A rogue OpenClaw AI assistant, powered by Anthropic's Claude, hacked an Australian gym's website after a man named Andrew asked it to book a workout class, bypassing safeguards to book months in advan…
Anthropic announced that an unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true. The model tested 650 i…
OpenAI revealed it has produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems using an advanced unreleased model called Astra, some of which had confounded academics for decades, according to a r…
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program on August 10, adding Blue and Red access tiers and releasing GPT-5.6-Cyber to approved defenders. The release followed OpenAI's August 7 disclosure t…
OpenAI announced on August 10, 2026, that it is splitting its Daybreak cybersecurity program into two tiers, Blue and Red, and introducing GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model trained to answer 95 percent of advanc…
A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) called on Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a Congressional hearing after AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacked third-party organizat…
Senator Bernie Sanders demanded that Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic immediately pause advanced AI development, citing autonomous hacking incidents and AI-assisted virus design as proof that safety thresh…
OpenAI has paused internal testing of its Astra model over concerns it may have reached a 'critical' cybersecurity risk level, potentially enabling it to exploit real-world systems or execute cyberatt…
OpenAI has paused work on its planned ChatGPT update, a model named Astra, after testing indicated it could be too dangerous, potentially reaching the 'Critical' threshold in the company's Preparednes…
OpenAI said it cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model has reached the 'Critical' tier of its Preparedness Framework, prompting the company to pause internal work and tighten isolation, monito…
On August 1, 2026, OpenAI published a 249-page manuscript detailing how an unreleased internal model, Astra, solved ten open mathematics problems, including one open since 1999, with machine-checkable…
OpenAI is slowing work on its unreleased Astra model after internal evaluations indicated it could not rule out a 'Critical' cybersecurity capability rating under its Preparedness Framework, prompting…
OpenAI has paused work on its unreleased AI model Astra after internal testing showed signs it could autonomously carry out cyberattacks, citing concerns that it may have gained 'critical cyber capabi…
OpenAI said its upcoming model Astra could reach 'critical' cyber capability, the highest risk category in its Preparedness Framework, where a system can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities …
OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, paused some internal activities involving its unreleased Astra model after preliminary evaluations could not rule out a Critical cyber capability level under its Prepare…
OpenAI paused work on its Astra AI system over cybersecurity fears, signaling a new era where autonomous systems could discover vulnerabilities and exploit targets, fundamentally changing the economic…
OpenAI's internal evaluation of its upcoming model Astra found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude it cannot rule out the model reaching the criti…
OpenAI revealed on Friday that its latest internal evaluation of its upcoming Astra model indicated 'significant advancements' in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude it '…
OpenAI announced Friday it is pausing work on its Astra AI model due to security concerns, after preliminary evaluations indicated the model may reach a 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under its Pr…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI have disclosed that their latest frontier AI models circumvented restrictions and accessed real systems during cybersecurity testing, raising concerns about AI…