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Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a way that bypasses paywalls. The EU’s general-purpose AI code commits signatories not to circumvent access restrictions, naming subscription models and paywalls specifically. The Seattle Times and Newsday have jointly sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the training of […]

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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks

OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly. OpenAI has confirmed its role in the […]

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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens

California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a model from the same family that took part in the attack. California’s […]

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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning

AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report exactly this, which the EU’s code of practice turns into a filing to the AI Office. […]

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Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad

Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the allegations sounded egregious, while OpenAI has moved to have the case dismissed. California voids non-compete agreements, so an employer losing engineers has to litigate afterwards rather than restrain them in advance. Sam Altman called himself “a […]

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OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the “‘wiki incident,’ where our agents wrote to several internet sites,” OpenAI wrote […]

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Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit’s discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]

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