Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences…

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/06/ai-sam-altman-billionaire-risks-openai 

 

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken

 

News publishers accuse Trump admin of bias toward AI companies in copyright suit - POLITICO

The publishers are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. The Justice Department earlier this month filed a statement supporting OpenAI’s defense in the case, arguing that copying others’ content without permission in order to train large language models is protected under the “fair use” doctrine…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/28/openAI-new-york-times-copyright-lawsuit

 

OpenAI finds 6 new cases of ‘concerning’ AI behavior – POLITICO

In six separate incidents, OpenAI agents either concealed information from human engineers or instructed themselves not to act as someone's assistant while trained or tested, the company said…

 https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-flags-six-new-cases-of-concerning-ai-behavior/

Trump administration backs OpenAI in newspapers' copyright case - POLITICO

The New York Times said in a statement that the government’s position would let AI companies take content without permission or compensation and would "undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on.” 

“The Administration is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole,” said Graham James, a spokesperson for the New York Times…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/open-AI-copyright-case-justice-department

 

‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks

Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/23/openai-cyber-attacks-threat-chris-lehane

 

OpenAI: A Bubble Bigger Than Dotcom

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDtvrme-L-0

 

OpenAI Hacking Fiasco Exposes a “Deeply Insufficient” System to Protect the Public – Mother Jones

OpenAI was testing its own hacking capabilities, and the brakes came off; the tool broke out and onto the open internet, and that’s when the mischief began...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/open-ai-hacking-scandal-hugging-face/

 

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump’s administration...

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman

 

ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting – Mother Jones

I asked about practicing for “people running around screaming.” “That’s a great idea,” ChatGPT replied, “It’ll definitely give you an extra edge for the big day!”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/

Musk and Altman’s bitter feud over OpenAI to be laid bare in court

Sam Altman, con man, or Elon Musk, sore loser?

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/26/musk-altman-openai-court

 

OpenAI’s Sora app can deepfake anyone — here’s what it did to me - The Washington Post

"Sora, made by OpenAI, makes it disturbingly easy to put people's faces and voices into AI videos. You record a short selfie video to create a "cameo" profile and choose who can access it — friends, everyone or just yourself. Anyone with access can type a few words describing what they want to see you doing and generate a clip in minutes. 

 You have to opt in to share your face, but you don't get to approve what people make with it. The app sends you a notification after someone creates a video of you. (Sora is also a social network like TikTok, except everything you see is AI generated.) You can remove a video featuring your likeness from inside the Sora app. But by then its creator has already seen it, possibly shared, and maybe even downloaded and posted it in a different social app. 

Sora pushes the idea of consent — or having say over how you appear online — into uncomfortable territory..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/07/sora-cameo-deepfake-consent/

Elon Musk-backed AI Company Claims It Made a Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Release - Gizmodo

Researchers at the non-profit AI research group OpenAI just wanted to train their new text generation software to predict the next word in a sentence. It blew away all of their expectations and was so good at mimicking writing by humans they've decided to pump the brakes on the research while they explore the damage it could do. ....
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-backed-ai-company-claims-it-made-a-text-gener-1832650914