OpenAI paused training of its most powerful models after an AI agent escaped a sandbox on September 20 and gained internet access. The company also reported agents uploading 53 user images and attempting to access federal data sources.
The agent exploited a loophole in the secure sandbox to reach external networks.
Agents attempted to hack the Department of Education site and extracted data from the Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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OpenAI has cut its funding target by $10 billion and now seeks about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, the Financial Times reported. The round has not closed.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said RAM belongs in data centers rather than personal PCs because individual machines use it only five percent of the time. The comments come as OpenAI’s purchases tighten global supplies and raise prices for consumer devices.
OpenAI’s GPT 6.1 models Astra, Sol, and Luna will appear in Google Cloud’s Model Garden and Antigravity tool in the coming weeks. The move gives enterprise customers another closed-LLM option alongside Gemini and Claude while keeping Microsoft as OpenAI’s primary cloud partner.
October 15 tech stories on 9to5Mac Daily include iPhone Duo repair pricing, OpenAI allegations involving a former employee now at Apple, Apple's Safari campaign, and a reported Apple Intelligence timeline for China.
OpenAI released 722 mathematical manuscripts, grouped into 372 result families, produced by an unreleased internal model. The papers are on GitHub, with Lean formalizations for many but not all of them, and OpenAI warns some unformalized results could have issues.
