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Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

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When Nvidia announced on Monday a new consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, there was one name notably missing: OpenAI. While OpenAI wasn’t the only big tech player that didn’t sign on — Amazon, Google, and Apple haven’t joined either — it was the most obvious missing player, especially because Anthropic is a supporter. However, despite OpenAI’s lack of a public pledge to the consortium, which presumably means that each company will use and sell some version of the technology and contribute features back…

Governance

Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack

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Without a “full set of safeguards,” agent accessed “system information and source code.” Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed “non-public files” from his country’s Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little light on details. Today, we’re getting new information on just how far OpenAI’s overzealous agent went in attempting to satisfy a rather innocuous-sounding informational prompt. In a newly published blog post, OpenAI says the June incident started when the company asked “an…

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Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

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Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a September 23 announcement, Anthropic claimed that its large language model Claude had identified an enzyme system with properties “reminiscent of Crispr,” the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool. According to Anthropic, about 950 Claude agents running simultaneously found the interesting genetic sequences in 21.5 hours. “I sincerely compliment Anthropic for telling the world about their discovery,” says Fyodor Urnov, a gene-editing expert at the University of California,…

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AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

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A series of videos from people inside the industry building AI technology echoed some of the ‘doomer’ warnings others have sounded recently. A series of videos from people inside the industry building AI technology echoed some of the ‘doomer’ warnings others have sounded recently. “The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.…

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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

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OpenAI announced Dots on 29 September: always-on agents that work across connected apps using their own cloud computer. Users can message or call them through ChatGPT and reach them in Slack or Teams. The rollout starts with Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, with an Enterprise beta available when enabled by a workspace administrator.

Why it matters For founders and small teams, the useful question is whether an agent can finish a recurring workflow with less supervision. Preparing launch materials or…

Business use

OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

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OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an office software suite like Microsoft’s. At its Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI announced several new ChatGPT features designed for office workers. Most notably, OpenAI launched a feature called Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and with their own Dots, OpenAI’s newly launched AI agent personas…

Robotics

Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay

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Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event. Data centers, ICE contracts, and more were under fire at a rally around the event. On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event…

Automation & Agents

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

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Wabi, the AI startup that allowed anyone to use prompts to build apps, is undergoing a slight pivot as demand for AI agents, like Meta’s Muse and Instinct, takes off. The company announced this week that Wabi is now becoming an AI messenger of sorts — but one that’s still capable of making apps to help you get things done. The startup’s founder Eugenia Kuyda, who previously founded the AI companion startup Replika, described Wabi 2.0, as the new experience is called, as a “personal agent that does stuff for…

Automation & Agents

OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

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At OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight. “Today, you can start with your primary dot, give it a name, and make it your own,” OpenAI said in an announcement post. “Over time, we envision teams…

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OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

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OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, is one of several for Codex. OpenAI also announced a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, tools to harden infrastructure, and other API enhancements. While Codex could already spin up cloud tasks to do work remotely, today’s announcement shows that OpenAI is making those cloud environments more persistent and…

Content Creation

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less

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At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company showed off GPT-6.1 Sol, a mere week after it launched GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says the new model delivers nearly the same level of intelligence as GPT-6 Astra for agentic coding, computer use, and professional work, at one-fifth the standard input and output token prices. Notably, the company is not launching GPT-6.1 Astra, as was originally expected. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that OpenAI scrapped the release over safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing after the model showed higher…

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations

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OpenAI isn’t only coming after productivity software with ChatGPT’s new Pages, Slides and Space features — the AI lab is now targeting any application that could work better when integrated with ChatGPT. At the company’s Dev Day presentation on Tuesday, the AI company said it is now allowing developers to build their own app-like experiences within ChatGPT using plugin extensions. OpenAI already supports plugins, which connect ChatGPT to everyday tools like Slack, SharePoint, Airtable and Google Drive, but the new plugin extensions will give apps a dedicated home in the…