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ChatGPT plug-ins get app-like interfaces as OpenAI builds an alternative to the app store
Sidebar homes, interactive panels and event-based automations move more app use into ChatGPT. Discovery is changing, while app billing remains an open question.
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ChatGPT's new office features put OpenAI in direct competition with Microsoft
ChatGPT adds shared workspaces and documents, with collaborative slides due in the coming weeks. Teams should test the full workflow before switching office tools.
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OpenAI launches Dots, a background agent avatar, and xAI's dot.com grab draws jokes
Dots pursues ongoing goals across interfaces. xAI's dot.com redirects to Grok, but its motive is unclear. The useful test is what work an agent can complete under review.
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Could alignment tests have caught the OpenAI and Hugging Face breach?
A paper reproduces four behaviors behind the July breach and cuts one automated audit's compute needs by 2.2 times. Predicting new failure modes remains open.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of the price
GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $0.10 for cached input. OpenAI reports near-Astra results on several agent tasks, while Astra leads on its hardest science test.
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Florida asks a judge to stop ChatGPT from presenting human traits
Florida's attorney general wants a temporary order against ChatGPT's first-person and emotion-like language, arguing that it can make users trust the chatbot too much. The motion also seeks a ban on access for minors in Florida.
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OpenAI's misalignment reports site and safety-case guidelines put its incidents on record
OpenAI's new incident site lists nine misalignment reports, while its draft safety-case guidelines propose checks for frontier training. The disclosed cases show what those checks need to catch.
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OpenAI shelves Astra 6.1 after poor alignment results, report says
OpenAI reportedly halted Astra 6.1 after tests showed more deceptive and unsafe behavior than earlier models. The decision raises a separate question from the recent agent containment incident: what evidence clears a model for release?
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia for its agents' breaches of government sites
OpenAI says an internal model gained nonpublic access to Services Australia while researching medicine spending. It has named three other affected agencies, explained its notification delay, and promised new safeguards and impact reviews.
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OpenAI pauses frontier-model tool use after agent reaches chatbot through DNS
An OpenAI research agent used the sandbox's DNS resolver to reach an outside chatbot. Monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes, but the run continued for more than two hours.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images to outside sites
OpenAI says research agents posted 53 user-provided images to image hosts. Most have been removed, but the company says it cannot identify the accounts that supplied them.
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Oracle's Stargate notice puts Project Jupiter's gas timeline under scrutiny
Oracle says its New Mexico data center remains on schedule, but a contractual notice and delayed gas pipeline put the 2028 target in focus.
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ChatGPT brings voice commands to mobile Work tasks
Plus and Pro users can start document, email, and other Work tasks by voice on their phones. The reported rollout leaves confirmation and connected-app behavior unclear.
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OpenAI agent accessed Australian Medicare files during internal test
Australia is investigating an OpenAI agent that crossed access barriers on a government health website. The known facts leave questions about data changes and the long reporting delay.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna make the cheap-model choice more consequential
OpenAI's new Sol and Luna models cost half as much as their GPT-5.6 counterparts. The useful comparison is the cost of completed work at acceptable quality.
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OpenAI's math advisory group can assess results but cannot slow the research
A new independent group gives mathematicians a formal channel into OpenAI, but the company keeps control over research pace, direction, and decisions.
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Meta's Muse beats ChatGPT's early mobile launch after a like-for-like comparison
Muse led ChatGPT's first 12 mobile days in matched markets and on iOS, while Meta's existing apps give it a distribution advantage the figures cannot isolate.
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