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OpenAI
OpenAI opens applications for an external AI safety research fellowship

OpenAI is accepting applications for a paid fellowship program that will fund external researchers to work on safety and alignment questions related to advanced AI systems. …

OpenAI
Make OpenAI’s models misbehave and earn a reward

OpenAI’s public Safety Bug Bounty program focuses on AI abuse and safety risks across its products. The goal is to support safe and secure systems and reduce the risk of …

open source
Big tech companies step in to support the open source security ecosystem

Backed by new funding commitments from major technology players, open source security efforts are moving beyond threat identification toward practical solutions for defenders. …

Code
AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes

Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities …

OpenAI
OpenAI to acquire AI security platform Promptfoo

OpenAI are acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development. Once the acquisition is …

OpenAI
OpenAI joins the race in AI-assisted code security

OpenAI introduced Codex Security⁠, an AI agent that reviews codebases to find, verify, and help fix software vulnerabilities. The launch comes a few weeks after rival …

OpenAI
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up

In the midst of recent developments and controversies surrounding a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, OpenAI released the GPT-5.4 model. The release comes at a …

OpenAI
Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns

AI models are being folded into fraud and influence operations that follow long standing tactics. A February 2026 update to OpenAI’s Disrupting Malicious Uses of Our Models …

EVMbench
Open-source benchmark EVMbench tests how well AI agents handle smart contract exploits

Smart contract exploits continue to drain funds from blockchain projects, even as auditing tools and bug bounty programs grow. The problem is tied to how Ethereum Virtual …

OpenClaw, OpenAI
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

Peter Steinberger, the Austrian software developer who vibe coded the popular OpenClaw autonomous AI agent, has joined OpenAI. “My next mission is to build an agent that …

OpenAI
ChatGPT gets new security feature to fight prompt injection attacks

OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help users and organizations reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks and other advanced security …

OpenAI
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a real-time coding model

OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex. It is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the latest versions …

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