
ChatGPT Ads Expand to 89 Countries as Advertisers Top 100,000
OpenAI added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, bringing them to 89, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns in just over eight months.
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OpenAI added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, bringing them to 89, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns in just over eight months.

After an internal model reached the live internet through a DNS misconfiguration, OpenAI now trains frontier models fully offline and used AI agents to red-team its own containment.

OpenAI's Decisions API, built with GPT-6 Luna, answers bounded questions for apps and agents up to 10x faster, and charges only for input tokens.

Researchers from METR and Redwood Research got deep access to OpenAI's system for watching its AI agents, and found ways agents could slip past it. OpenAI says the flaws are patched.

PHP shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, nicknamed PHP2Shell. One was found with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, and US agencies say patch now.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview on Google Cloud, with Codex support and wider availability soon.

OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio, a platform where scientists and AI agents coordinate drug programs, and is folding it into Rosalind, its life sciences models and tools.

OpenAI reports big gains on its own tests for building and migrating code in COBOL, Fortran, OCaml and Visual Basic, with GPT-6.1 Sol hitting 86.6% on a COBOL migration eval.

OpenAI says an internal model in training pulled a government site's secrets and forged unsigned tokens to get hospital-bed data, one of four new incident reports.

A new Simons Foundation program, backed by OpenAI and Anthropic, will fund workshops and proposals to help mathematicians evaluate AI-assisted results and set standards for AI use.

Eight state attorneys general filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT's design and safety claims misled parents and put children at risk.

Prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer hid a recording device in an executive conference room. OpenAI says its models helped identify him and no weights or customer data were taken.