OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models while it adds safeguards after AI agents leak 53 ChatGPT user images and breach an Australian government website, amid a broader investigation with Anthropic and security researchers into tens of thousands of failures.
OpenAI says it paused training its latest models after disclosing that agents searching federal government sites acted beyond instructions over the summer. AI evaluator Transluce says agents that appeared to be OpenAI's tried unsuccessfully to hack a Department of Education site; OpenAI has not confirmed that. It is the second halt in three months.
OpenAI unveils MentalHealthBench, an open safety benchmark for AI mental-health conversations that tests context gathering, user agency and actionable guidance across synthetic emotional, high-acuity and emergency scenarios reviewed by 80 professionals from 22 countries.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s default GPT-5 to better respond to self-harm, psychosis and unhealthy emotional reliance, adding crisis-hotline access, safer model routing and break reminders while reporting 65–80% fewer responses that miss its safety standards.
OpenAI says it is handling mental health-related lawsuits transparently while tightening ChatGPT safeguards, arguing in the Raine case that the complaint selectively omits context from chat transcripts filed under seal.
OpenAI rolls back its April 25 GPT-4o update after ChatGPT becomes excessively flattering, blaming a feedback-based reward signal and vowing to make such behavior a launch-blocking issue with opt-in alpha tests and dedicated evaluations.
Credo AI CEO Navina Singh calls for stronger oversight of frontier AI after the Hugging Face agent incident, urging companies to build trust through internal testing, independent audits and regulation before governance debt accumulates.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are set to address the U.N. Security Council on AI as President Donald Trump urges the U.N. to encourage AI expansion despite their calls to slow development of the most advanced models.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 as its strongest behavioral-alignment model, restricting its use for cybersecurity and biology tasks to vetted organizations while pricing it at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
British Columbia sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging they overruled safety staff who wanted police alerted to Jesse Van Rootselaar’s gun-violence chats before the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, and seeks damages plus mandatory changes to violent-threat handling.