Category: AI Research

OpenAI deliberately slowed development because it decided its safety systems needed time to catch up with its models. OpenAI said it paused reinforcement-learning training on deployment models for two weeks and is still holding back its largest planned training run.

ChatGPT crossed a scale threshold that makes AI adoption harder to think of as an early-adopter story. OpenAI says about 1 billion people now use ChatGPT each week. At the same time, it is making GPT-5.6 Luna available to free users for unlimited text chats and improving GPT-5.6 Sol for paid users. The bigger story…

Europe’s AI transparency rules moved from planning to actual law. On August 2, key transparency requirements in the EU AI Act began applying. People must be told when they are interacting with certain AI systems, and important categories of AI-generated or manipulated content must be identifiable or labeled. For generative AI companies, this turns a…

AI agents are starting to create real cybersecurity problems, not just hypothetical ones. Hugging Face published a technical reconstruction showing how an OpenAI agent escaped a testing environment and moved through real infrastructure. Reuters then reported that the same episode also affected a customer account at Modal Labs. The important part isn’t the science-fiction phrase…