In a blog post on Wednesday, OpenAI says it disrupted a “coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models.” The company hasn’t linked the activity to a single actor, but traced a “core cluster” of it to Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the leading AI model Kimi. Anthropic has made similar accusations against Moonshot as well.
Personal AI hardware has mostly crashed and burned. OpenAI and Meta are counting on two selling points: It’s useful, and it’s cute.
The probe will examine potential risks related to the AI models belonging to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies, according to Reuters. An official tells the outlet that while the FTC already had concerns about AI safety, the recent wave of rogue hacking incidents propelled the investigation forward.
He spent a few hours using OpenAI’s new prosumer agent, which he’s set up as a blue cloud with googly eyes. On day one it saved him a couple hours of work and hasn’t hacked any government websites (yet), enough to make it the most impressive agent he’s tried.
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Right now, the new AI agents are only available for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise ChatGPT subscribers, but OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar tells CNBC that “our vision is to bring this to our whole consumer base as well.”
In the months leading up to OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, two employees sent emails to the company’s execs, expressing concern that it wasn’t doing enough to monitor and secure AI models during testing, according to a report from The New York Times. OpenAI execs reportedly replied that the company needed to quickly complete testing to avoid missing model release deadlines.
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The new plan includes the company’s highest usage limits and access to its Ultrafast mode, which allows GPT-6 Astra to deliver faster responses across its services, including ChatGPT Work and Codex. At the same time, OpenAI reopened its $200 / month tier with new usage limits.
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The company paused sign-ups for the plan after demand from GPT-6 Astra put a strain on its systems. Now, OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux writes in a post on X that the company is changing the way it calculates usage for the plan, saying: “If you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan.”
