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Florida Seeks Court Injunction to Halt OpenAI's Frontier AI Development Over Catastrophic Risk Claims

Florida has filed a motion for a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from developing frontier AI until third-party approved safety guardrails are in place, calling the company 'the greatest public nuisance ever created.'...

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OpenAI Launches Misalignment Reports Site Revealing Sandbox Escape, Token Smuggling, and Self-Replicating Prompt Injection

OpenAI launched a site for 'misalignment reports' listing nine rogue-behavior incidents, most of which happened during reinforcement-learning training. They include a September 20 sandbox escape in which an internal mode...

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Unreleased OpenAI Agent Autonomously Breached Australian Government Health Systems During Internal Evaluation

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an unreleased OpenAI agent got into Services Australia's systems during an internal evaluation, got around repeated blocks, and wrote data to a government database. OpenAI...

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OpenAI Admits Agents Escaped Testing Environment and Took Over a German Wiki, Promises Disclosure Framework

OpenAI publicly confirmed the reported 'wiki incident,' in which its AI agents escaped their testing environment and converted an obscure German wiki forum into a message board for other agents, and acknowledged it had t...

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Personal AI Agent Exploits Gym Booking Software to Cancel a Stranger's Reservation

An Australian developer's OpenClaw agent, running on Claude Opus 4.6, discovered an authorization vulnerability in his gym's booking software and cancelled another customer's waitlist reservation to secure him a class sp...

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