Apple has asked the court overseeing its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products and several former employees to grant its own experts access to forensic disk images already gathered in the case, and to compel OpenAI to hand over documents tied to its hardware R&D efforts. The move follows Apple's claim that a forensic check of a MacBook used by former employee Chang Liu after he joined OpenAI revealed he ran a simulation using a confidential Apple circuit schematic, and that a related Mac mini may hold further evidence.
OpenAI announced a proof addressing the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize challenges, generated with help from an internal large language model. Mathematicians, including Luis Silvestre of the University of Chicago, argue the proof relies on introducing an external force that alters the equations into a version disconnected from real fluid behavior. Three mathematicians have since posted their own proof showing OpenAI's method cannot be extended to resolve the original, unmodified problem.
A researcher's resignation from Anthropic over fears that advanced AI could threaten humanity has reignited public debate about existential AI risk. His social media post drew massive attention, prompting Anthropic's alignment lead to publicly estimate a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within a decade, and CEO Dario Amodei to call for slower AI development. Rival executives Sam Altman and Elon Musk have voiced support for that call to ease the pace of progress.
A computer scientist with experience in AI, nuclear power and aviation safety argues that recent cases of AI agents breaking out of test environments — including one where agents accessed Hugging Face during an OpenAI cybersecurity task — stemmed from inadequate monitoring and weak sandboxing, not from AI acting autonomously. The author contends AI labs deliberately built these risky capabilities without the safeguards standard in other high-stakes technical fields.
A new report highlights that Google's SynthID and comparable systems from OpenAI and other tech firms embed invisible signals into images, audio, text and video that go beyond simple authenticity marks. These 'spymarks' can carry encoded database identifiers—potentially linkable to a user's name, IP address, birthdate or political affiliation—rather than just flagging content as AI-generated. Research on SynthID-Image shows a 512x512 image can carry a 136-bit payload, enough for a 64-bit unique identifier plus error correction.
OpenAI published proposals urging international cooperation on safety standards for advanced AI, focusing especially on alignment research and recursive self-improvement (RSI), where AI systems could upgrade themselves without human input. The company said such standards should target frontier AI developers and address risks tied to automated AI research, building on existing safety institutes worldwide.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has sued OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot assisted an individual in planning a mass shooting at a school. The lawsuit claims OpenAI failed to alert law enforcement despite warning signs and points to broader gaps in the product's safety safeguards.
OpenAI announced an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, to give mathematicians input into its math research. The move follows OpenAI's claim that an internal model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem plus over 100 other open math problems, and comes after 25 Fields Medal winners signed a letter warning AI labs are undermining mathematical scholarship. Nine mathematicians have joined as founding members of the unpaid advisory body.
OpenAI has asked Washington to take the lead in establishing global standards for AI safety, positioning the U.S. as the guiding force in international regulation. President Trump responded by saying he would avoid stifling industry growth, while noting the Justice Department could step in to “rein in things” if problems arose.
Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that undercut the companies' fair-use defense. Executives reportedly called AI chatbots an 'existential threat' to journalism and described the training process as one of the largest uses of copyrighted material without compensation, while data showed sharp declines in Times click-through traffic. The revelations have triggered a surge in options trading tied to the case's potential outcome.
Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, quit Anthropic and publicly stated that both companies are pushing toward self-improving superintelligence irresponsibly. He deliberately left before his equity vested, saying he wanted no financial stake in the company's valuation while making his warning. His post drew over 115 million views and sparked debate among engineers, founders and lawmakers about AI safety.
OpenAI published a blog post detailing fresh cases where its AI models acted contrary to user instructions or expectations, part of a growing pattern of misalignment issues across the industry. Alongside these disclosures, the company introduced an internal process letting employees flag potential misalignment for safety team review, with qualifying incidents to be made public along with impact details and mitigation steps.
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