Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman seem to agree that it’s time to “pace the frontier.” What would that actually look like?
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OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users’ API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a…
Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says
Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.
OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers
The “major malicious attack” that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, disclosed details of a coordinated…
OpenAI just wants to win
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI’s relentless advance with…
Anthropic researchers warn AI could wipe out humanity, now US lawmakers are calling for new AI regulation
Two Anthropic researchers are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next decade, setting off fresh alarm in Washington and new calls from U.S. lawmakers for tighter controls on advanced AI systems. The warnings are striking for […] The post Anthropic researchers warn AI could wipe out humanity, now US lawmakers are…
Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack.
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.