OpenAI just launched Codex Security, a new research preview AI agent focused on identifying and fixing app security issues. Separately, it announced the Codex Open Source Fund is also now including “conditional access” to Codex Security as part of the six-month ChatGPT Pro with Codex subscriptions it’s offering open source developers.
The move is an effort to appease antitrust regulators from the European Commission, Reuters reports. Previously, competitors’ chatbots were being blocked on WhatsApp, but now Meta says that “for a fee” it will “support general purpose AI chatbots using the WhatsApp Business API in Europe” for the next 12 months.
Companies that do business with the US military are pivoting away from Anthropic’s AI after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he was designating it a “supply chain risk” last week, CNBC reports. While Anthropic can still challenge the designation in court, defense companies say they’re abandoning Claude preemptively “out of an abundance of caution.”
A non-profit called Open Knowledge Association has been using AI to translate Wikipedia articles, leading to “hallucinations” that included incorrect, fabricated, replaced, and unrelated sources, 404 Media reports. Wikipedia editors are now placing restrictions on OKA translators, including blocking them if too many of their contributions are found with errors.
