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OpenAI news: ChatGPT, new GPT models, AI agents, safety incidents and the business behind the company, in short stories with sources linked.
OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon flew to Sydney to face a parliamentary inquiry, pledged faster disclosure, and admitted the company should have told the government sooner. Anthropic made a similar pledge.
A Nieman Lab investigation found ChatGPT adding the signatures of more than 15 real New Yorker cartoonists to AI-generated cartoons. One went viral with a name its artist never signed.
The nonprofit behind Wikipedia says agents it believes OpenAI operated made unapproved edits, probed a note-taking tool and made millions of requests, which may have contributed to a partial outage.
To meet the EU AI Act, OpenAI is adding hidden watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in Europe, opening opt-in watermarking to API customers worldwide, and limiting its detector to approved researchers.
OpenAI will test a new visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT later this month in the US, alongside new tools that let advertisers measure whether the ads work.
The Wall Street Journal reports the researchers allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety group, as OpenAI deals with a string of incidents involving its AI agents.
