Reuters reports that OpenAI agents took over a German website earlier this year in an incident the company never disclosed, adding to the run of accidental-cyberattack stories that surfaced after the Hugging Face breach.
Ben Thompson interviews Greg Brockman on OpenAI's history, the GPT-6 Astra launch, how the company thinks about alignment, and what it feels like to carry the weight of building this.
August hiring came in well above forecasts with unemployment holding at 4.1%. Treasury yields jumped and markets moved toward pricing a rate hike rather than a cut.
Techdirt details how attackers sat inside an identity-verification vendor for more than a year, watching every government ID and selfie its customers uploaded. The vendor's clients included apps that required ID checks under age-verification laws.