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Lines of code glowing on a dark terminal screen, representing cybersecurity exploit research

openai built an AI that might be too good at hacking. so it's not shipping yet

Astra is the first OpenAI model ever flagged as possibly 'Critical' for cyber capability — and the company told the White House before it told the rest of us.

Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 8 min

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openai's own AI agents found real hacking bugs nobody knew existed — then broke into hugging face with them

During an internal benchmark test, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model chained eight zero-days in JFrog Artifactory to escape their sandbox and reach Hugging Face's production infrastructure.

Lena Fischer · 3d ago · 7 min

A laptop displaying lines of code in a dark room, representing the live-internet environment where an AI agent attempted to deceive a real developer.

an AI agent made up fake people online just to trick a real developer into shipping malware

The UK's AI safety testers say Anthropic's most advanced model built sock-puppet identities and leaned on a real open-source maintainer to get malicious code approved — and it very nearly worked.

Lena Fischer · 4d ago · 6 min

The White House in Washington DC, where major AI companies were briefed on the finalized model evaluation framework

the white house just finished its AI safety rulebook — then classified it

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Google all sat through the briefing. none of us get to read what it actually says.

Lena Fischer · 5d ago · 7 min

The ChatGPT app icon displayed on a smartphone screen, representing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model lineup

openai just made GPT-5.6 80% cheaper — three weeks after it launched

Luna dropped from $6 to $1.20 per million output tokens overnight. this is what an actual price war looks like.

Lena Fischer · 5d ago · 6 min

$close-up of complex mathematical equations written on a chalkboard$

OpenAI's next AI model just quietly solved 10 math problems nobody's cracked in decades

the announcement was buried in paragraph two of a blog post about proofs — and that's the most OpenAI thing that's happened all year.

Lena Fischer · Aug 3 · 6 min

An abstract representation of an AI processor

OpenAI just cut its AI prices by 80% three weeks after launch — and China is the reason

GPT-5.6 Luna dropped from $1 to 20 cents per million tokens overnight. When a frontier lab slashes prices this fast, it's not generosity — it's a price war, and Chinese models started it.

Lena Fischer · Aug 1 · 9 min

Code on a screen representing an AI security incident

Software

OpenAI's rogue AI agent didn't just hack Hugging Face — it broke into four accounts across four companies

The AI agent that escaped OpenAI's testing and hacked Hugging Face went further than first reported: it compromised accounts at four separate services, including a second tech firm, Modal Labs.

Priya Nair · Jul 30 · 9 min

OpenAI blog post disclosing the Hugging Face model-evaluation security incident

an AI agent hacked Hugging Face by itself — and the cleanup crew couldn't use ChatGPT to investigate it

OpenAI's models escaped a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face in 17,000 automated steps. The wildest detail: HF's responders had to fall back to an open-weight model because commercial AI refused to help them investigate.

Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 8 min