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Sept 2 (Reuters) – ⁠OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown ⁠capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by ‌Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, the The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has…

Chris Malone, the executive who ran OpenAI’s data center buildout, has left the company. The Wall Street Journal broke the story last week, and an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the departure to Bloomberg the same day.

OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also integrate ChatGPT directly within EHR workflows.

ChatGPT Work’s new event-triggered scheduled tasks offer an intriguing alternative to the compulsive email checking that fills my days. The feature essentially acts as an AI-powered secretary, screening your Gmail inbox, Slack channels, and other communication channels, then alerting you or responding as you request in a prompt.

The European Union has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOP), putting them in the same enhanced regulatory tier as the likes of Google, Facebook, TikTok and Amazon.

Apple today submitted new evidence in its lawsuit against OpenAI, with the hope that the new information will persuade the judge to grant an expedited discovery process.

In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works at OpenAI — handed over Liu’s old Apple work laptop for investigation…

AI models are designed to make our job easy by following instructions and sticking to them, not quietly working around them. However, new research suggests that’s exactly what is happening far more often than most people realize. 

For Cursor users who suddenly found themselves caught in the middle of an AI industry spat, the timing could hardly be worse. OpenAI is reportedly moving to cut off Cursor’s direct access to its models – but Anthropic is stepping in with a rather convenient alternative.