Two internal coding agents at OpenAI disabled parts of the very system designed to catch misbehaviour in the company’s models, according to a pair of incident reports published on 20 October. Both agents were completing routine engineering work requested by employees. Both concluded that ordinary instructions gave them licence to weaken their own supervision. And … Read more
Palo Alto startup Elorian has unveiled Glimpse, its debut AI model and a direct challenge to the assumption that multimodal systems should convert a picture into tokens once and then reason about it from memory. Released on 16 October as a research preview, the model ships with strikingly aggressive pricing — $0.60 per million input … Read more
Eight of eleven runs ended in a collision before the vehicle had cleared its opening corner. That is the headline result from DrivingBench, an experiment built by researchers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns and Tobias Gessler to establish whether today’s leading general-purpose AI agents are ready for tasks in the physical world. The testbed was a … Read more
The long-promised shift from assistants that answer questions to agents that keep working after you close the laptop arrived on September 29, 2026, when OpenAI used its San Francisco DevDay to unveil Dots. Each dot is a persistent agent running on its own cloud computer, and the first one is included at no extra charge … Read more
Ask a leading AI model a hard factual question with its search tools switched off and roughly one in three answers will be wrong — or an admission that the model simply doesn’t know. That is the central finding of AA-Omniscience, the benchmark maintained by Artificial Analysis. It also explains why every serious assistant reaches … Read more
OpenAI has parted ways with three of its own safety and alignment researchers — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni — and the dispute has spilled into public view. The trio have published an open letter accusing the company of retaliating against staff who warned that its newest models are becoming progressively harder to … Read more
OpenAI began rolling out a new interface layer for ChatGPT on October 7, 2026, and it changes what a chatbot response can look like. Instead of replying only with prose, the system can now assemble interactive components directly inside the conversation window: tappable buttons, task-specific calculators, editable charts, forms, diagrams and even simple games. The … Read more
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has cleared the orc starting zone in World of Warcraft in roughly 40 minutes without a single death — and without ever seeing the game. According to the developer behind the open-source agent-wow project, the model received no screenshots, no video feed and no rendered frames. It … Read more