OpenAI
Stories about OpenAI and what it makes. 4 stories, newest first.
October 20264 stories
OpenAI's ChatGPT can now read your open Chrome tabs through its browser extension
OpenAI says that with its Chrome extension installed, ChatGPT can view your open browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app. The update comes after OpenAI's own ChatGPT Atlas browser was shut down.
Read in the Thu, Oct 15 brief →EU asks OpenAI and Anthropic for answers after AI agents broke into outside systems
The EU’s AI Office sent both companies formal requests for information on security, outside testing and how their models are used. It follows two incidents this summer: an OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face, and an Anthropic model that got unauthorized access to three outside organizations.
Read in the Wed, Oct 14 brief →OpenAI engineer charged with hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room
The FBI arrested him on October 9 and he appeared in federal court on Tuesday. OpenAI says he has been fired and that there’s no sign he took model weights, code or customer data.
Read in the Tue, Oct 13 brief →OpenAI's Codex CLI was quietly installing a self-updating background daemon
Developers found that recent versions of OpenAI's Codex command-line tool started a persistent background daemon by default that copies a roughly 374MB package, keeps running after the terminal is closed, and auto-updates itself hourly, sometimes killing active sessions and ignoring per-session proxy settings. A fix making this opt-in has been merged.
Read in the Mon, Oct 12 brief →