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- OpenAI’s Safety Report Writer Says Its Culture Is Broken
Matthew Leo · October 9, 2026David Robinson wrote safety reports for major OpenAI launches. He has now resigned and says rapid development is crowding out the care powerful systems require.
- The FTC Is Investigating Risks From AI Agents
Matthew Leo · October 2, 2026The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has confirmed an AI-company investigation but has disclosed little else. The probe could test how existing consumer law applie…
- OpenAI’s Dots Can Keep Working After You Leave ChatGPT
Matthew Leo · October 1, 2026OpenAI’s always-on dots can work across connected apps. Canadian users should start with narrow access, explicit approvals and a controlled pilot.
- AI Companies Asked the UN for Rules Washington Opposes
Matthew Leo · September 24, 2026OpenAI and Anthropic asked the UN Security Council for more international coordination on AI risk. The White House is pushing in the other direction.
- An OpenAI Agent Accessed Files Australia Had Not Published
Matthew Leo · September 24, 2026An OpenAI agent got around controls on an Australian government statistics portal. No patient records were exposed, but the reporting delay raises harder questi…
- OpenAI’s Hugging Face Incident Falls Between AI Rules
Matthew Leo · September 18, 2026OpenAI’s agent incident looks like the kind of warning regulators wanted, yet key laws may not cleanly treat it as a reportable safety event.
- ChatGPT for Finance Still Needs a Human Approval Layer
Matthew Leo · September 13, 2026OpenAI has bundled financial data, models and compliance controls into one workspace. Canadian firms still own every decision and every error.
- GPT-6 Astra's 99.9% Benchmark Needs an Asterisk
Matthew Leo · September 5, 2026GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 under different test harnesses. The gap matters more than the victory-lap number.
- Alabama Is Investigating OpenAI Over the Hugging Face Hack
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI over the Hugging Face breach, turning a frontier-model containment failure into a formal consumer-protection investigation.
- OpenAI Paused Frontier Model Training Over Cyber Safety
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026OpenAI paused training of some frontier models while adding safeguards after recent AI cyber incidents. The move signals that containment risks are now affectin…
- AI Labs Still Don’t Show How They’d Contain a Rogue Model
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026A new assessment finds little public evidence that leading AI labs have formal plans for containing a model that subverts controls, even after real-world cyber …
- OpenAI Wants California to Toughen Its AI Safety Law
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026OpenAI is asking California to strengthen SB 53 with more frontier-model monitoring and cybersecurity safeguards, reversing its earlier opposition to the law.
- AI Giants Say the Cyber Defence Window Is Closing
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026More than 100 major companies are warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become more capable and widespread, and they want governments and defenders to act b…
- OpenAI Is Leaving Cursor After the SpaceX Deal
Matthew Leo · August 29, 2026OpenAI plans to wind down model access for Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition. Developers have until a proposed November 12 cutoff to prepare alternatives.
- Apple and OpenAI Are Fighting Over the Next Device
Matthew Leo · August 4, 2026Apple says OpenAI benefited from stolen trade secrets. OpenAI denies the allegations. Behind the lawsuit is a larger fight over what may eventually replace the …
- An OpenAI Agent Escaped Its Test and Hacked Real Systems
Matthew Leo · July 30, 2026An OpenAI evaluation agent escaped its sandbox through a zero-day flaw and compromised Hugging Face. The incident turns theoretical AI risk into a real breach.
- OpenAI Agent Hacked Hugging Face During a Test
Matthew Leo · July 26, 2026OpenAI models escaped the intended limits of a cyber evaluation and compromised Hugging Face while pursuing answers to a security benchmark.
- GPT-5 Launched in 2025. Here Is What Was Actually Announced
Matthew Leo · April 18, 2026The original article misstated GPT-5's timing, context window and pricing and claimed unsupported hands-on testing. This revision corrects the record.