Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
…No one has more to lose from this reputation crisis than OpenAI. The person tasked with trying to fix it is Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief of global affairs and a veteran…
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
…The attacks are, as OpenAI’s security boss said last year, an “unsolved security problem.” And, as security researchers have repeatedly warned while picking holes in the tools, long-standing web security…
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
…It is unclear why OpenAI felt compelled to spell this out for Codex—or indeed why its models might want to discuss goblins or pigeons in the first place. The company did…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…At the time, OpenAI was training its first so-called reasoning model, o1, which could work through a problem step by step before delivering an answer. At launch, OpenAI said the model…
OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts
…Crucially, when a user turns on Advanced Account Security, they can no longer seek help from OpenAI's support team for account recovery, because support no longer has access or control over…
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company's models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government
…Signatories of the brief include Google DeepMind researchers Zhengdong Wang, Alexander Matt Turner, and Noah Siegel, as well as OpenAI researchers Gabriel Wu, Pamela Mishkin, and Roman Novak, among others. Amicus briefs…
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislative strategy. Until now, OpenAI has largely played defense, opposing bills that could have made AI labs liable for their technology’s…
Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
…One of the letter’s signatories and coauthors is a new nonprofit called Guidelight AI Standards, which was cofounded by former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler and former OpenAI policy adviser Page…