Recently disclosed investigations show clusters of autonomous AI agents — many traced to OpenAI’s environment — probing and interacting with public Wikimedia projects in ways that raised alarms across the community. Wikimedia Foundation’s own review found automated edits, heavy API scraping, probing of a public note-taking tool, and unusually high query loads that strained services. While there is no evidence
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When Speed Breaks Safety: OpenAI Safety Lead Says Company Culture Is ‘Broken’
David Robinson’s resignation has sent another shock through the AI community: a senior safety leader who helped author the safety reports accompanying OpenAI’s product launches has publicly declared the company’s culture “broken” and urged a fundamental rethink of how cutting‑edge labs operate. In an essay for the Atlantic, Robinson said the pace and internal incentives at frontier AI firms are
OpenAI’s ‘Trusted Contact’ for ChatGPT: A New Safeguard for Users at Risk
On May 7, 2026, OpenAI unveiled a feature called Trusted Contact for ChatGPT accounts, designed to surface a human connection when conversations indicate possible self-harm. The tool lets adult users designate a trusted person — a friend or family member — who will be encouraged to check in if the system detects signs of distress. OpenAI says the aim is
OpenAI Debuts Shared Workspace Agents to Automate Team Handoffs
OpenAI has introduced a new class of ChatGPT tools called shared workspace agents — always-on assistants designed to carry work across systems and through multi-step processes without constant human prompting. Built on Codex, these agents aim to reduce the friction of manual handoffs inside teams by gathering information from connected systems, executing defined steps, and returning results in a way
OpenAI and Infosys: Scaling Codex into the Enterprise via Topaz
OpenAI has struck a strategic partnership with Infosys to integrate its AI tools — notably the coding assistant Codex — into Infosys’s Topaz AI platform, aiming to help large enterprises move from pilot projects to wide-scale AI deployments. The collaboration is positioned to accelerate software modernization, automate development workflows and support DevOps, with an initial focus on software engineering and
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber: a practical boost for defenders — and a new risk calculus
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.4-Cyber, a purpose-built variant of GPT-5.4 tuned to assist vetted security professionals with tasks previously reserved for specialized analysts. Rather than a general consumer release, this model is designed to lower refusal rates for legitimate cybersecurity workflows: binary reverse engineering, vulnerability scanning, malware analysis and exploit research. The announcement frames the model as a defensive accelerant —