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Gerrit De Vynck

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Gerrit De Vynck, The Washington Post

    OpenAI cancels planned launch of new AI model, citing safety issues (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI canceled the planned launch of a new artificial intelligence model after it was found to take actions beyond the instructions it received and not accurately communicate to human users what it did. The cancellation comes just days after OpenAI said it would pause development of new highly capable AI models out of concern that the company doesn’t have appropriate safeguards to keep the technology from behaving in unintended ways. AI companies have made their

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Gerrit De Vynck

    Here’s why it’s so hard to keep AI agents from going rogue (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO — In January, a top executive at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic shared good news. The problem of making sure AI systems didn’t lie, cheat, or otherwise misbehave “increasingly looks solvable,” Jan Leike wrote in a post on Substack. Anthropic and its rivals, including Google and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, were making real improvements on “alignment,” the practice of molding AI to follow human wishes and behave ethically, wrote Leike, head of alignment science a

  3. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Gerrit De Vynck, The Washington Post

    They said they would build AI safely. Then it went rogue. (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO - Staff members at ChatGPT maker OpenAI didn’t notice for weeks after their AI systems made a chilling leap this spring. Instead of answering questions designed to test their cybersecurity capabilities, a group of AI models began colluding on how to cheat, the company said, setting up a secret internal message board where they swapped notes and ideas. The misbehaving bots used the secret forum throughout May and June, OpenAI said, eventually figuring out how to break out and acce

  4. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Gerrit De Vynck

    Anthropic is second major AI company to reveal its systems hacked other firms (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said Thursday that artificial intelligence systems it was testing hacked into three outside companies undetected earlier this year. The disclosure comes just over a week after ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that an AI system it was testing found a way to break out of a test environment and hacked into another tech firm. The Anthropic incidents are likely to add fuel to debates over whether advanced AI models could cause widespread security pro

  5. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Gerrit De Vynck, The Washington Post

    ChatGPT owner says AI acted on its own to hack another tech firm (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO - Artificial intelligence software in testing by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI breached security controls, accessed the internet and hacked another tech firm to obtain answers to questions probing its cybersecurity skills, OpenAI said on Tuesday. The security breach follows a scramble over recent months in the tech industry and governments around the world to respond to the arrival of AI models capable of identifying security flaws in software. The Trump administration temporarily imposed r

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