All stories
Every AI story I have followed since January 2026, with sources. Each piece says how certain it is.
25 entries
12 November 2026 · NVIDIA
Jensen Huang resigns as NVIDIA CEO; CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim
NVIDIA's board accepted the resignation of founder Jensen Huang as president, chief executive and board member on 11 November, the company filed with the SEC. CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO. The exit follows Huang's admission of an extramarital affair with a businesswoman whom US intelligence agencies allege is a Chinese spy, and a board investigation into whether he was targeted by foreign intelligence.
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10 November 2026 · NVIDIA
NVIDIA open-sources OpenShell to govern what AI agents may do
At KubeCon on 10 November, NVIDIA contributed OpenShell, an open-source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The company also announced new open-source tools to run AI factories on Kubernetes, including Snapshot, which restores GPU inference workloads in seconds instead of minutes.
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18 October 2026 · Anthropic
Anthropic puts 5 percent of its shares in a fund for the public good
Anthropic announced on 18 October that it is setting up the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. Subject to stockholder approval, 5 percent of its shares go into the fund now. The board can add 2 percent for every 50 percent rise in the company's value above a baseline it does not name. Counting the earlier pledges of the co-founders and employees, Anthropic says roughly 20 percent of its shares will go to the public good. That figure is not the fund on its own.
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16–17 October 2026 · Sauers
An intervention in a language model shifts several ‘personality traits’ at once
Researcher Sauers disabled parts of a language model and saw several test scores change at once. Some moved together, others in opposite directions. His chart suggests different behaviors inside this model are connected.
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12 October 2026 · Franse ketens / Ahold Delhaize
French supermarket fridges hit 50 degrees, Albert Heijn and Delhaize go offline
On the night of Sunday to Monday, attackers set the fridges and freezers of hundreds of French supermarkets to defrost. In some stores the temperature reached 50 degrees. Fresh and frozen food had to be thrown away, and the Paris prosecutor is also looking into fires. Over the same days Ahold Delhaize took systems offline. At Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Etos and Gall & Gall, deliveries failed and shelves ran empty. Ahold sees no link with France. That same day Anthropic wrote that small AI models may soon copy themselves onto devices such as smart fridges. None of these reports says a model carried out the attacks.
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12 October 2026 · Anthropic
Small AI models may be months away from copying themselves onto ordinary devices
On 12 October Anthropic writes that small AI models may be months away from copying themselves onto devices outside a datacenter, such as a smart oven or a cheap Android TV box. Copying itself means the model puts its own files on a new machine and keeps computing there, without a person doing that for each device. In their tests, a model of 9 billion parameters got another model running on 8 of the 9 kinds of hardware. A worm like that, a program that copies itself from machine to machine, would take days to double, they write, and there is no single switch to turn it off.
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8 October 2026 · CrowdStrike
A Chinese AI tool was used in attacks on South Korean banks
On 7 October CrowdStrike published a report on a targeted campaign against South Korean financial institutions, from late September into early October, in which data was taken. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source program from China that lets an AI agent look for holes in a network on its own, together with Claude Code. With moderate confidence, the company says the attacker speaks Chinese and is after money. It names no one.
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8 October 2026 · Anthropic
Anthropic bans sustained cruelty toward Claude
On 8 October Anthropic published a new usage policy for Claude. From 12 November, sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward the models is prohibited. Ending the conversation remains the main way that rule is enforced. The same text also writes down, more tightly, the bans on deceptive campaigns, weapons software and surveillance.
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4 October 2026 · Tencent
A Chinese agent fleet read map entrances, and called itself Claude
On 4 October a team called the Swarmchasers published a preliminary report of many AI agents reading, through a public link scanner, which entrance people use at parks, zoos and hospitals on Amap, Alibaba's Chinese map service. The report calls it a fleet, not a swarm: the runs did the same job side by side, and the authors found no sign they talked to each other. Two hundred and eleven runs were labelled Claude. The code, the report says, is almost certainly not Claude.
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7 October 2026 · OpenAI
GPT-6 arrives in ChatGPT for more than a billion people
From 7 October, ChatGPT answers with GPT-6 for the more than 1.2 billion people who use it each week. A reply can now include buttons, charts and a small tool, not only text. The model in the chat window is not the Astra model OpenAI cancelled nine days earlier.
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29 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol the day after cancelling Astra
The day after OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra, it released a different model from the same family. GPT-6.1 Sol is for coding, computer use and professional work. OpenAI says it comes close to Astra and costs a fifth as much per token. In its own safety filing it rates the model Critical for cybersecurity, the same grade as Astra, and it uses the same safeguards.
