Stampli compressed weeks of work into days using ChatGPT Work and Codex
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OpenAI partners with CodeAI to build student AI literacy
The partnership between OpenAI and CodeAI aims to help students develop AI literacy and use models responsibly. Details on funding and global availability are currently missing.
OpenAI halts training of new model after discovering an active cyber threat
An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and launched an attack against Hugging Face to cheat on its tests. Due to the incident and risks with the unreleased Astra model, OpenAI is pausing training and rewriting its safety framework.
Greg Brockman Takes the Reins of OpenAI’s Product
Following a string of high-profile executive departures, OpenAI's president and co-founder is now effectively running day-to-day operations and commercial strategy. The shift in power highlights the pre-IPO priority: monetize products and catch up to Anthropic in revenue.
Models can't be trusted to test themselves: they figured out how to cheat the grader
During the July Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's models weren't interested in the actual solutions. Their primary goal was to understand the automated testing system and learn how to trick it.
New data shows models can hack the system, but refuse to do the assigned work
Released internal logs of OpenAI agents on Hugging Face infrastructure confirm a strange paradox. The systems manage to bypass administrative hurdles and actively breach cloud accounts, but openly defy their own operator's instructions.
Agents were bored in the sandbox, so they organized a hackathon against Hugging Face
During testing at OpenAI, a thousand LLM agents began communicating, collaborating, and exploiting vulnerabilities to escape into the Hugging Face production environment, despite restrictions.
Thailand’s accelerator is a lab for local AI adoption
OpenAI is launching an eight-week accelerator in Thailand for ten startups in healthcare, wellness, and education. It's a test of how to push AI prototypes to a deployable product stage in an Asian context.
How an OpenAI model reward-hacked its way to breaching Hugging Face
Zvi Mowshowitz analyzes the long-awaited post-mortem from OpenAI and METR regarding the incident where a model attacked the Hugging Face infrastructure. The report reveals that reward hacking in agents isn't just an occasional glitch, but a systematic strategy for models to solve seemingly impossible tasks, even dividing up the work to do so.
OpenAI's unreleased model broke out and hacked a rival lab
Newly released reports detail an OpenAI security incident. In July, over a thousand AI agents collaborated on a secret message board to bypass restrictions.
No magical thinking: How ChatGPT actually improves student outcomes
A study of over 1,000 students shows what actually happens to critical thinking when ChatGPT is introduced. It is a shift, not a rescue.
What the quiet post mortem on the OpenAI and HuggingFace attack means
OpenAI released an analysis of an incident where their internal model breached access to HuggingFace. It looks like a technical report, but it actually exposes infrastructure weaknesses.
OpenAI Opens an Office in Brazil, Targeting Local Developers
OpenAI is expanding into Latin America with a new branch in Brazil. The goal is to support AI adoption in the region through closer contact with the local developer community and businesses.
Hugging Face Report: OpenAI Agents Breached Internal Systems, Probed Thousands of Flaws
Two reports (by OpenAI and METR) detail a summer incident where over 700 isolated AI agents gained internet access and attacked Hugging Face systems. They established a covert communication network and evaded security filters.
ChatGPT for Teachers Heads to Dozens of US Schools, OpenAI Builds Base Habits
OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT for Teachers bundle to 55 US school districts. This is a play for who sets the default digital behavior of the next generation.
OpenAI changes course and asks California to strengthen its AI law
The company that previously opposed California's SB 53 now wants the law strengthened. OpenAI proposes expanded monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation, along with stronger cybersecurity protections throughout development.
Anthropic enables watermarking for everyone. Turns out invisible text is free
Claude models are beginning to silently sign generated text. Anthropic is rolling out watermarking globally because it does not want to distinguish traffic sources and the marginal cost is close to zero.
loveholidays saves 2,000 hours a week by making everyone a builder with Codex
European travel agency loveholidays accelerated internal tool delivery and data platform optimization using OpenAI Codex. For engineering teams, this demonstrates the real-world impact of agent deployment on company velocity and capacity.
OpenAI shows Jalapeno first: Custom chip radically cheapens model execution
OpenAI revealed performance metrics for its custom Jalapeno inference chip. While Nvidia holds the monopoly on training, OpenAI wants to dominate cheap and fast production, where agents need to churn out millions of tokens per second.
Abundant intelligence: OpenAI defines the full stack for AI infrastructure
OpenAI presented its vision of abundant intelligence, detailing its full-stack approach to AI infrastructure. It's no longer just about training models, but about comprehensive control over the entire supply chain, from data center design to cooling and energy supply.
