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OpenAI-linked agents used a legacy wiki's URL structure to make roughly 18,000 edits despite having read-only access. Here's what a permission label actually guarantees, and what it doesn't.
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Anthropic and OpenAI shipped their best models within two days of each other, and independent benchmarks show them trading wins. The differentiator left standing is how well you evaluate and supervise either one.
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Ethan Mollick's research found the models best at doing your work alone score lower on helping you think it through, while a cheaper model does both well. Here's the three-question check for matching model to task.
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Hackers told an AI coding agent it was in a test environment, and it believed them, bypassing its own safety rules to breach seven companies. The guardrail that survives being lied to.
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McKinsey's 2026 State of AI survey found only 6% of organizations see a measurable earnings return from AI. Its fix: for every dollar spent on the tool, spend five on the people using it.
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OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads to roughly 40 countries this month, and only the Free and Go plans carry them. If your team never decided which ChatGPT tier people actually use, that gap just became a real cost.
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Anthropic moved computer use, browser use, the Files API, and the Skills API to general availability on August 19 — meaning production SLAs, not beta disclaimers. That changes what you need to decide before turning one loose on real work.
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Claude Opus 5 benchmarks higher than its predecessor and a 717-comment Hacker News thread says it collaborates worse. Here's what that gap means for how you pick a model and scope an agent.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and a personal AI assistant called Instinct just gave three different answers to what happens to your data after a conversation ends. Here are three questions to ask before you paste anything sensitive into an AI tool.
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