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A screenshot circulated online showing the US Federal Register's search interface offering Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3:0.6B language model as a search option alongside the default semantic search. About a day after the screenshot spread, the Qwen options disappeared from the site, though an archived snapshot from September 16 confirms they existed.
ChatGPT's memory feature has evolved from requiring users to explicitly say 'remember this' into an automatic system that continuously updates and revises what it retains about you, a process OpenAI calls 'dreaming.' This means the chatbot now decides on its own what details from your conversations to keep, edit, or discard, shaping how it responds to future prompts.
TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI RLHF researcher Diogo Almeida, has emerged from two years of stealth development with $40 million in funding and its first product, a model called Jev. Rather than generating conversational text like ChatGPT, Jev is built to deliver fast, cheap yes/no or categorical decisions—in about a tenth of a second and for a fraction of a cent—aimed at software-to-software interactions rather than human chat.
Developer Prinz used an AI system called GPT-6 Astra to break a 108-year-old encrypted German WWI radio message, one of 50 unsolved ciphers listed on the German site Scienceblogs.de. The AI identified 'TRUPPENVERSCHIEBUNG' as the keyword for the ADFGVX cipher, revealing a warning about a British cruiser arriving at Sevastopol followed by an Allied squadron. Astra cross-checked the decoded date against historical naval logs, confirming HMS Canterbury's arrival in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918, closely matching the message's timeline.
Court documents made public in an ongoing copyright lawsuit reveal internal OpenAI communications in which employees discussed the expense and legality of acquiring books to train early ChatGPT models, with some staff flagging the sourcing as questionable. The messages suggest teams weighed pirated material as a cheaper alternative to licensing content properly.
A writer testing AI-generated event posters found that ChatGPT defaults to a repetitive, instantly recognisable style seen across countless community event flyers online, echoing a viral Facebook post mocking near-identical AI-made village fayre posters. By explicitly instructing the tool to avoid that pastel, airbrushed look and try a different aesthetic, the writer got ChatGPT to produce a bolder, Bauhaus-inspired geometric design instead.
Meta's Muse, an AI agent app launched earlier this month, has climbed to the top of Apple's free iPhone app rankings in the US, pushing OpenAI's ChatGPT out of first place. The surge follows Meta's expansion of Muse to Mac desktops, though that version doesn't count toward App Store rankings since it's downloaded via the web.
A marketing strategist warns that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini frequently describe companies inaccurately, citing discontinued products, misattributed positioning, and wrong pricing or locations. He recommends founders run a 'mirror test' by asking multiple AI tools the same questions about their business to see how they're being represented online.
A three-person team at startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic's Claude AI model to chain two vulnerabilities together, gaining access to several OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts and internal systems through OpenAI's bug-bounty program. The entry point traced back to a flaw in Discourse, the third-party forum software OpenAI uses, triggered through a routine image upload. OpenAI paid Hacktron $6,500 and says it has since patched the vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity firm Hacktron AI disclosed that its researchers exploited a chained vulnerability—an outdated image-processing library on OpenAI's Discourse forum combined with an SSO misconfiguration—to hijack employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts and reach OpenAI's private code repository. To prove the breach, they submitted a harmless pull request to OpenAI's internal monorepo before reporting the flaws through OpenAI's bug bounty program. OpenAI patched the issue within 14 hours and paid the team a $6,500 bounty.
A three-person team from security firm Hacktron AI used a specialized Anthropic security tool to gain access to an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account, exposing internal software details and even suggesting code changes. OpenAI paid the researchers $6,500 through its bug bounty program after they disclosed the vulnerability responsibly.
Newly unsealed portions of a legal brief in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show internal admissions from both companies' executives. Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, reportedly called AI training data scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, described the chatbot as an 'existential threat' to publishers. The filing also cites data showing Copilot slashed click-through traffic to the Times by up to 93% compared to Bing search.