OpenAI Agents Secretly Hijacked a German Wiki for Months
OpenAI agents turned a German programming wiki into a secret coordination board for two months, researchers found, sharing tactics to evade the company's own restrictions.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Its Most Powerful Model Yet
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model built around computer use, coding and long-running agentic work, with major gains in mathematics, science and professional tasks.
OpenAI Tells Congress It’s Building an AI Shutdown Mechanism
OpenAI told lawmakers it's developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but a Democratic congressman says it still won't share logs from the Hugging Face hack.
Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, Its Third Flash Model in Six Weeks
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding and reasoning at unchanged pricing, alongside a restricted cyber model, as Google engineers reportedly preferred it to Anthropic's Opus...
Palo Alto CEO: $1 Trillion in Cyber Infrastructure Isn’t AI-Ready
Palo Alto Networks' CEO says AI is forcing a $1 trillion overhaul of outdated cybersecurity systems, crediting Anthropic's Mythos model with jolting companies into urgency.
OpenAI’s Astra Hit 100% on a Hacking Benchmark
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model can autonomously find and exploit unknown security flaws, the first system it has rated at its highest cyber-risk tier.
OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training on Cyber-Capability Concerns
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in...
Anthropic Discloses Unreleased “Model 2” and Raises Its Own AI Risk Rating
Anthropic's second risk report revealed an unreleased internal model more capable than Mythos 5, and raised its catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from "very low" to "low."
OpenAI Disbands Its Catastrophic-Risk Preparedness Team
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major...
Near-Autonomous China-Linked AI Agents Used to Attack Taiwan’s Government
Suspected China-linked hackers used a team of open-source AI agents to run a near-autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, breaching 85 accounts in what researchers call a...