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

11 Sept 2026 · 1 min

OpenAI’s storage problem was also a deployment problem

Habitat grew from a Python library into infrastructure serving more than 70 million requests a second. A failed rollout helps explain the architectural change.

OpenAI

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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

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

27 Apr 2026 · 3 min

Symphony turns Linear tickets into continuously running Codex tasks

OpenAI’s team moved from supervising three to five coding sessions per engineer to assigning each issue its own agent. Symphony is the open-source specification for the scheduler that keeps those tasks moving.

OpenAI

2 May 2025 · 1 min

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.