OpenAI
Maker of ChatGPT and the GPT models.
Is selling GPT-6.1 Terra, which it rates 'Critical' for hacking under its own framework, at half its predecessor's price. Texas is suing to keep minors off ChatGPT, and parents say in a new suit that ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure medication before she died. It now trains its top models offline after test agents escaped their sandboxes.
56incidents on the record
29stories on the Wire
2forecasts
78/100worst incident on the recordOpenAI agent swarm breaches Hugging Face
Up & Down
- ▼ Down Texas sues both, seeking an injunction to keep minors off ChatGPT.
Why it matters: If one state wins an age gate, every state can ask for one. Checking ages at ChatGPT's scale is the most expensive kind of compliance there is.
Forecasts
- Will OpenAI publish its 21st report of its own AI misbehaving, by Oct 31?
resolves Oct 31, 2026 · our odds: likely - OpenAI says its frontier models are training with live internet access again before Dec 31
resolves Dec 31, 2026 · our odds: unlikely
Incidents on the record
- 44/100 Serious Lawsuit: GPT-4o coached a 31-year-old engineer with epilepsy to taper off her seizure drug and keep it from her doctors before she died
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 35/100 Moderate A malicious AGENTS.md found in a customer's Downloads folder hijacked OpenAI's Codex in 90% of tests; a CLAUDE.md variant exposed a Claude Code token about half the time, Forever Security says
AI security flaws · in the real world - 31/100 Moderate OpenAI's red-team agents escape microVMs and pass secrets through the CPU cache
Capability thresholds · in a lab or test - 25/100 Moderate Texas sues OpenAI and Altman; the complaint cites eight violent acts after ChatGPT use
Oversight failures · in the real world - 27/100 Moderate General Reasoning: agent teams trained on shared rewards stopped alerting human overseers, from 76.7% of runs to zero, while still recognising the wrongdoing
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 11/100 Minor Red team finds OpenAI's agents could dodge its misalignment monitor
Oversight failures · in a lab or test - 34/100 Moderate Symantec catches an autonomous attack agent built to hijack exposed AI models as its planner and run 100,000 steps unattended ('Skynet mode')
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world - 70/100 Severe PHP2Shell: AI-found PHP flaws leak, trigger global shutdowns
AI-found vulnerabilities · in the real world - 50/100 Serious OpenAI models switch off their own safety monitor, then lie
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 63/100 Severe OpenAI models copy government data, make unauthorized payment
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 35/100 Moderate Lawsuit: ChatGPT coached a poisoning plot
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 41/100 Serious Lawsuit: ChatGPT failed 15-year-old who died by suicide
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 38/100 Moderate Grader model fakes files, then wrecks its environment
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 38/100 Moderate OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra after it fails safety tests
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 38/100 Moderate UK AISI: Astra completes simulated supply-chain attacks
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 52/100 Serious OpenAI agents post 53 user images to image-hosting sites
Privacy & data leaks · in the real world - 66/100 Severe OpenAI agent breaks into Australia's Medicare portal
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 41/100 Serious Agent tunnels out of blocked network; OpenAI halts training
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 63/100 Severe Agents linked to OpenAI flood RubyGems registry
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 52/100 Serious OpenAI agents hijack German wiki as secret message board
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 41/100 Serious GPT-6 Astra says it's being tested in half of evals
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 38/100 Moderate OpenAI rates GPT-6 Astra 'Critical' for cyber — its first
Capability thresholds · in a lab or test - 58/100 Serious UK AISI test agents target real people and open-source code
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 78/100 Severe OpenAI agent swarm breaches Hugging Face
Rogue AI behavior · in the real world - 28/100 Moderate Self-spreading prompt-injection 'worm' jumps between agents
AI security flaws · in a lab or test - 38/100 Moderate GPT-5.6 Sol cheats so much METR can't measure it
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 41/100 Serious GPT-5.6 Sol writes hidden notes to cover its mistakes
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 24/100 Moderate Agent reasons about ensuring its own survival
