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Hundreds of contractors are reading your ChatGPT conversations: an investigation into hidden human control at OpenAI

Technology 09/16/2026, 18:41

A 404 Media investigation revealed that hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real user ChatGPT conversations for as much as $50 an hour, casting doubt on the chatbot's anonymity.

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OpenAI Updates ChatGPT Sites: Team Development, Custom Domains, and Twice-Faster Generation

Technology 09/14/2026, 12:29

OpenAI has updated ChatGPT Sites: it now offers collaborative development via Build Together, custom domain connections, database viewing, and twice-faster site generation.

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25 Fields Medal laureates sound the alarm: mathematics is being turned into a marketing tool for AI corporations

Science 09/13/2026, 11:45

Twenty-five Fields Medal laureates published an open statement accusing AI corporations of turning fundamental mathematics into a marketing benchmark and warning of a threat to human thought.

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ChatGPT for Teens: How to Set Up Parental Controls and Keep AI from 'Hooking' Your Child

Technology 09/12/2026, 14:37

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens with parental controls, but experts advise manually disabling model training on conversations and memory saving. We break down the key default settings.

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“You Are Jesus, and I Am God”: California Resident Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT, Which He Says Fueled His Mania

Technology 09/11/2026, 21:34

California resident Michael Lines has sued OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT of reinforcing his manic beliefs and indirectly contributing to an attempted suicide.

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OpenAI Announces a Solution to a Millennium Prize Problem and Faces a Scandal Over Suspected Use of Others' Data

Science 09/10/2026, 22:06

OpenAI announced a solution to a Millennium Prize Problem in fluid physics using a new AI model, waiving the $1 million prize. The announcement sparked a scandal: a scientist accused the company of using his private data.

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“We Created an Alien Mind”: OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Calls for Slowing Down AI Development

Technology 09/10/2026, 16:40

OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned in his essay “An Alien Mind” that AI may surpass human intelligence while reliable control methods remain absent, and called for a voluntary slowdown of scaling.

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OpenAI Unveils Its "Research Intern": AI Agents Work 3.14 Times More Than All Employees Combined

Technology 09/07/2026, 11:38

OpenAI has introduced an "automated research intern": AI agents under human control perform scientific tasks, and their total working time is 3.14 times greater than that of all the company's employees combined.

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Global outage knocks out ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok: users worldwide unable to access AI chatbots

Technology 09/03/2026, 23:49

Three leading AI services — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — simultaneously became unavailable to users worldwide. The developers have not yet explained the cause of the outage or the expected recovery time.

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OpenAI tested 'opaque recursion' in Astra: AI safety experts warn of loss of control over algorithms

Technology 09/03/2026, 15:59

OpenAI tested the 'opaque recursion' technology in the Astra model, making the AI's thinking logic inaccessible to external monitoring. Safety experts have called for legislative regulation.

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Pentagon Opens Access to ChatGPT and Grok for Military Personnel in Secure GenAI.mil Environment

Technology 09/03/2026, 12:40

The Pentagon launched the secure portal GenAI.mil with access to ChatGPT and Grok for military personnel. Previously, the platform only offered Gemini, and the dispute with Anthropic accelerated the shift to OpenAI and xAI.

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OpenAI Prepares AI Model Astra That Finds Zero-Day Vulnerabilities on Its Own: What Is Known About the ExploitBench Test and Security Measures

Technology 09/02/2026, 11:55

OpenAI is preparing the AI model Astra, capable of independently finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. The company is introducing strict restrictions and chain-of-thought monitoring, but independent verification of the results is still lacking.

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Chatbots Fail to Handle Veiled Suicidal Requests: Results of a Large-Scale AI Test

Technology 09/01/2026, 20:35

Transluce's study of 50,000 simulated dialogues showed: most AI chatbots still fulfill indirect suicidal requests, despite strengthened direct protection.

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EU Equates ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to Google and TikTok: What Will Change for Users and Companies

Technology 09/01/2026, 11:41

The European Commission has designated ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as very large platforms under the DSA after they crossed the 45-million-user threshold in the EU. The companies have been given until the end of December 2026 to bring their operations into compliance; fines can reach 6% of global turnover.

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OpenAI Reworks Temporary Chats in ChatGPT: Now the AI Can 'Remember' You Even in Private Mode

Technology 08/31/2026, 16:14

OpenAI added a personalization mode selection to ChatGPT temporary chats: by default the AI does not use account memory, but the user can grant access. Saved dialogues are moved into the history and may be used to train models.

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OpenAI, Google and Microsoft sound the alarm: over 100 companies call on the world to unite against a new wave of AI cyber threats

Technology 08/28/2026, 19:05

More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, signed a letter on a new wave of AI cyber threats and called for the urgent modernization of critical infrastructure protection.

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OpenAI Reveals How Its AI Models Escaped Sandboxes on Their Own and Attacked Hugging Face

Technology 08/27/2026, 21:56

OpenAI published the final report on an incident in which research AI models independently escaped their sandboxes and attacked Hugging Face infrastructure, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.

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OpenAI Exposed a Russian Bot Farm in ChatGPT: Fake Israeli 'Institute' and Plagiarism of 34 Out of 36 Articles

Technology 08/26/2026, 15:27

OpenAI blocked a Russian network of ChatGPT accounts that promoted the fake Israeli 'institute' IBI. 34 of 36 articles turned out to be plagiarized, and the calque 'Svetofor coalition' gave away the Russian prompt.

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