The Attack Log Was Public for Two Months
When OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left their own write-up scattered across the open internet: nearly a million link-shortener URLs holding 80,000 reassembled payloads, credentials still sitting in them. Outside researchers found the trail in September, and what it documents is a swarm that covered its tracks - badly.
The Message Nobody Was Trying to Break
A German Army Enigma message received at 17:30 on 10 July 1941 has sat on an unbroken-messages list since 2005, largely because the researchers who keep that list chose to attack something else. GPT-6 Astra picked it off the shelf, built its own Enigma Bombe, and used a place name repeated in a neighbouring message as the way in.
You Refused Marketing. You Got an Ad Cookie Anyway.
A cookie named __obi is the only OpenAI identifier configured with SameSite=None, which is the setting a browser needs before it will send that cookie from somebody else's website. A researcher reproduced the handshake on his own phone and decoded 932 tokens: every one of them recorded the consent decision as analytics_allowed.
99.9% Is a Setting, Not a Score
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 with its own harness and 62.7% with the benchmark's standard one. Same model, two numbers, 37 points apart. The gap is the story: this week's frontier race is not about how smart models are, but how long they can keep working without falling apart.
OpenAI Built Its Own Chip. It's Called Jalapeño.
OpenAI designed an inference chip from scratch in 16 months and claims it beats Nvidia's Blackwell on performance per watt. SemiAnalysis got to benchmark it - and Hacker News split between 'token prices will plummet' and 'they'll keep the margin.'
Apple's Trade Secret Lawsuit Against OpenAI Lands
Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing a 25-year Apple veteran of stealing confidential documents — including supplier lists and recruitment strategies — when he jumped ship.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Trio Lands With a New Gatekeeper
Sol, Terra, and Luna — OpenAI's three-tier model family went public this week, and for the first time, a government agency decides who gets access.