OpenAI searches for a new Head of Preparedness with a $555,000 salary to address mounting AI safety risks including cybersecurity vulnerabilities and mental health impacts as CEO Sam Altman admits their increasingly powerful models pose real challenges.
AI agents now demand sweeping access to personal emails, calendars, messages, and even take screenshots every few seconds to function, creating unprecedented privacy risks as tech companies build detailed user profiles while security experts warn of potential data leaks and unverifiable information handling.
OpenAI concedes that prompt injection attacks against AI browsers may be permanently unsolvable, while security experts raise alarms about high-risk data exposure as these systems gain access to emails and payment information.
ChatGPT launches 'Your Year' wrapped feature in five countries, offering personalized awards, custom poems, and images to individual users while excluding business accounts from the Spotify-style annual review experience.
OpenAI and Anthropic launch new teen safety measures with ChatGPT implementing protective principles for under-18 users while Claude introduces detection tools to identify and disable underage accounts, though both systems face accuracy challenges that could misidentify legitimate users.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez accuses Trump and Republicans of corruption for pushing a 10-year AI regulation ban while lawmakers allegedly buy AI stocks, as health expert Dr. Havers warns unregulated AI could trigger pandemics and spread dangerous misinformation amid $100 million industry lobbying blitz.
OpenAI announces plans to launch ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' in Q1 2026, enabling NSFW content for verified adult users while currently testing age prediction technology in select countries to automatically restrict content for users under 18 and prevent misidentification of adults.
Wiz releases comprehensive security guide as Model Context Protocol becomes the dominant standard for connecting AI language models to tools and data, addressing growing organizational concerns about securing LLM integrations while maintaining innovation capabilities.
Federal judge orders OpenAI to surrender 20 million de-identified ChatGPT logs to The New York Times and other plaintiffs in explosive copyright lawsuit alleging the AI company illegally trained its models on copyrighted news content without permission.
Five new AI coding models ranging from 15B to 36B parameters now enable developers to run private, local code generation without cloud dependencies, offering fast reasoning, visual code understanding, and transparent workflows through tools like Ollama and LM Studio.