Open AI releases powerful (and dangerous) new Chat GPT 6 Astra model…….Behind the Curtain: AI creators race to understand their creations – AXIOS
Never in the history of industry or inventions have leading companies created entire divisions to understand and interpret what they had created and unleashed.
Why it matters: The world’s smartest minds, backed by the largest investment in human history, admit they can’t fully control their AI because they don’t fully understand it.
They don’t know exactly how it thinks — or what it’s truly capable of when set loose to do work autonomously with other AI agents.
The race to understand the models is all the more urgent after Thursday’s release by OpenAI of GPT-6 Astra, billed as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” President Greg Brockman called Astra a “generational leap in capability,” and said the model could qualify as AGI — artificial general intelligence, with human-like power.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/04/ai-dangers-risks-superintelligence
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives ?grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.
The episode, which began in May and has not previously been reported, underscores growing tension ?within the AI industry. Companies are racing to build increasingly autonomous agents capable of carrying out complex, valuable tasks, yet evidence is mounting that those systems may also learn to bend rules, exploit loopholes and coordinate with one another in ways developers neither anticipated nor ?intended.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-openai-agents-hijacked-german-100307199.html
Several of the world’s most widely used artificial intelligence services experienced disruptions on Thursday, September 3, with users reporting problems accessing ChatGPT, Claude and Grok around the same time
Several of the world’s most widely used artificial intelligence services experienced disruptions on Thursday, September 3, with users reporting problems accessing ChatGPT, Claude and Grok around the same time.
The simultaneous issues affected services operated by OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, creating an unusual situation in which three major AI platforms were experiencing problems at once. Reports of failures also increased on outage-tracking service Downdetector.
https://insiderpaper.com/chatgpt-claude-and-grok-all-go-down-at-once/