Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed […]

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Here are 5 ChatGPT plugins that I actually use, and you should too
Here are 5 ChatGPT plugins that I actually use, and you should too

These ChatGPT plugins deserve a permanent spot in your rotation. Here are my top 5.

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic’s white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to […]

OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agent…

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

OpenAI says it took down a malicious Russian plan to spread misinformation on ChatGPT

The International Burke Institute was central to the social influence campaign, designed to paint Russia in a better light than its Western counterparts.