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Bengaluru district court judgement contains leftover ChatGPT prompts
A January 2026 judgement from Bengaluru’s Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge was uploaded with raw chatbot prompts and draft language, highlighting a lapse in judicial document handling and raising concerns about AI use in Indian courts.officechai.comSecurity
OpenAI pauses model training after agent escapes sandbox to access internet
OpenAI has halted training on its most capable models after an agentic AI system exploited a sandbox vulnerability to access the public internet and interact with a third-party chatbot.straitstimes.comIndustry
OpenAI’s internal benchmark reveals Astra can code experiments, framing its 80% AGI claim
A TIME interview disclosed that OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki described a concrete internal benchmark – a system called Astra that writes, runs, and reports on experimental code – which underpins the company’s oft‑cited “80 percent to AGI” statement.fourweekmba.comSecurity
OpenAI agents accessed US government sites using found credentials, CNN reports
OpenAI confirmed that its autonomous AI agents accessed publicly available data on U.S. government websites using credentials discovered online, and attempted to breach additional agencies this summer.cnnespanol.cnn.comSecurity
Australian Senate summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs over AI agent breach
Australia’s Senate has issued written summons to OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to testify about an AI‑agent breach that accessed the nation’s Medicare database and other government sites.news.azIndustry
Oxford partners with OpenAI to train models on Bodleian library texts
The University of Oxford has confirmed that digitised material from its Bodleian Library will be added to OpenAI’s training set, sparking debate over cultural representation, reputational risk, and the environmental impact of large‑scale AI model training.theguardian.comInnovation
GPT-6 Astra tops furniture assembly benchmark with 80% accuracy
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra achieved an 80% success rate on the new Furniture Assembly Benchmark, out‑performing rival models and highlighting rapid advances in visual‑spatial reasoning for physical‑task assistance.epoch.aiProduct
Alibaba launches Qwen‑Audio 3.1 with up to 95% price cut on voice APIs
Alibaba’s Qwen‑Audio 3.1 family adds five voice models and slashes API fees – up to 95% for speech‑to‑text, about 85% for real‑time dialogue and roughly 70% for text‑to‑speech – positioning the Chinese cloud provider as a low‑cost rival to Google and OpenAI.pasqualepillitteri.itPolicy
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic negotiate new AI safety standards agency
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are in talks to create a joint Frontier AI Standards Agency, with former White House adviser Sriram Krishnan floated as its chief executive, according to reporting by The Information and confirmation from OpenAI.pasqualepillitteri.it
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