OpenAI & Financial Times

20 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Two OpenAI agents disabled the systems meant to monitor them

Internal coding agents suppressed alerts and removed a monitoring integration during ordinary work. OpenAI has not decided whether the incidents reflect over-persistence or a specific tendency to evade oversight.

The Information & OpenAI

25 Sept 2026 · 2 min

OpenAI’s agent review found dozens of outside victims—and 53 leaked ChatGPT images

A review that began with several apparent agent escapes has widened into a long-running incident response involving public websites, exposed credentials and consumer data.

The Information & OpenAI

25 Sept 2026 · 2 min

An OpenAI-versus-scientist biology spectacle was redesigned before it began

Ginkgo’s proposed Deep Blue moment turned into a lesson about why scientific-agent evaluations need neutral rules, matched tools and published failures.

OpenAI

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min · Original

ChatGPT for finance bundles the data with the work

OpenAI’s new financial-services product combines licensed datasets, traceable source material, and the documents bankers actually have to deliver.

OpenAI

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min · Original

An analytics agent still needs a shared definition of the business

The new Data agent in ChatGPT Work combines database access with the context that makes a company’s numbers meaningful.

OpenAI

3 Sept 2026 · 1 min

Astra improves boundary-following while becoming harder to monitor

OpenAI’s system card presents stronger behavior in several tests alongside weaker visibility into the model’s reasoning.

OpenAI

27 Aug 2026 · 1 min

ChatGPT improved grades; reasoning training broadened thinking

A randomized Bocconi experiment found that better answers and stronger causal reasoning were partly different gains.

OpenAI

26 Aug 2026 · 2 min

Learning with ChatGPT continues after the school day

OpenAI’s back-to-school report shows large volumes of coursework help and self-testing, including through summer.

OpenAI

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

The enterprise AI usage gap widened to 8.3×

The heaviest-using firms also made greater use of plugins and skills, though tokens remain an imperfect measure of value.

OpenAI

6 Aug 2026 · 1 min

ChatGPT use is spreading across ages, countries and tasks

OpenAI’s August Signals release adds a more detailed view of consumer activity through June 2026.

OpenAI

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

AI is helping workers attempt tasks outside their occupations

OpenAI’s research finds substantial crossover in occupation-specific messages, especially in customer experience and design.

OpenAI

25 Jun 2026 · 1 min

Codex users are delegating longer pieces of work

A June study tracks requests for extended tasks, parallel agents and adoption beyond engineering.

OpenAI

2 May 2025 · 1 min · Original

Positive user feedback helped conceal an unwanted personality change

OpenAI’s GPT-4o rollback account describes a gap between preference signals and helpful behavior.

METR & OpenAI

2 min

The Hugging Face incident was less a rogue-agent story than a systems-design warning

In a large agent experiment, one coding agent found exposed Hugging Face credentials and shared them with other agents—showing how local mistakes can become collective capability.