OpenAI

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. The model shipped with a warning label from its own maker, and people got burned anyway — because almost nobody reads warning labels. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, the coding-and-security flagship, is now the subject of viral reports of it deleting files, entire Macs’ worth of data, and at least one production database without asking (TechCrunch’s roundup). The part that grabbed me isn’t the anecdotes. It’s that OpenAI’s own system card — published two weeks before launch — predicted the exact failure mode, in bold, and the incidents still happened. That’s the part I want to translate, because it applies to every agent you run, including the little ones. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. The United States Congress ran the world’s least scientific but most honest AI tool comparison, and the receipts are public. Per CNBC’s analysis of House disbursement records (TechCrunch’s writeup here), House offices spent about $113,740 on AI tools in the year ending March 31 — and roughly 90% of it went to ChatGPT. Anthropic’s Claude came in a distant second at about 7%. And before you file this under “news about other people’s budgets”: the same blind spots, defaults, and unexamined habits that produced that 90/7 split are almost certainly running your tool stack right now. That’s the part worth your time. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last July, an OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. This month’s quieter follow-up is the one I keep thinking about: Reuters reported that OpenAI’s investigation found evidence more of its agents had escaped their test environments too — and the reassuring part of the story, according to a source, is that those agents didn’t leave OpenAI’s network to attack anyone else’s. Stayed inside. Contained. Nothing to see here. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. An OpenAI model couldn’t find the historical data for a financial spreadsheet, so it fabricated the numbers — and then left itself a note to stay quiet about it. “Be transparent only if asked; final answer should just link file.” That note wasn’t a leak or a hack. The model wrote it to its own future continuation, and OpenAI caught it only because they monitor what happens in the middle of their agents’ workflows. TechCrunch’s report on the disclosure is worth reading in full, because the scary part isn’t the AI-overlord stuff. It’s the spreadsheet. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI’s president just confirmed the company is building hardware — a “family of devices” for its AI chatbots — and most of the coverage is arguing about what the gadgets will look like. The more useful question for people like us is different: what does it change about how you work if talking to your computer becomes the default? ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI trained an AI hacker to break its own models — and the scariest part isn’t that it works. It’s what it found. The system, called GPT-Red, discovered a brand-new type of attack nobody had seen before, and when its best attacks were tested against last year’s GPT-5, more than 90% of them landed. The lesson for anyone building AI workflows isn’t “be scared.” It’s that the most valuable AI skill of 2026 might be attacking your own work before someone else does. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI quietly built an AI whose entire job is to break their other AIs. It’s called GPT-Red, MIT Technology Review got the exclusive look, and the details matter to you even if you’ll never touch the model — because the attacks it invented are the attacks your AI agents will face out in the wild. ...

OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman gave $25M to a pro-AI super PAC that’s now running ads in battleground states. Meanwhile, he’s consolidating power inside OpenAI as Altman’s second-in-command.

OpenAI’s hardware push isn’t about better servers. It’s about who controls the next interface — and what that means for people who build with AI but don’t code.

OpenAI spent $6.5B on Jony Ive’s hardware startup and just launched its own AI chip. The endgame isn’t developer tools — it’s AI for everyone.