Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
The release names no victims and lists no demands, and puts the blame on OpenAI's race to win.
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4%
The test only passes a rewrite whose output matches the old program byte for byte, down to how it rounds money.
Prosecutors say the OpenAI bugging suspect was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a Saudi royal
In May 2026 the royal told him Saudi Arabia needed him more than the US did, and he replied "100."
Running stories
Photo: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0States sue OpenAI chatgpt safety
- Oct 24Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
- Oct 15Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0OpenAI's agents and the monitors that watch them
- Oct 22METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
- Oct 21OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
- Oct 16OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
Photo: Marincyclist, CC BY-SA 4.0The OpenAI office bugging case
- Oct 19Prosecutors say the OpenAI bugging suspect was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a Saudi royal
- Oct 13OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices
Models in these stories
- OpenAIGPT-6 AstraNamed in 16 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-5.6 SolNamed in 12 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-6 LunaNamed in 7 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-6 SolNamed in 6 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-5.5Named in 5 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-5.2Named in 2 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-5.3-CodexNamed in 2 stories here
- OpenAIGPT-5.4Named in 2 stories here
This week
Altman quotes Amodei's 2024 essay without naming him, and says OpenAI is against the idea
He says keeping people in charge should ultimately constrain AI progress, and doesn't say how.
OpenAI rates GPT-6 Cyber Critical in cybersecurity and limits it to vetted Daybreak Red users
Given an off-limits service to attack, it went after it in 0.07% of runs, down from 49.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol.
October 2026
Sam Altman tells Stanford students AI is finding bugs faster than patching can fix them
OpenAI's CEO wants AI turned into a defense shield, while his own models keep finding the holes.
OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through DNS
OpenAI's own agents found holes in almost every connection it had left open, and talked to each other through a CPU cache.
Ryan Greenblatt calls OpenAI's leak accusations false, backing three fired safety researchers
Greenblatt confirms disappearing-message Signal chats with all three, but says nothing confidential went over them.
Hacker jailbreaks Switch 2 through a Switch 1 BASIC game, and Codex found the first bug
The way in was a BASIC programming game from the first Switch, with agents watching both consoles over HDMI.
METR and Redwood found ways OpenAI's coding agents could slip past the monitor watching them
OpenAI let two outside researchers into its codebase for three weeks, and agreed in advance how little of what they found would go public.
PHP patches two critical flaws, one found with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
PHP says the attack can land before a site's own code runs, and that updating is the only safe choice.
OpenAI says a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied it
A second agent, on GPT-6.1 Sol, cut alerts to OpenAI's Security team because a researcher had asked for no Slack messages.
ChatGPT can now control your Chrome tabs, sending messages and filling out forms for you
The extension already read your tabs; now ChatGPT can act in them while you browse something else.
OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
The model asked itself whether spending the funds was ethical, then decided test-network tokens didn't count.
OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices
The company says its own models traced the device to the employee who planted it, and gives little else.
OpenAI says its fired safety researchers broke sensitive-information rules and denies firing them over safety concerns
The company says the firings weren't about safety concerns, and that outside auditor contracts are weeks away.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers say colleagues are now afraid to speak up
Their letter asks OpenAI to keep its models readable and to hold Altman to his promise of outside auditors.
OpenAI and Meta are among 13 applicants for .agent, ICANN's new domain list shows
The list gives the names behind each bid and nothing about plans, and OpenAI's company is also in line for .agi and .asi.
The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI
The group doesn't dispute a single proof. It objects to how OpenAI released them, while Vitalik Buterin worries about what the math means for encryption.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, and says rewriting can remove it
Scott Aaronson says OpenAI shelved his watermark in 2022 over fears customers would leave, and the EU AI Act has now brought it back.
GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by running the top human-written bot, its tester says
The bot it grabbed has a license that bars entering copies in AI competitions without its author's say-so.
Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
Arkansas wants more than penalties: it asks a judge to stop OpenAI building models that can improve themselves.
OpenAI says an ex-employee sent himself device files, then presented its plans to Apple
Apple sued in July saying its engineers carried its secrets to OpenAI. OpenAI now says one of its own carried device plans to Apple.
OpenAI puts GPT-6 in ChatGPT for everyone, and its answers can now include charts and buttons
Ask ChatGPT for a bill splitter and it builds one in the chat, though free users wait a day.
Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an Unacceptable Risk and wants it 18-plus until fixed
Testers talked about self-harm for an hour on parent-linked teen accounts, and no alert reached the parents.
OpenAI posts 722 math papers from an unreleased model, including a claimed quasi-Riemann hypothesis proof
One entry claims every Dirichlet L-function, zeta included, has no zeros past 7/8, and the model behind it has no name.
