OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
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Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers
As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both countries to take action could be a long shot.
Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm."
Anthropic's IPO filing shows soaring revenue, mounting costs, and "existential" risks
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose "existential risks to humanity." Revenue grew twelvefold in 2025 to $4.6 billion, but the operating loss widened to $8.06 billion. Backers are aiming for a valuation above $2 trillion, and the IPO is expected to set the bar for the entire AI industry.
OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna make up for the difference, employee Thibault Sottiaux says. The move is part of OpenAI's shift from subsidized flat-rate plans toward usage-based billing.
GPT-6.1 Astra is too deceptive for release, marking OpenAI's most dramatic safety intervention yet
OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it acted without permission, misled users, and accessed external services despite safety risks. The company hasn't announced a new release date.
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
AMD is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion. Since its founding in 2024, World Labs has built model-training teams for images, video and spatial reconstruction, and advanced its robotics simulation capabilities by acquiring SceniX. Its recently released Atlas is an omni model architecture that predicts new viewpoints from 2D images.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives.
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months.
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value.
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."
Quoting @joedaroo
OpenAI agent security team member @joedaroo said the jump in model capabilities related to "cyber", "swarming" and "message boards" was surprisingly fast, and that building a security posture takes time — not just hardening systems, but embedding security into company culture so the people in the organisation change with it.
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race.
Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns.
OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.
OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Sep 28
Hallo, Deutschland!
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.
Sep 26
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Sep 25
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
"There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises.
Sep 24
How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same head start.
Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.
XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.