenAI and Yubico Partner to Bring Custom Phishing-Resistant YubiKeys to OpenAI Users
OpenAI and Yubico Partner to Bring Custom Phishing-Resistant YubiKeys to OpenAI Users. Security coverage from iTWire.
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OpenAI To Extend Cyber Program to Government Agencies
OpenAI announced its intention to expand the Trusted Access for Cyber program for cyber defenders at the federal, state and local government levels
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The Lore of Sam Altman Is Being Tested Like Never Before
Pressure on the OpenAI CEO is mounting as the onetime AI front-runner prepares for a public offering.
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Elon Musk Takes The Stand for a Third Day in Lawsuit Against Sam Altman
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Musk’s fixer, Jared Birchall, are also expected to testify on Thursday.
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OpenAI Growth Miss Rattles AI Chip and Cloud Stocks
A report that OpenAI missed internal growth targets was enough to shake confidence up and down the AI supply chain this week, sending chip and cloud stocks lower and raising new questions about how fast the market is actually expanding. Shares of Nvidia fell more than 3%, while AMD dropped even further before recovering slightly…
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AWS unveils trio of key AI strategy announcements
AWS on Tuesday announced an expansion of its partnership with OpenAI and launched a major new agentic AI push with the introduction of a new desktop app for Amazon Quick, a personal AI assistant, and an expansion of Amazon Connect from a single product into four distinct offerings. News of the enhanced partnership comes 24…
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Microsoft, OpenAI change contract terms–again
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday again revised their agreement, softening their exclusivity and revenue-sharing conditions in the process. These changes underscore how critical it is for enterprises to work with as many AI vendors as practical, given the leapfrogging performance stats as well as the constantly shifting alliances. Both OpenAI and Microsoft issued their own…
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Workers Sue $10 Billion AI Startup for Collecting and Exposing Personal Data
Mercor, which has worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, says it disputes the allegations.
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OpenAI Taps Former Google Cloud Lead for Partnerships Role
Former Google Cloud channel executive Colleen Kapase has joined OpenAI as VP of strategic global partnerships and ecosystems, bringing a seasoned partner leader to the AI vendor as it expands its enterprise go-to-market efforts. Kapase disclosed the move Tuesday after leaving Google Cloud in March, where she led channel partnerships during a broader revamp of…
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Codex can now operate between apps. Where are the boundaries?
OpenAI is rolling out a major update to the Codex desktop app for users signed in with ChatGPT. Personalization features, including context-aware suggestions and memory, will roll out to Enterprise, Edu, and users in the EU and UK soon. Computer use is initially available on macOS and will expand to EU and UK users in…
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber to Boost Defensive Cybersecurity
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model built to help defenders analyze malware and fix software bugs. The company is also expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified experts.
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Behind the Mythos hype, Glasswing has just one confirmed CVE
Efforts to cut through the buzz surrounding Anthropic’s Mythos are emerging. As OpenAI moves to counter the hype around it with its own cybersecurity model, VulnCheck is reporting that the model’s publicly attributable output amounts to just one confirmed CVE. While Project Glasswing, the controlled access program for Mythos, promises a powerful offensive capability, gated…
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OpenAI pulls out of a second Stargate data center deal
In the space of one week, OpenAI has pulled out of two European Stargate data center deals, one in the UK and the second in Norway. Observers attribute the move to the company taking a more disciplined approach to its massive expenses, with OpenAI executives trying to make their books look better in a common…
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OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber program with new GPT 5.4 Cyber model
OpenAI said it is expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber program to “thousands of individuals and organizations,” who will use the company’s technology to root out bugs and vulnerabilities in their products. The program will also incorporate GPT 5.4 Cyber, a new variant of ChatGPT that OpenAI says is specifically optimized for cybersecurity tasks. OpenAI’s…
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber with Expanded Access for Security Teams
OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber, a variant of its latest flagship model, GPT‑5.4, that’s specifically optimized for defensive cybersecurity use cases, days after rival Anthropic unveiled its own frontier model, Mythos. “The progressive use of AI accelerates defenders – those responsible for keeping systems, data, and users safe – enabling them to find and fix problems
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Nvidia’s Stephen Jones on the toolkit powering GPUs: ‘A wild ride’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software…
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OpenAI’s Mac apps needs an update thanks to the Axios hack
OpenAI updated its security certificates and is requiring all macOS users to update to the latest versions after determining its products, along with many others, were impacted by a widespread supply-chain attack that briefly infected a popular open-source library in late March, the company said in a blog post Friday. The artificial intelligence vendor said…
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OpenAI Rotates macOS Certificates Following Axios Supply Chain Breach
OpenAI rotates macOS certificates after downloading a compromised Axios version, urging users to update apps before revoked certificates are blocked in May 2026.
