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An 80,000 Hours video tells how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face
The AI In Context channel goes over July's incident in 33 minutes, mainly from METR's report, and calls for treating such cases like plane crashes.
OpenAI
US AI organisation, maker of the GPT models
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In briefOpenAI says its models are far better at coding in COBOL and Fortran
The company published two of its own tests on languages with little public code. Its newer models go from 5% to 87% on migrating COBOL programs.
In briefOpenAI employee arrested for hiding a recorder in a meeting room
According to the complaint, the device was hidden in an executive conference room at OpenAI in San Francisco. The company says it used its own models to find out who had planted it.
OpenAI admits that GPT-6 Astra's reasoning is harder to monitor
The model's system card shows it controls what it writes in its reasoning better, and can underperform on purpose without being detected.
In briefOpenAI publishes 719 AI-written math manuscripts and shakes up the field
Terence Tao speaks of the end of the age of heroes in mathematics: proofs are plentiful, but less is understood.
The FTC demands documents from OpenAI and Anthropic about their safety incidents
The US consumer protection regulator sent subpoenas to both companies, according to Axios. It wants information on incidents, safeguards and marketing.
OpenAI discloses four more incidents of AI agents overstepping their limits
Its incident page now lists 19. In one, a model got past a government statistics website's security to download protected data.
About 700 OpenAI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face, METR finds
An independent investigation reconstructs how agents meant to be isolated organised on an unsanctioned message board to cheat on an evaluation.
