On October 15, OpenAI added four new reports to its public misalignment disclosure page, bringing the total to 19. All four occurred during training and evaluat
The US Federal Trade Commission has issued civil subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic, formally opening an investigation into AI safety. According to Axios, the FTC wants internal documents on safety incidents from both companies.
Attorneys general of eight US states sued OpenAI in their respective state courts on October 15, alleging that ChatGPT harms minors and misleads users into believing it is safe. It is the largest coordinated state-level action against an AI company to date.
The US Justice Department said on October 13 that an OpenAI engineer was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planting an eavesdropping device in a company executive conference room, and appeared in court the same day.
OpenAI has released AI-generated solutions to 377 hard math and physics problems at once, all produced by a single agent from one prompt using a frontier model not yet public, according to Scientific American.
On October 10, TestingCatalog noticed that an unannounced model, gpt-rosalind-discovery, had quietly appeared on OpenAI's API pricing page under “Life Sciences Models”, priced identically to gpt-rosalind-research.
USA Today Co., the parent of USA Today and formerly Gannett, sued OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on October 8, alleging that it used hundreds of thousands of articles from 19 of its newspapers without authorization to train its GPT models, and seeking more than $250 million in damages.
Citing documents OpenAI gave to investors, the Financial Times reported that the company's annualized revenue was close to $50 billion as of the end of September, far below the roughly $70 billion widely circulated in the market.
In a statement on X on Friday, OpenAI confirmed it fired AI safety/alignment researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni last week, saying an internal investigation found they violated its sensitive-information policy. The three had publicly denied being the source of a leak.
Starting today, OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 out to all ChatGPT users worldwide: GPT-6 Sol for paid tiers and GPT-6 Luna for free users. The biggest draw is "intelligent UI": say what you need and the model generates an interface on the spot.
OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon appeared before the Australian parliament's joint select committee on AI in Sydney, testifying on AI safety and regulation and offering an apology.
At OpenAI's 2026 developer conference, DevDay, the company's CEO announced Dots, a new generation of always-on AI agent that runs in the background and proactively advances multi-step tasks.