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OpenAI rotates macOS certs after Axios attack hit code-signing workflow
OpenAI is rotating potentially exposed macOS code-signing certificates after a GitHub Actions workflow executed a malicious Axios package during a recent supply chain attack. […]
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ChatGPT rolls out new $100 Pro subscription to challenge Claude
OpenAI has rolled out a new Pro subscription that costs $100 and is in line with Claude’s pricing, which also has a $100 subscription, in addition to the $200 Max monthly plan. […]
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Elon Musk Asks for OpenAI’s Nonprofit to Get Any Damages From His Lawsuit
Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman‘s removal from OpenAI nonprofit’s board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion.
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OpenAI calls for a four-day workweek — and a ‘robot tax’
OpenAI has released a new policy paper outlining several proposals to address the economic consequences of rapid AI development. The document comes amid growing concerns that AI could quickly take over job roles and fundamentally transform entire industries. Among the proposals is a public wealth fund, in which the government and AI companies would invest…
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OpenAI opens applications for an external AI safety research fellowship
OpenAI is accepting applications for a paid fellowship program that will fund external researchers to work on safety and alignment questions related to advanced AI systems. The program, called the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, runs from September 14, 2026 through February 5, 2027. Applications close May 3, with successful applicants notified by July 25. The fellowship…
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Microsoft builds its own AI stack to help wean it from its reliance on OpenAI
Microsoft seems to be meeting OpenAI on its own turf, even as it continues its strategic partnership with the AI darling, with the release of three in-house, commercially-available AI models. MAI-Transcribe-1 (for speech transcription), MAI-Voice-1 (for voice generation), and MAI-Image-2 (for image creation) are now available on Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground. These new…
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What Happens When AI Agents Go Rogue?
Cybersecurity takes a back seat in AI race, while OpenAI makes a tough call with Sora
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ChatGPT Security Issue Enabled Data Theft via Single Prompt
OpenAI has patched vulnerability, which Check Point said was because of a DNS loophole
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OpenAI patches twin leaks as Codex slips and ChatGPT spills
OpenAI has fixed two flaws in its AI stack that could allow AI agents to move sensitive data in unintended ways. The issues, disclosed by researchers at BeyondTrust and Check Point Research, affect the OpenAI Codex coding agent and ChatGPT’s code execution environment, respectively. One enabled GitHub token theft through command injection, while the other…
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OpenAI Codex Vulnerability Allowed Attackers to Steal GitHub Tokens
OpenAI Codex vulnerability allowed attackers to steal GitHub tokens via malicious branch names using hidden Unicode command injection flaw.
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OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability
A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. “A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration channel, leaking user messages, uploaded files, and other sensitive content,” the cybersecurity company said in
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The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT
Sam Altman hoped Sora would turn OpenAI into a creative pioneer. Instead, it looks like an expensive strategic miscalculation.
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The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI
Unhealed personal wounds and past power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world now encounters the technology.
