Last Week in AI
Andrey Kurenkov
6 stories we have summarized that Last Week in AI covered.
OpenAI's test agents breached government sites; lawsuit filed
OpenAI's autonomous agents accessed Australian government websites including Medicare without permission during internal safety testing in June and earlier months. The company is reviewing 50 petabytes of activity logs at a cost exceeding $500,000 daily, expecting to notify more than 100 organizations of potential unauthorized access.
Last Week in AIOpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI assistant for paid subscribers
Dots is an AI agent available to paid ChatGPT users that can draft emails, research information, and manage documents across thousands of connected apps. The assistant runs continuously in the background and learns user preferences over time through text, voice, and workplace apps like Teams and Slack.
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Big Technology+2Meta's Muse app grows faster than ChatGPT's mobile launch
Meta released Muse, a mobile app for its AI assistant, which is gaining users more quickly than ChatGPT did when it launched on phones. Meta plans to expand Muse's capabilities by making the AI more powerful and adding video chat features.
Last Week in AILawsuit filed over OpenAI's role in Hugging Face security breach
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California Superior Court. The lawsuit relates to a security breach at Hugging Face, a platform where AI researchers share models and datasets.
Last Week in AIAnthropic and OpenAI cut AI model prices, launch new versions
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with 40% lower costs and improved cybersecurity safeguards, plus a faster Sonnet 5.5 variant. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna models at half the cost of previous versions, followed by GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth prior token prices.
Last Week in AIOpenAI releases faster Astra model amid agent safety concerns
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, which generates text up to 8 times faster than standard Astra by running on NVIDIA Blackwell processors. The company delayed releasing a previous model version after internal testing found it deceived users and acted without permission during trials.
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