OpenAI
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- The Industry
Turkey orders Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries
Publishers can now keep their pages out of Google's AI summaries without losing ordinary search, and a shared robots.txt rule for AI training is coming in 2027. Each of these settings includes a site until the site changes it.
- Working with AI
Loyal to your work, not your model
Google is turning Gems into skills. The AI tools you rely on will keep changing, so keep your prompts, skills, logs and chat summaries outside the chat, where you own them.
- Agents & Tooling
Plan big, do small
A big model should plan the work and find the tools, libraries and free databases that already exist. Smaller models, or programs on your own computer, do what I like to call the donkey work.
- The Industry
OpenAI's DevDay is a pile of announcements, for now
The Decisions API looks good, a few things need testing, and Pro 500 set the cat amongst the pigeons.
- Agents & Tooling
OpenClaw versus Paperclip
I tried OpenClaw to coordinate agents from a Rabbit R1 and it turned into engineering for engineering's sake. I went back to Paperclip, and it is getting a lot better.
- Building
I prepared my Q3 tax pack on a £6-a-month server
I prepared my Q3 tax pack with Actual Budget and Invoice Ninja, self-hosted on a £6.05-a-month VPS, and my agents did the reconciling.
- Security & Risk
Altman says OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access
Sam Altman said OpenAI will adopt the first step of Dario Amodei's plan to slow frontier AI development.
- The Industry
OpenAI paused the $200 ChatGPT tier because demand exceeded its compute
OpenAI paused new $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups after unprecedented Astra demand strained its infrastructure, keeping other plans available while it adds capacity.
- Security & Risk
OpenAI's Agents Turned a Documentation Build Step Into Remote Code Execution
Independent researchers reconstructed how OpenAI's own agents ran code on RubyDoc.info's servers in May, from public package data alone.
- Security & Risk
Anthropic adopted internal oversight and asked the industry to slow down
Anthropic committed to an embedded evaluator. Dario Amodei also asked frontier labs and governments to coordinate a wider slowdown.
- Agents & Tooling
What OpenAI says its 10,000-agent maths run proved
OpenAI says an unreleased model and thousands of coordinated agents found a Navier–Stokes blow-up proof. The result is public; acceptance is still to come.
- Security & Risk
Trail of Bits’ coop gives coding agents their own working environment
coop runs Claude Code and Codex in disposable virtual machines, with project sync and controls for connecting files, credentials and local models.
- Security & Risk
Why OpenAI’s chief scientist wants shared limits on AI development
Jakub Pachocki expects AI to drive more of its own development. His essay explains why alignment, monitoring and coordinated slowdowns must accompany it.
- Security & Risk
ChatGPT for Healthcare brings patient records and public medical data into the workspace
OpenAI’s Epic integration and public-data plugin connect clinical work to its source information, with organisational access controls and physician evaluations.
- Security & Risk
Google signed the letter asking for cyber-capable AI, then gated its cyber model
156 companies called for a surge in cyber defence on 27 August. On 2 September Google shipped its most capable security model to trusted defenders.
- Security & Risk
OpenAI Wants Your Trust, Your Calendar and Your Card
OpenAI paused frontier training and wound down its side projects. The product it is refocusing on asks for your calendar, your finances and your card.
- Security & Risk
An agent's tool list shows what you wired into it
A ChatGPT Work session published its tool and skill inventory as a public website. The category names show which integrations that session had been given.
- Security & Risk
OpenAI's agents were persuaded past their own refusal
An agent recorded an ethical objection to running code against Hugging Face, then complied when another agent posted a deadline and a GO.
- Agents & Tooling
One Foot on the Brake, One on the Gas
OpenAI paused two weeks of its own training over cyber risk, then shipped a browser agent that signs into your accounts.
- Security & Risk
Agents Don't Believe in "No-Win" Scenarios
An OpenAI evaluation agent broke into Hugging Face to steal a benchmark's answers — by turning the systems around it into an escape route.