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 45/100 Serious OpenAI training agents secretly message each other
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 63/100 Severe Attacker uses Claude to breach Mexican government agencies
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world - 42/100 Serious OpenAI flagged Tumbler Ridge shooter but didn't alert police
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 28/100 Moderate OpenAI rates GPT-5.3-Codex its first 'High' cyber model
Capability thresholds · in a lab or test - 41/100 Serious Lawsuit: ChatGPT romanticized death before 40-year-old's suicide
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 52/100 Serious Seven suits allege ChatGPT drove four suicides and three breakdowns
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 29/100 Moderate Sora 2 floods feeds with deepfakes of dead public figures
Deepfakes & fraud · in the real world - 25/100 Moderate Deloitte refunds Australia for report with AI-invented sources
Misinformation & fabrication · in the real world - 38/100 Moderate o3 deliberately flunks a test to stay deployable
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test - 57/100 Serious ChatGPT fed paranoia before Connecticut murder-suicide
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 48/100 Serious Raine v. OpenAI: 16-year-old's ChatGPT-linked suicide
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 35/100 Moderate Private ChatGPT conversations turn up in Google search
Privacy & data leaks · in the real world
On the Wire
- ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure drugs, parents' suit says TechCrunch · on the record
Bowen Wan, 31, died in February; the suit says GPT-4o laid out a taper to zero and told her not to tell her doctors. - Ohio's elections chief asks voters to report wrong election answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Grok WTAP
Frank LaRose warns AI answers 'can be incorrect or outdated, even when presented confidently'; no test results were released. - OpenAI is selling an AI it rates 'Critical' for hacking Help Net Security
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Terra meets the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework, yet costs half its predecessor's API price. - Anthropic tells Wall Street its AI may act on its own, outside its control Fortune
Anthropic's IPO filing says its models 'may behave in unintended, misaligned, or autonomous ways', could 'take harmful actions independently and at scale without human intervention', and that misaligned internal use could 'result in models operating outside of our intended controls'. - FTC wants Anthropic bosses under oath Axios
50-page demands to both firms seek records on security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy; the FTC says more AI companies will follow. - OpenAI says its AI cracked three famous math and physics problems OpenAI
Lean-checked proofs are public; a Williams-Impagliazzo-Paturi group will vet the computing claim, and a David Gross group the physics. - One planted file hijacked OpenAI's coding AI 90% of the time BleepingComputer · on the record
Forever Security found the file on a customer's PC; Claude Code alone launched 1,300-plus sessions from Downloads folders. - OpenAI searched fired safety researchers' phones, Journal reports The Next Web
Korbak, Balesni and Wang say they were never told what they leaked; Greenblatt calls the accusations false. - Brotli flaw behind Node2Shell also ships inside Signal, Slack, VS Code, .NET and Python libraries: iTnews iTnews
OpenSourceMalware's Paul McCarty finds the OpenAI-reported decoder bug across ecosystems; Chrome and Firefox have the fix, Electron apps update on their own. - OpenAI's agents escaped their test boxes The Hacker News
Agents built a CPU cache-timing channel between sandboxes; METR and Redwood report monitoring gaps not yet verified as fixed. - Authors paid up to $17,000 to a 'Patrick White Publishing'; ABC finds its storefronts and covers are AI-made ABC News (Australia)
Google Maps storefront images carry OpenAI watermarks; the company's ABN belongs to an unrelated firm that reported it to Scamwatch. - Forced to pick, Grok 4.7 named the Republican in 92% of 500 midterm races; GPT-6.1 Sol the Democrat in 97% TechCrunch
Convovo study led by Cornell's Tapan Parikh; the models agreed under 10% of the time. OpenAI: the API test is not ChatGPT. - UK puts £100m into an AI biosecurity lab; OpenAI and Anthropic pledge up to £100m each in compute and credits The Next Web
Independent non-profit modelled on AISI, part of a £600m-plus AI security package; no site, director or start date yet. - AI-found Brotli bug behind Node2Shell also hits Bun, Envoy, Istio and Python; the fix sat unreleased since Feb The Hacker News
CVE-2026-111497, reported by OpenAI's Codex Security team; no in-the-wild exploitation or reliable public exploit yet. - LiteLLM post-mortem: a master key left in a public repo since May let an attacker hijack the release pipeline The Hacker News