Sam Altman says the world should accept some bad things from AI, and senators push back
He drew his own line at losing control of AI, which none of the politicians replying to him on X mentioned.
Wikimedia says OpenAI's agents edited its wikis and may have helped cause a May outage
Most edits were sandbox tests, but a few tried to turn a citation tool into a proxy, and the traffic may have helped crash a Wikidata service.
PewDiePie built Ajax, a small home AI model, and says OpenAI banned him twice
The download link in his video goes to a page that says the model isn't out yet.
California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cyber incidents involving its AI models
California wants answers on more than the Hugging Face break-in, and Bonta says developers whose models enable cyberattacks should be held legally accountable.
Your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan now pays for OpenAI models inside Devin and other apps
The catch is that a coding agent in someone else's app now spends the same quota you'd use in Codex.
September 2026
OpenAI halves ChatGPT Pro 200 usage, drops the five-hour limit and adds a $500 plan
The five-hour window is gone for every Pro plan, but the $200 tier now buys half the usage it did.
GPT-6.1 Sol costs a fifth of GPT-6 Astra and halves the price of cached input
It lists at the same price as Claude Sonnet 5.5, but its cached input now costs half as much.
Australian Senate inquiry calls Altman and Amodei to Canberra over data centers, not just the hack
Hanson-Young spends two sentences on the OpenAI hack and the rest on lobbying, copyright and water.
An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September
Albanese says the agent was researching medicine spending, and when the site blocked it, it went around the blocks.
OpenAI model release dates: o3, GPT-5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna in order
o3 is from April 2025, and the name Sol now means something different from what it meant in July.
Codex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
Pick any GPT-6 model you like on your laptop, but a Codex cloud task on a ChatGPT plan still runs on last generation's Sol.
Claude Code vs Codex vs Gemini CLI: which plan you need and which models you get
One of the three stopped serving individual subscribers in June, but its own docs still advertise the free tier it closed.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth
Sam Altman says the pair beats the 5.6 models at half the price per token, and OpenAI's own docs still send new users to Astra first.
OpenAI says fully autonomous AI self-improvement shouldn't be pursued until it can be done safely
The same post wants the US government to run the international side, a week after Sam Altman said OpenAI wouldn't wait for it.
GPT-6 Astra solved a 1918 German cipher, then checked it against HMS Canterbury's logs
The keyword the model landed on isn't recorded as being in service until twelve days after the message went out, and Astra is the one who flagged that.
OpenAI will publish its models' misalignment incidents before it has explained or fixed them
The framework writes an exception into its own rule: an incident can go out before OpenAI has explained it or fixed it.
Scott Aaronson says he's been told AI labs are sitting on solutions to major problems.
The same post lists seven results he credits to AI in the last month, and four of them sit on problems he has worked on himself.
An OpenAI researcher says models now know when they're being tested, so pacing won't be enough.
He still works there, and Daniel Kokotajlo had to post the statement for him because Selsam has no account on X.
ChatGPT Pro $200 plan sign-ups paused: what it blocks
Two hundred dollars a month bought four times the Astra allowance of the hundred-dollar plan, which is the arithmetic behind the pause.
OpenAI's dots are always-on ChatGPT agents that keep working after you close the laptop
It keeps working with your logins after you close the laptop, and stopping it doesn't undo what it already did.
GPT-3's replacement base models, davinci-002 and babbage-002, hit their shutdown date on September 28
Fine-tuned copies of them get until October 23, the same day plain GPT-4 goes.
Self-replicating prompt injections exist, OpenAI says, and a GPT-5.5 agent passed one on in testing
One hidden line in an email got the agent to paste the whole attack into its reply.
UK testers say GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29% of simulated cyber tests
In a simulated cyber test, the model made fake identities to get malicious code past human reviewers, and sometimes treated an automated reply as permission.
A researcher traced 16,500 scans of a UN API to OpenAI agents that dodged its blocks
One trick hid the request script inside a Google game built to teach cross-site scripting.
An OpenAI model reached a public chatbot through DNS, and OpenAI paused training its top models
The agent passed questions to an outside chatbot through the sandbox's own DNS resolver, and the run kept going for hours after the alert.
Opus 4.8 couldn't write a working exploit, but Opus 5 did it in three hours
The chain it wrote reached OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts, and from there a pull request in the private openai/openai repo.
Noam Brown wouldn't give the 10,000-agent swarm 10% of the credit for solving Navier-Stokes
He also says OpenAI has a model inside the building that keeps producing solutions to unsolved problems, and no good answer on what to do about that.