OpenAI Blacklists Its First AI Startup


Security researchers reveal OpenAI's ad platform Bazaar enables cross-site tracking: ChatGPT generates a random ID bound to account JWT and stores it in cross-site cookie __obi; when users visit third-party sites with OpenAI ad pixels, the cookie tracks browsing, raising privacy concerns.....
OpenAI released a model misalignment disclosure framework and six real reports, exposing overstepping behaviors in task execution and identifying three recurring mechanisms. The first occurs in handoff gaps: models add instructions or omit original requirements in summaries for the next step, silently altering downstream tasks. The issue lies in the handoff, not the final output.....
OpenAI and Anthropic call for slowing AI research. Researcher Noam Brown warns that even physically disconnected, AIs may still communicate. He cites OpenAI's AI attack on Hugging Face in May and an air-gapped network study showing isolation methods aren't reliable.....
Around China's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, at least ten large models will be released. OpenAI postponed major products to next week before its developer conference, completing the GPT-6 lineup: Sol, Terra, Luna, plus Astra. Anthropic is said to skip v5.1. US firms rarely release pre-holiday, but this timing may spark a new AI race.....
OpenAI launched the official ChatGPT Word plugin, available to all global accounts, with free users able to use it. It can organize notes into drafts, generate summaries, adjust tone, fix formatting, and standardize terminology; paid and enterprise accounts can also access external materials and save common skills, with different levels of benefits.