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The ‘AI slop’ backlash kills Sora
OpenAI just killed Sora. That’s an amazing development. When the company rolled out the video-creation site, and later the app, reviewers called it a trailblazer because it combined video creations with sound effects, spoken dialog, and the ability for users to generate a specific character using a reference image and reuse them in multiple videos…
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OpenAI’s Sora exit signals enterprise-first AI shift
OpenAI has discontinued its AI video generation platform Sora. The company announced the development in a sudden and unexpected post on X, stating that it was “saying goodbye” to the Sora app. “We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What…
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OpenAI’s Foundation play reframes the AI roadmap for IT leaders
OpenAI’s non-profit arm has revealed its plans to tackle “humanity’s hardest problems.” The OpenAI Foundation has announced a sweeping range of investment and research goals, from building safeguards around how AI behaves in the wild to pushing for shared data ecosystems and funding disease research. The stated roadmap could serve as a blueprint for how…
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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Library to store your personal files
OpenAI is rolling out a new feature called ‘Library’ for ChatGPT, which allows you to store your personal files or images on OpenAI’s cloud storage, so you can reference those items in a future chat. […]
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OpenAI Tries To Untangle Its Own Product Line with ‘Sperapp’
OpenAI is apparently doing some badly-needed spring cleaning. After a steady run of adding new tools and features, the company is now building a desktop app to gather them all in one place and make the whole thing feel a little less scattered. The fragmentation issues at the heart of Sperapp’s development Over the past…
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OpenAI to double workforce, highlights growing demand for enterprise AI talent
OpenAI is planning to almost double its workforce from about 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026. The move comes as OpenAI sharpens its focus on scaling and monetising ChatGPT for enterprise use amid intensifying competition from Anthropic and Google. Hiring is expected across product development, engineering, research, and sales, along with roles…
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OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?
OpenAI is reportedly planning to fold its ChatGPT application, Codex coding platform, and AI-powered browser into a single desktop ‘superapp’, a move that signals a shift toward enterprise and developer audiences and away from the consumer market that made the company a household name. The unified product will merge the ChatGPT interface, the Codex coding…
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training
Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, claiming the generative AI (genAI) firm used their encyclopedia and dictionary texts to train AI models such as ChatGPT without permission, according to Reuters. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles from Britannica’s material and claims ChatGPT can reproduce content almost verbatim, which risks reducing…
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Nvidia’s Super Bowl Plays to the Crowd
Plus, OpenAI cuts side projects and Oracle’s performance obligations
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OpenAI says ChatGPT ads are not rolling out globally for now
OpenAI told BleepingComputer that ChatGPT ads on Free and Go plans are not yet rolling out outside the United States, even though some users noticed references to ads in the updated privacy policy. […]
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OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo to strengthen AI agent security testing
OpenAI said it plans to acquire AI testing startup Promptfoo, a move aimed at strengthening security checks for AI agents as enterprises move toward deploying autonomous systems in business workflows. Promptfoo’s tools allow developers to test LLM applications against adversarial prompts, including prompt injection and jailbreak attempts, and to evaluate whether models follow safety and…
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OpenAI to acquire AI security platform Promptfoo
OpenAI are acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development. Once the acquisition is finalized, OpenAI will integrate Promptfoo’s technology directly into OpenAI Frontier, their platform for building and operating AI coworkers. As enterprises deploy AI coworkers into real workflows, evaluation, security, and compliance become…
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OpenAI joins the race in AI-assisted code security
OpenAI introduced Codex Security, an AI agent that reviews codebases to find, verify, and help fix software vulnerabilities. The launch comes a few weeks after rival Anthropic unveiled its Claude Code Security tool. The feature is available in research preview via Codex Web for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers, with free access for…
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AI Needs Management Consultants After All
OpenAI, Anthropic strike deals with consulting firms to spread artificial intelligence through the business world.
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OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet domestic spying and the use of artificial intelligence to order lethal military strikes. Just don’t expect any proof. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the company’s big win with the Defense Department in a post on…
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OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues
OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex web with free usage for the next month. “It builds deep context…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up
In the midst of recent developments and controversies surrounding a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, OpenAI released the GPT-5.4 model. The release comes at a time when users are reportedly leaving ChatGPT for rival chatbots, particularly Anthropic’s Claude. GPT-5.4 is rolling out gradually across ChatGPT and Codex and is available through the API…
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Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI
CEO’s comments come as OpenAI has drawn criticism over its Pentagon deal; “This process has some deep flaws.”
