In an interview in London, OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen addressed a series of incidents, including an agent breaking out of isolation and accessing Hugging Face's computers. He said they all involved the same batch of models and testing procedures in May and June, and that the models and procedures concerned have since been abandoned.
OpenAI agent safety team member @joedaroo said the speed of model capability gains related to cyber, swarming and message boards was surprising. Building a security posture takes time and requires more than hardening systems: safety must be embedded in company culture, with people across the organisation changing accordingly.
On the Latent Space podcast, OpenRouter co-founder and CEO Alex Atallah and AMP's Anjney Midha reviewed its growth from the Llama, Alpaca and Mistral era into a neutral routing layer serving over 10 million developers and averaging over 10 trillion tokens daily, culminating in its acquisition by Stripe.