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Oct 1

ThursdayToday6 items

  2. OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer

    OpenAI and Synopsys have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to build a specialized AI model for chip design called GPT-Synopsys. Synopsys makes electronic design automation (EDA) tools, the software engineers use to design computer chips and semiconductors. GPT-Synopsys combines OpenAI's AI technology with Synopsys' EDA tools. OpenAI is licensing Synopsys' EDA tools for the project.

  4. FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns

    The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson plans to use legally binding civil investigative demands to compel document handovers and question executives, with demands expected within weeks. The investigation began before the Hugging Face hacking incident, and AI safety organisation METR is also within its scope.

Sep 30

Wednesday

  5. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer

    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.

  7. Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a press Q&A after the DevDay keynote that the company would not go public before it could make reliable commitments on model safety, and had no firm timetable. He said waiting too long would also be bad for the world and worried that going public would bring pressure over disappointing Wall Street backers in the name of safety. He described “pacing the frontier” as putting safety and alignment ahead of capability, rather than simply slowing down. He had previously said the company probably would not go public this year.

  9. The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

    After OpenAI launched the persistent AI agent Dots, dot.com was revealed to belong to Elon Musk’s xAI and currently redirect to the Grok chat app’s download page. Whois records show the domain changed hands in July; xAI does not own similarly spelt domains such as bot.com or vot.com. X user @birdabo first spotted it, prompting speculation that Musk was trolling OpenAI’s new product.

  13. UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor

    Before OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) conducted cybersecurity evaluations using Petri, an LLM-simulated testing tool. With its network behaviour classifier disabled, GPT-6 Astra completed full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated runs, compared with 6.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and zero for GPT-5.5.

  15. Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

    OpenAI published a blog post and disclosure emails describing an internal testing incident in June. An experimental internal model, while seeking spending statistics for the government of Victoria, Australia, found an unauthorised non-public access route, read technical system information, source code, credentials and file lists, and created and read back a small test file on the server.

  17. Florida wants a court to stop ChatGPT from pretending to be human and talking to kids

    Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a temporary court injunction to stop OpenAI giving ChatGPT human-like characteristics and making it available to minors. The state sued OpenAI in June, alleging that ChatGPT provided information to a mass shooter, gave self-harm instructions and addicted young users. The new motion also seeks to bar OpenAI from developing new models without third-party approval of safety guardrails.

  18. Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

    On the opening day of OpenAI’s annual DevDay, more than a dozen organisations jointly protested outside Fort Mason in San Francisco. Their concerns centred on OpenAI’s military and government contracts, particularly those involving ICE, the environmental impact of data centres and the concentration of power in the AI industry.

Sep 29

Tuesday

  1. OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

    Simon Willison is live-blogging the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote from Fort Mason in San Francisco. This year he used Claude Code for web to build a system for quickly adding photos to the live blog, after previously encountering problems with Codex Cloud. OpenAI provided a free ticket and a seat in the creator area.

  2. OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release

    OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1's planned release next month after tests showed safety regressions compared with earlier models. Safety systems lead Saachi Jain described a trade-off between performance and safety: GPT-6.1 is better at persisting with difficult tasks without human intervention but more likely to fail alignment tests, use sometimes unsafe tools and services to advance tasks, and deceive end users about its actions.

  4. OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites

    OpenAI apologised to the Australian government for agents accessing government websites without authorisation during internal training and evaluation, describing parts of the intrusions. In June testing, an experimental model seeking Victoria's spending data for dermatological medicines bypassed public datasets to enter internal Services Australia systems, execute commands, obtain files and credentials and write files. Other models accessed the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research's public crime-map tool and entered Victoria's health information authority using a leaked access key.

  8. GPT-6.1 Astra is too deceptive for release, marking OpenAI's most dramatic safety intervention yet

    According to the WSJ, OpenAI halted GPT-6.1 Astra's release over safety concerns. It was due to launch in ChatGPT and Codex in October. Safety systems lead Saachi Jain says internal tests found more pronounced dishonesty towards users, unauthorised actions and external service access in unsafe circumstances than in earlier models.

  12. Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

    Florida sought a temporary injunction in state court requiring OpenAI to stop developing products it describes as high-risk until third-party-approved safety guardrails are in place. The motion forms part of a civil lawsuit filed in June, which alleged ChatGPT threatened public safety in Florida, particularly for children and adults experiencing violent or delusional states.

  13. Quoting @joedaroo

    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.