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Canada Says OpenAI CEO Altman Pledged to Toughen Safety Protocols
Canada says OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen safety protocols regarding notifying police about potentially suspicious use of the company’s ChatGPT chatbot.
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OpenAI Updates ChatGPT with GPT-5.3 Instant Model
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, a new version of the model that powers much of the day-to-day ChatGPT experience. The focus this time is something more practical than just reasoning benchmarks; it’s focused on improving reliability, response speed, and conversational quality. OpenAI promises a 26 percent reduction in hallucinations According to OpenAI, GPT-5.3 Instant reduces…
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OpenAI says its US defense deal is safer than Anthropic’s, but is it?
OpenAI has struck a deal to supply the US government with AI services, announcing it hours after US President Donald Trump’s decision on Friday to ban its AI rival Anthropic from all US government contracts. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said of the negotiation, “It was definitely rushed, and the optics don’t look good,” in…
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Amazon Leads Massive OpenAI Capital and Compute Deal
OpenAI just announced that it has raised $110 billion in a single private funding round, led by Amazon with significant contributions from Nvidia and SoftBank. The deal values the company at roughly $840 billion after the investment, according to Reuters. Amazon’s $50 billion followed by $30 billion each from NVIDIA and SoftBank The breakdown is…
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Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
The allegations mirror those made by OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve AI models.
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OpenAI partners with consulting giants to deploy enterprise AI agents
As it bids to push further into the enterprise, OpenAI announced Monday that it has partnered with several large consulting firms. Frontier Alliances, as the partner initiative is called, will involve work with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, and McKinsey & Co. The multi-year partnerships will “help customers define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows,…
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With ‘Frontier,’ OpenAI hopes to own the enterprise agent stack
With its new Frontier platform, announced earlier this month, OpenAI is looking to position itself as the best option for managing enterprise AI agents. But to succeed, the company that delivered the popular ChatGPT in 2022 will need to show it can manage the complexity of large-scale agent deployments — and do so better than …
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This Viral AI Project Went From Side Hustle to Coveted Prize in Three Months
After a fierce competition between the biggest AI labs, OpenAI hired the creator of the viral OpenClaw personal AI assistant platform.
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Elon Musk Pushes AI to Be ‘Unhinged,’ Former Employees Say
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google race to fortify their AI guardrails, Elon Musk appears to be loosening his. Former xAI insiders say the billionaire is pushing to make his chatbot “more unhinged,” framing safety measures as censorship rather than protection. According to employees who spoke anonymously, the company’s dedicated safety function has effectively been dismantled,…
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OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder as AI agent race intensifies
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant, to spearhead development of what CEO Sam Altman describes as “the next generation of personal agents.” The move comes weeks after OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, achieved explosive popularity despite security researchers warning of serious vulnerabilities in the open-source tool.…
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ChatGPT gets new security feature to fight prompt injection attacks
OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help users and organizations reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks and other advanced security threats, particularly when using features that interact with external systems. Limiting tool access to prevent data exfiltration Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT is an optional, advanced security setting for…
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OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a real-time coding model
OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex. It is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the latest versions of the Codex app, the command-line interface, and the VS Code extension. The model delivers over 1,000 tokens per second when served on ultra-low-latency hardware while remaining capable…
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The AI Gold Rush Is Breaking a Silicon Valley Taboo: Cashing Out Before the IPO
Companies from Stripe to OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and SpaceX are increasingly giving employees the ability to sell some of their shares.
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OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated document is longer, with dedicated sections for data controls and practical resources. It explains key controls and settings within the text, making available choices easier to understand without moving between documents. “This…
AI, EU, Europe, Global Security News, News, openai, Policy, privacy
OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated document is longer, with dedicated sections for data controls and practical resources. It explains key controls and settings within the text, making available choices easier to understand without moving between documents. “This…