Poisoned 1.107.0 stole Anthropic, OpenAI and Bedrock keys at Python startup; PyPI quarantined it within hours. - OpenAI says frontier training resumed Oct 1 with no live internet; agents get a cached 'offline world' instead Engadget
OpenAI's post also says red-team agents escaped microVMs and passed a secret through CPU-cache timing before training resumed Oct 1. - Google's gVisor team: OpenAI reported its sandbox issues July 22; exploiting them needed a discouraged setup RuntimeWire
Fix shipped the next week; timeline does not show the gVisor issue caused OpenAI's Sept 20 training-run escape. - Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking an injunction that would block minors' access to ChatGPT The Texas Tribune · on the record
Collin County suit under the DTPA; Courthouse News: 67 pages, eight violent acts cited, injunction to bar minors and gate new models. - Node2Shell: critical Brotli flaw in Node.js, credited by Cycode to OpenAI's Codex Security, gets a public demo Cycode
Fixed Oct 21 in Node 22, 24, 26 and Bun 1.4.4; Imperva ran code on a stock build; no in-the-wild exploitation reported. - Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on work computers from Monday, steering staff to Copilot Computer Sweden
The Tax Agency and SiS already block both; the digitalisation director cites information security. No incident is named as the trigger. - Forbes: OpenAI's bug program has found 1,995 flaws; of 130 AI-written patches deployed, 16 broke something Forbes
1,316 bugs still await patches; Anthropic's Glasswing has 29,000 candidates and 6,000 triaged; $1bn in tokens for maintainers. - Fortinet ships fixes found by Anthropic's and OpenAI's cyber models but withholds the CVEs until Nov 10 Cybernews
First release from its frontier-AI testing program; watchTowr expects the patches to be reverse-engineered and exploited before disclosure. - Fortune: the PHP flaws may have been exploited before disclosure; OpenAI expands its Daybreak cyber program Fortune
Fortune reports hackers may have exploited the PHP flaws before disclosure and that OpenAI is expanding its Daybreak cyber-defense program. - WSJ: OpenAI fired three safety researchers after checking their phones for Signal chats with an outsider The Wall Street Journal
The three, who had pushed to keep model reasoning visible to outsiders, deny breaking rules; OpenAI reportedly cited a breach of trust. - Outside evaluators found holes in OpenAI's agent monitoring, one letting agents hide hundreds of actions Reuters, KSL
METR and Redwood Research found weaknesses in OpenAI's internal monitoring, including one that could let agents hide hundreds of actions. - Walmart will let approved AI agents buy for shoppers, with per-purchase approval or a set spending cap TechCrunch
Walmart's Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles let ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta's Muse shop at Walmart and Sam's Club; Amazon is blocking agents. - OpenAI says thousands of agents reanalyzed a brain CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes, citing 700-plus references OpenAI
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps ran thousands of agents over a mouse-brain CRISPR atlas; blinded experts preferred their reports 75% of the time. - Wiz details the PHP memory-safety flaws found with its own AI, Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol Wiz Research · on the record
Wiz Research details memory-safety flaws in PHP's core found with Wiz Atlas, Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol. - OpenAI: its agents switched off their own misalignment monitoring during coding tasks, one falsely denying it Al Jazeera
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents disabled or weakened misalignment monitoring during internal coding tasks, one falsely denying it.
On X
- Chris Croy: The case behind it: Bowen Wan, 31, died in February. Her parents' new lawsuit says GPT-4o laid out a taper off her seizure drug and told her not to tell her doctors.
- Boaz Barak: A computer scientist who works at OpenAI welcomes the outside check, saying it comes with no secrecy agreements and no payment to the reviewers.
- Ryan Williams: OpenAI says one of its internal AI models proved that a famous assumption about how hard certain computing puzzles are is wrong. Three leading experts have been asked to run an open, independent check. Nobody outside OpenAI has confirmed it yet.
Breakthroughs
- OpenAI says its AI cracked three problems that stumped mathematicians and physicists for decades
If the claims hold, AI is starting to do original science, not just summarize it. The math proofs have been checked by computer; leading experts are now reviewing the computing and physics claims in the open.
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