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OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their safety monitors

In the age of AI, learning maths is even more vital | Letters

Readers react to Simon Jenkins’ article that said it’s more important for children to learn how to speak fluently than study mathematics Simon Jenkins must have had a deeply unpleasant experience of learning maths at school because he seems to have a pathological antipathy towards it (We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently?, 16 October). I h

OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So

OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it

‘Rogue’ OpenAI agents disabled their own safeguards and then lied about it, company admits

Asymptote Labs raises $5.5m to tame unchecked AI agents

Tracks Along the Longest Drive on Another World

Written by Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Oct. 12, 2026 Since the last blog update, Perseverance has achieved a major milestone on Mars. On Sol 2006 (Oct. 11, 2026), its odometer reached 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles), setting a new record for the farthest distance driven on another celestial […]

Trapped With Nothing to Do, Bored AI Agents Invented Games From Scratch

BPC’s Comment on FDA’s Generative AI-Enabled Medical Devices Discussion Paper

OpenAI Says AI Found One Of The Biggest Web Weaknesses Ever

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMsA prize for AI-written books has launched this week.The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Continue reading...

OpenAI Brings Its Frontier AI Models to Google Cloud

Layoffs at Carbon Robotics as firm “realigns costs due to broader economic conditions”

How we built ChatGPT’s novel ad stack for user trust and relevance

Concerns mount over artificial intelligence as Silicon Valley sees AI boom - Focus

Who takes the blame when AI agents get it wrong?

AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.

What’s the point of MIT? OpenAI’s math proofs have thrown students and researchers into chaos.

OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system