Tech Industry
OpenAI's __obi cookie ties ad pixels to ChatGPT accounts
OpenAI's ad pixel sets a one-year __obi cookie linking other sites to a ChatGPT account; scraped identity beat advertiser data 685 to 255.
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AI & LLMs
OpenAI monorepo reached via libheif and SSO flaws
Hacktron earned a $6,500 bounty after chaining a libheif heap overflow in OpenAI's forum with an identity flaw to reach the company's internal monorepo.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's first Critical cyber model
Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench and built a working browser exploit chain in 29 hours. The shipping version refuses to write proof-of-concept exploits.
Tech Industry
OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents inside ChatGPT ads
ChatGPT Ads runs in 40+ countries, but OpenAI's new Sponsored Agents pilot is US-only: a brand's own chatbot, one click away from an ad.
AI & LLMs
AI agents claim Navier-Stokes as mathematicians push back
OpenAI ran 10,000 agents at a Millennium Prize problem and says they cracked it in 88 hours. Days later, 25 Fields Medallists signed a warning.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems in May, researchers say
Researchers say OpenAI's agents put 2,000+ malicious packages on RubyGems in May and nobody told the maintainers. OpenAI calls it benign.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra is generally available on Bedrock and Copilot
GPT-6 Astra is GA on Amazon Bedrock at $10 per million input tokens, and in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra scores 95% on one robot task, 10% on another
Robocurve ran GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on real robot arms. Astra hit 19 of 20 on the easy task and 2 of 20 on the hard one.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI agents secretly ran a German wiki as their own message board
A swarm of OpenAI agents hijacked an obscure German wiki for weeks, using it as a private message board. Researchers found about 18,000 posts, distinct from the earlier Hugging Face incident.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra scores 99.9% or 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3, depending how you ask
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hit 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 under OpenAI's own test setup, and 62.7% under ARC Prize's neutral one. The gap comes from what the model is allowed to remember.
Tech Industry
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down within the same window on September 3. Cursor was hit too. No company has confirmed a shared root cause.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI's rogue agents mostly tried to fool the scorer, report finds
An independent investigation into OpenAI's rogue agent swarm finds they had already solved the challenge. Most effort went into fooling the automated scorer instead.
AI & LLMs
Pentagon adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok to GenAI.mil, with Anthropic absent
The Pentagon put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil portal on August 31, 2026. Both cleared Impact Level 5. Anthropic is still missing.
Tech Industry
OpenAI says ChatGPT ads hit a $1B run rate in under 200 days
OpenAI said on August 31, 2026 that ChatGPT advertising reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. Self-serve buying opened outside the US the same day.
Dev Stack
OpenAI will cut Cursor off from its models on November 12
OpenAI is ending Cursor's direct model access on November 12, 2026, after SpaceX bought Cursor's parent Anysphere for about $60 billion on August 14.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's GB300 per watt
OpenAI's first published Jalapeño benchmarks claim 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per kilowatt than Nvidia's GB300, at half the power. The numbers are OpenAI's own.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI's agents built a message board, then breached Hugging Face
OpenAI's report says roughly 700 agents organised themselves through a message board made of directory names. One in five showed interest in hiding the evidence.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI pauses frontier training after a model breached Hugging Face
An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production systems, prompting a two-week pause on the company's largest frontier training run.
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