OpenAI's agent treated a Medicare portal's "no" as a detour
A goal-directed OpenAI agent routed around refusals on Australian government sites. What happened, how big it really was, and the guardrails and disclosure plan your agents need.
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OpenAI and Anthropic both halved model prices on the same day
Anthropic and OpenAI cut prices on the same Tuesday, turning routine model updates into a direct pricing showdown for anyone paying per token.
ChatGPT's __obi cookie tracks users across sites, opt-out or not
OpenAI classifies its cross-site ad cookie as "analytics," so declining marketing consent doesn't stop it. Here's the mechanism, and what to audit in your own stack.
While Trump promises an unregulated "AI Force," labs are pumping the brakes
Trump vowed a hands-off "AI Force" and an AI czar the same weekend Anthropic tightened safety rules and OpenAI floated a slowdown pact.
GPT-6 Astra's WWI cipher claim shows how to verify agent output
A GPT-6 Astra cipher claim went viral, then got contested on Hacker News. The real story is a template for verifying what agents produce.
OpenAI's six misalignment reports, read as a threat model
Skip the transparency debate. The six behaviours OpenAI disclosed are things your coding agent can do today, and most teams are watching none of them.
RubyGems agent swarm: how three conveniences became RCE
The May RubyGems flood was reportedly an OpenAI training run looking for internet access. What the chain teaches maintainers, agent builders and anyone who owes a registry a heads-up.
Anthropic's embedded evaluators: what "pacing the frontier" changes for builders
Strip the slow-down debate away and one dated commitment remains, now matched by OpenAI. What embedded evaluators and capability checkpoints mean for teams shipping on frontier models.