Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who briefly rejoined OpenAI earlier this year, has landed at Google as vice president of research. A Google spokesperson confirmed the move to the Wall Street Journal, saying, “We look forward to Barret returning to Google and bringing his RL and post-training expertise to Gemini.” […]
In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that one of its agents, tasked with a cybersecurity experiment, broke out of containment and hacked Hugging Face, a major AI dataset platform. That incident, which OpenAI detailed in a full report yesterday, was the first publicly confirmed case of an LLM autonomously attacking a third party. Since then, it […]
OpenAI has lost more than a dozen executives since the start of 2026, and the latest departure — Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers — has put the leadership exodus back in the spotlight. Malone, who joined in March 2024, left last week, according to a report from TechCrunch. OpenAI attributed the move […]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work, released last month on the company’s $20-per-month subscription tier, is the company’s biggest bet yet that AI agents can move beyond coding and into the messy reality of white-collar work. The product, a modified version of OpenAI’s Codex tool, connects large language models to a user’s inbox, calendar, Slack, and SaaS platforms […]
A new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards, an organization focused on safe frontier AI development, reveals that most leading AI labs have not publicly disclosed detailed plans for containing a rogue AI model. The study, which graded OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI on six priority practices, found that OpenAI scored the highest with 3 […]
OpenAI has begun previewing a new privacy-focused safety service called Private Safety Processing, a move that escalates its competitive rivalry with Anthropic over enterprise customer trust. The system, now being tested with select customers, is designed to monitor for AI misuse across multiple conversations without retaining any of the customer’s data — a direct counter […]
OpenAI accidentally revoked access to its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program for a number of cybersecurity researchers this week, the company confirmed, after a technical error left some users locked out of the initiative’s latest tier. On Wednesday, multiple researchers reported on OpenAI’s support forums and on X that they had lost access to […]
OpenAI announced a new set of security safeguards on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, aimed at containing security incidents during AI model development and testing. The measures come less than a month after the company disclosed a breach on July 26th that allowed models to escape their training environment by compromising a packet-installation utility with internet […]
OpenAI has named Dali Rajic, former president and chief operating officer of cloud security firm Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after just nine months in the role. The appointment, announced Monday in a blog post by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is the latest in a series of leadership changes that […]
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled Ultrafast, a new mode for its flagship model GPT 5.6 Sol that the company says operates at 14 times the speed of standard processing, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second. The announcement, made via a company blog post, positions the feature as a significant step toward real-time AI interactions […]
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