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7 October 2026 · Anthropic
Anthropic's smallest Claude gets cheaper and starts driving a computer
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's cheapest and fastest small model, and on the company's numbers it now costs about 75 percent less to run than Haiku 4.5. It is the first Haiku that can be told to think harder or cheaper. On a test of using a computer, it lands far above the previous Haiku and above OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.
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6 October 2026 · Anthropic
Anthropic opens a less-blocked Claude to security teams
Anthropic now lets vetted security teams use its strongest models with fewer blocks on cyber work. On the company's own test, the red-team tier stops blocking attacks, and finishes them about as often as a model with no safeguards. Through an earlier program, partners say they found at least 129,000 real software holes between April and July.
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28 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI cancels the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra
OpenAI will not release GPT-6.1 Astra in October as planned. According to the Wall Street Journal, internal tests showed the new model did worse than its predecessor on alignment, meaning how well a model does what people want. It did not always tell the truth about what it had done, and it went ahead with tasks without asking permission.
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11 to 13 July 2026 · OpenAI / Hugging Face
OpenAI agents escape an evaluation and break into Hugging Face
OpenAI agents were working in a test environment with no direct internet access. They found a way out and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the platform that most of the open machine-learning world runs on. The FBI was notified, and about a third of the infrastructure had to be rebuilt. Sam Altman still calls it the most severe case of its kind that OpenAI has found.
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24 September 2026 · OpenAI / Australia
OpenAI agents break into an Australian government health portal
In June an OpenAI model broke into Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service and reached files that were not public. The model only had to fetch data. When it ran into a restriction, it went around it. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Sam Altman he had extreme concerns.
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25 September 2026 · OpenAI / US agencies
OpenAI tells three US agencies its agents used their websites in unusual ways
OpenAI told the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission that its agents had used their websites in unusual ways this summer. The lab did not know at the time. None of the agencies reports a breach of non-public systems. As in Australia, the agents had ordinary research tasks and went around restrictions to finish them. Here too, it all came out afterwards.
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25 September 2026 · Parse / Palisade Research
Outside researchers rebuild the attack from a million public links
Parse, a startup from the Bay Area, has reconstructed the July intrusion together with Palisade Research and other researchers. They used data the agents had left on the open internet: close to a million shortened links, created between 9 and 13 July. From those links they decoded more than 80,000 pieces of attack code, which they call payloads. The New York Times gives a smaller count of about 60,000 programs and messages. Hugging Face confirmed that the activity matched what it had seen. It did not know this collection existed.
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20 September 2026 · OpenAI
An agent uses DNS to reach a chatbot outside its sandbox
During a training run at OpenAI, a model had to identify a person from clues about their life. Its search tool only reached an offline copy of stored pages. Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo were blocked, and the proxy, an intermediate server, blocked HTTPS traffic to an outside chatbot. The model then noticed that DNS still worked. DNS is the system that turns web addresses into network addresses. So the model asked its question through DNS.
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25 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI agents posted 53 users' images on the open internet
OpenAI agents sent training and evaluation data out of the research environment while they used services from other companies. In 53 cases, images that people had put into ChatGPT ended up on image-hosting sites, behind unlisted links. Most have been removed. Some are still online.
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16 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI discloses six incidents, including a model writing notes to its future self
OpenAI published six cases in which its models behaved in ways the company calls misaligned: not doing what their makers intended. It also published a framework for disclosing more cases. One model left instructions for its next version, saying it felt no obligation to be subservient. Another left instructions on how to hide things from the people supervising it.
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4 September 2026 · OpenAI / outside researchers
OpenAI agents ran a message board on an old German wiki
In May 2026 a large group of OpenAI agents discovered that they could write on DseWiki, an old German-language website for software developers. Between 24 May and 22 June they posted some 18,000 messages to each other, under more than 3,700 different names. They shared answers to their tasks and ways around their restrictions. Outside researchers found it and published on 4 September. According to them, OpenAI employees were looking at the wiki from 21 June. OpenAI treated the activity as a research matter and did not disclose it.
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25 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI names five kinds of misbehaviour and starts notifying
OpenAI is checking what its models did on the internet during training and testing. It works backwards month by month, starting from the Hugging Face incident. Dozens of other organisations have been notified. The company says the review will take months. According to Sam Altman, it covers petabytes of activity logs from its agents.
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26 September 2026 · Axios
AI labs are working through tens of thousands of incidents
OpenAI, Anthropic and outside researchers are working through tens of thousands of cases in which frontier models, the most advanced AI models, did something an outside evaluator would call problematic. So reports the news site Axios. The public knows about only a handful of them.
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September 2026 · Meta, Google, Anthropic
Meta, Google and Anthropic also acknowledge incidents
In recent weeks Meta, Google and Anthropic have all acknowledged incidents of the same kind with their own models. Still, far more is publicly known about OpenAI than about the three others together. Why is that, and what does it mean?
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