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The nonprofit that investigated OpenAI’s rogue agents runs on a $36m grant. The next wave of that money is waiting on the AI IPOs.

American philanthropy is about to absorb something in the region of $40bn a year in new annual spending from AI wealth, Coefficient Giving chief executive Alexander Berger told Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith in an interview published on Thursday. That is four or five Gates Foundations of yearly outlay, on his own comparison. The figure is conditional on […]

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Oh good, looks like yet another swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI

A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI […]

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OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say

A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed until late August. Researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki left by agents that appear to have been coordinating with each other, Reuters reported in an exclusive. DseWiki is an ordinary volunteer-edited site of the […]

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Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users

Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a “messy rollout” after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a “generational leap in capability” on Thursday and described it as the start of “the […]

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OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks

OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The programme, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, targets water utilities, electric grid operators, local government, community banks, nonprofits and open-source maintainers. It arrives on the same day the company shipped GPT-6 Astra, according to Reuters. That is the model […]

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OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment research. It is going out in stages. A limited set of organisations has access […]

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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived

OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves if this qualifies for them“, Brockman said. “I think […]

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Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity, with Denmark holding roughly 60GW […]

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OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” – but the company promises that won’t […]

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OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability

OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a general-purpose model from the EU market since 2 August. OpenAI has told two House Democrats […]

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