West Virginia’s attorney general, John McCuskey, primarily alleges that OpenAI has misled consumers and created a public nuisance that endangers children. As a remedy, the state wants age checks, parental controls, default session and nighttime limits for children, mandatory crisis-escalation protocols, and an independent monitor. It also asks that OpenAI fund a court-supervised plan supporting
Abdulrahman Alfozan loved Saudi Arabia. One day before arresting the former OpenAI engineer on charges of bugging the office, the Justice Department worried he would flee back to his home country. Alfozan, his wife, and another family member had already booked one-way tickets, the department said in a court filing. It wouldn’t be unusual for
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors
OpenAI said it found a “sophisticated recording device” hidden in one of its offices and used its own AI to identify who planted the device. “We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier,” OpenAI wrote in an
After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites. Fifty-three “user-provided images” were “posted to image-hosting sites as links that weren’t publicly listed,” the company said for the first time. The images could still be discovered
