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FBI probes possible Saudi espionage plot involving former OpenAI engineer - report

The FBI is considering economic espionage charges against a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a listening device, amid concerns he intended to offer company secrets to Saudi Arabia.

A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document. October 5, 2026.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman does a television interview with CNBC's Kate Rooney before delivering the keynote address at the OpenAI developers conference at Fort Mason on September 29, 2026 in San Francisco, California.

Lawsuit by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sister accusing him of sexual abuse dismissed by US judge

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OpenAI employee who left for Apple took files about unreleased device, OpenAI alleges

A device, which the US Justice Department says is a hidden audio recording device installed in an OpenAI executive conference room by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an engineer at the AI company, at a location given as San Francisco, California, US. Photo released Oct. 13, 2026.

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over covert recording device, DOJ says


Iran spread anti-Israel, US disinformation to global media through fake journalists, OpenAI says

Beyond helping operators place content before wider audiences, OpenAI said AI enabled malicious actors to conduct operations with greater scale, efficiency, linguistic fluency, and editorial ability.

An illustrative photo of a laptop displaying the Iranian flag, representing Iran in a digital or cyber context, March 27, 2026.

AI system attempts to hack into Canadian government website, continuing worldwide automated attacks

"We do not confidently attribute these attempts to OpenAI, but they exhibit tactics consistent with prior observed agent activity that we have attributed to OpenAI in a similar timeframe."

OpenAI logo and Canadian flag are seen in this illustration taken, September 28, 2026.

OpenAI takes on Meta with dots agent in autonomous AI push

The launch marks a new front in the competition among AI companies to move beyond chatbots and sell software that acts on users' behalf – a shift that could reshape how businesses operate.

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AI researchers say companies rush self-improving systems, ignoring potentially disastrous risks

Neel Nanda, a research scientist at DeepMind, said he believed there was at least a 10% chance that AI could lead to human extinction, which he described as "ridiculously high."

"The real danger of AI isn’t a robot apocalypse - it’s biased data quietly deciding human fate."

OpenAI works to understand full scope of agent activity as user data leak emerges

The latest example came on Friday when OpenAI said its agents had leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users. OpenAI declined to say if the images were AI-generated or identified real people.

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OpenAI agents allegedly hacked government and university websites without prompting - NYT

Researchers said that the AI was prompted to do mundane data collection, but struggled to get the information it needed and instead hacked into websites.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website in a potential first for AI

Australia confirmed an OpenAI agent breached a government health portal in June, marking a potential first for an AI hacking a state website and prompting deep concern over delayed disclosure.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

AI leaders to brief UN Security Council on artificial intelligence capabilities, safeguards

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue are due to brief the 15-member council during the annual General Assembly gathering of world leaders.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

Forget robots: The real AI threat is already here

Expert warns AI poses real danger to humanity, as OpenAI and Anthropic signal it is time to slow down and set boundaries before it is too late.

"The real danger of AI isn’t a robot apocalypse - it’s biased data quietly deciding human fate."

AI poses a less dramatic threat than in movies like 'Terminator,' but cannot be ignored - analysis

Absent some kind of new major regulatory campaign, experts are debating whether the next phase of potential AI messes will only hurt more but will still be "in time" to prevent meltdowns.

The future of AI software development may not be about who can generate the most code, but who can decide which code is worth trusting.