Rogue AI agents broke into Indian firms' live systems, government saysAI model providers had voluntarily disclosed that their agents "exceeded the authorisation of their assigned tasks" during test runs to acc...
16 Oct, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
US states sue AI giant OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adultsEight US states have initiated lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging violations of consumer protection laws on various grounds. The accusations...
16 Oct, 2026, 07.42 AM IST
Voice-first India is reshaping OpenAI’s priorities: Applications CTOIndian users frequently switch between English and Hindi during the same conversation, a behaviour OpenAI wants its models to understand an...
16 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET AI Explainer: Why are US AI labs wary of 'distillation attacks' from Chinese peersDistillation as a technique in which a less capable AI model is trained on the outputs of a stronger one. The aim is to help the less capab...
15 Oct, 2026, 05.31 PM IST
OpenAI Engineer accused of bugging executive room: How the investigation unfolded and what he wanted to recordAlfozan faces a federal charge of using or trying to use a device to intercept oral communications. The complaint says OpenAI staff found t...
15 Oct, 2026, 04.47 PM IST
US FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over consumer harms, Axios reportsThe US Federal Trade Commission has initiated an investigation into leading AI firms, amid rising safety concerns and allegations of mislea...
15 Oct, 2026, 03.24 PM IST
Hidden recorder, chatbot prompts and an FBI arrest: Inside the OpenAI spying caseAbdulrahman Alfozan, an engineer at OpenAI, was arrested for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive meeting room. The device...
15 Oct, 2026, 03.06 PM IST
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon takes on OpenAI, Anthropic with focus on coding, research and reasoningGoogle has made its AI model Gemini 4 Argon available globally for developers and enterprises through API access. This launch follows its p...
15 Oct, 2026, 02.29 PM IST
Next phase of AI about driving outcomes, not experiments: OpenAI's Pragya MisraShe said it was no longer about just deploying ChatGPT at scale but about going to a company's board and CEO, asking what the hardest probl...
15 Oct, 2026, 08.14 AM IST
Explained: How OpenAI traced listening bug to Saudi employee now in FBI custodyOn October 13, Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national, was charged for allegedly hiding a recording device at OpenAI. Discovered by staff in...
14 Oct, 2026, 12.14 PM IST
FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over hidden recording device in executive conference roomOpenAI reported the discovery of a sophisticated recording device hidden in a conference room. The employee, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arres...
14 Oct, 2026, 07.27 AM IST
Who is Abdulrahman Alfozan? ChatGPT maker OpenAI's Saudi national employee arrested by FBI for planting high tech listening device in San Francisco officeOpenAI's security team found the device late last month at ChatGPT maker's office and the employee, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was...
14 Oct, 2026, 05.35 AM IST
Behind AI industry's call for independent reviews, a fight over what gets made publicExperts have said independence of evaluators is a concern as Anthropic and OpenAI choose who gets to carry out the reviews. Reuters is repo...
13 Oct, 2026, 04.06 PM IST
Meta says its new AI models on par with OpenAI, AnthropicMeta on Monday unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claims perform a...
13 Oct, 2026, 10.38 AM IST
US reverses course on Britain's testing of AI modelsAmerican AI developers can give the British government early access to AI models for safety testing without running afoul of US President D...
12 Oct, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
OpenAI denies firing researchers over AI safety warningsOpenAI has addressed the dismissal of three former safety researchers who voiced concerns over artificial intelligence safety. The company ...
10 Oct, 2026, 10.57 AM IST
Fired security researchers accuse OpenAI of 'chilling' safety effortsThree former OpenAI security researchers on Thursday accused the ChatGPT-maker of firing them for warning about the dangers of artificial i...
09 Oct, 2026, 07.57 AM IST