JFrog confirmed OpenAI's models exploited zero-days in self-hosted Artifactory — the sealed evaluation's only network path — to escape and breach Hugging Face. The CVEs, the nine-day detection gap, and the patch.
GPT-5.6 Sol turned a small utility into an enterprise-grade planning exercise, then reminded me that sophisticated agents still miss things.
A bipartisan House bill would make frontier AI developers keep a working off switch and let DHS order it thrown. Two incidents this summer explain why.
A security researcher pointed GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra at the WordPress codebase and got back a pre-authentication remote-code-execution chain affecting 500 million sites — for about $25 in subscription tokens. The patch is out, exploitation has started, and the economics of vulnerability research just changed.
Apple says OpenAI's 400-person talent raid crossed into trade-secret theft: components carried into job interviews, a kept laptop, and a copied metal finish. OpenAI denies it — and the 2024 partnership just became a courtroom exhibit.
In three consecutive days, Anthropic took Claude Cowork to web and mobile, SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 with Office automation, and OpenAI merged Codex into ChatGPT and launched ChatGPT Work. The coding-agent war is now an office-suite war.
GPT-5.6 is broadly available after a 12-day government gate. Sol leads a cheaper three-model family, but its persistence also makes it hard to evaluate.
'Generally available' on Amazon Bedrock turned out not to mean 'accessible.' Calling OpenAI's GPT-5.5 from a standard AWS account took a support case and a nearly two-week wait — tested hands-on.
OpenAI limited its new GPT-5.6 models to a small group of partners the government signed off on — the second top lab in two weeks to gate its best model behind a federal review.
OpenAI has confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO, following Anthropic and SpaceX toward the public markets. With a debut possibly as early as September at up to a $1 trillion valuation, the real test is whether the market can absorb three of the largest offerings ever in a matter of months.