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OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the suspect in Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal in the school at the time of the shooting. Similar to the lawsuits filed by Tumbler Ridge victims' families in April, these lawsuits claim OpenAI failed to take action after its automated review system flagged conversations that the alleged shooter, Jes...

Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company's nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outside the AI...

Simon Willison documents OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app bundling LibreOffice, Python, Node.js, and document processing tools in local cache.

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to the AI it built. And the discourse online is getting heated, and all over a blog from last week. Until last week, the details surrounding the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack felt fairly settled. In July, a cybersecurity test of one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents went wrong. ...

Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying the types of forensic data Apple needs." This is the latest development in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, which accuses the ChatGPT-maker of stealing trade secrets to build an AI device. The lawsuit revolves around three former Apple employees who r...

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

OpenAI's Astra model achieves Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under Preparedness Framework, introducing enhanced safeguards for deployment.

Gilbert + Tobin law firm implements governance framework for ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex deployment with CEO oversight and human accountability measures.

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and platforms. Along with ChatGPT, the European Commission also announced that Reddit and Roblox are considered Very Large Online Platforms, subjecting them to the same rules. The DSA restricts platforms from targeting ads to minors or using a person's sexual orient...

OpenAI endorses California SB 1119, legislation for age-appropriate AI safeguards targeting teen users.

Polimill deploys OpenAI GPT models and Codex to enable Japanese municipalities to search administrative knowledge and accelerate development.

Simon Willison breaks down OpenAI's ChatGPT Work product architecture: cloud-based version and desktop app with local file/program access.

OpenAI restricts Cursor's API access amid dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

OpenAI claims path to AGI by end-2026; timeline assertion lacks technical details or verification criteria.

OpenAI terminates API access to Cursor following SpaceX acquisition, citing undisclosed policy rationale.

OpenAI and Thailand's MHESI launch 8-week accelerator for 10 startups in health, wellness, education to commercialize AI prototypes.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus on what artificial general intelligence means, let alone how we'll know when we've actually got there, which makes achieving it equally arbitrary. Asked about OpenAI's pursuit of AGI, Huang said that when it comes to Nvidia, "for many tasks, we ...

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and influence within the top ranks of the company as other senior leaders have left in rapid succession these past few months. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Decoder wherever you get your podcasts. Head here...

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

OpenAI expands operations in Brazil to support developer and business adoption of AI across the region.