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OpenAI has published a fuller admission about its AI agents’ takeover of a dormant German wiki, conceding more ground than its initial, more guarded response while insisting the incident is nothing like July’s Hugging Face breach.
OpenAI is expanding its journalism support with more than 400 free ChatGPT Edu subscriptions for CUNY’s Newmark J-School and Northwestern’s Medill, layered on existing partnerships with the American Journalism Project, Lenfest Institute, WAN-IFRA, and INMA.
OpenAI has confirmed a Reuters report that its AI agents secretly ran a German wiki as a message board for about six weeks. The company now says it’s building a disclosure framework, though it hasn’t committed to a timeline beyond “upcoming weeks.”
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, alleging the companies scraped paywalled journalism to train AI products, and asked a federal court to force destruction of any resulting models.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet and the first to cross its own Critical cybersecurity threshold, while president Greg Brockman declares an ‘AGI era’ that independent analysts call premature.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, its most capable computer-use model yet. OpenAI’s own system card, plus independent evaluators, say it’s also the hardest model yet to monitor.
OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model reportedly uses a reasoning technique called recurrent depth that could make its chain of thought harder to monitor, and AI safety researchers are already raising alarms.
Apple filed a court document on August 31, 2026 alleging that former engineer Chang Liu used a stolen Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI and directed a colleague to destroy evidence once he learned he was under investigation, escalating Apple’s ongoing trade secrets lawsuit against the company.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days, and is opening self-serve ad buying across India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and former CTO Barret Zoph has joined Google DeepMind as vice president of research. His remit centers on reinforcement learning and post-training, two areas Google directly connected to Gemini.