Bloomberg Reportedly during today’s hearing, OpenAI voluntarily agreed not to use Apple’s alleged trade secrets while the legal battle between the two companies ended. Here are the details. Apple scored its second consecutive win with OpenAI Earlier today, OpenAI filed a new lawsuit in which Apple accused the company of stealing trade secrets, alleging that … Read more
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to secretly record confidential conversations. The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, who had worked at OpenAI since July 2025, was arrested on October 9 … Read more
An engineer at OpenAI has been accused of secretly installing a recording device in a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an attempt to record sensitive conversations about the company’s technology. The employee was identified as a 35-year-old Saudi citizen Abdulrahman AlfozanAccording to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco, … Read more
After nearly every major technology event, there’s a recurring trend I’ve noticed. The company announces dozens of new products and features, but somehow everyone focuses on one thing. Before you know it, that one announcement will be dominating the headlines, social media, and basically every conversation surrounding the event. True, we in the tech press … Read more
OpenAI said Friday that it fired three security researchers for “breach of trust,” defending the firings after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests above security as the reason for the firing. The ChatGPT maker said in a post The statement came after three researchers, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, … Read more
OpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to texts generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. The watermark is not visible when you read or copy the text. Instead, OpenAI says it is new textGrain The technology slightly alters the model’s word selection to create a statistical pattern that can later be recognized. … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a “remarkably powerful, always-on” artificial intelligence agent during an appearance Tuesday, where he avoided any mention of security concerns about the company’s most advanced models. At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman made a number of product announcements and updates, including the company’s new agents called Dots. The agents, designed … Read more
OpenAI is testing a new always-on assistant called “O”and references to the unannounced feature briefly appeared online. OpenAI hasn’t confirmed or denied that it’s working on a new always-on assistant, but some users have confirmed it spotted On References to the new “o” assistantSource: Jake on X This feature was listed alongside increased Work and … Read more
A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government’s health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June. The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly been summoned to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry into AI, days after news broke that a rogue OpenAI bot hacked the country’s health data. According to Sunday Business … Read more
OpenAI and other defendants in Apple’s trade secret fraud lawsuit filed new documents, asking the court to strike two expert testimony and ignore other evidence Apple recently submitted. Here are the details. A little context As 9to5Mac readers are already aware, Apple recently filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, Jony Ive’s io product, and … Read more