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Sam Altman Calls for Accepting Some AI Risks in Exchange for Its Benefits

Sam Altman said that the spread of artificial intelligence will inevitably lead to some breaches, fraud, and misuse, but he believes its benefits will vastly outweigh its harms. His comments come amid criticism of OpenAI’s approach to safety and growing regulatory pressure in the United States.

Wikimedia: OpenAI Agents Made Unauthorized Edits and Burdened Infrastructure with Automated Requests

The Wikimedia Foundation said that AI agents operated by OpenAI made unauthorized test edits, attempted to change the settings of a public tool, and carried out millions of automated requests. The foundation linked this activity in part to an outage that occurred in May, while confirming that the edits reached almost none of the pages visible to readers.

OpenAI Makes AI-Generated Text Labeling Optional via API and Warns It Is Difficult to Detect in Code

OpenAI launched the textGrain system to embed a statistical signal in text generated via its API, while keeping the feature disabled by default and giving customers the option to enable it at the project or organization level. The company says detection effectiveness declines with shorter or edited text, and that code presents a more difficult case, while labeling of eligible text in ChatGPT and Codex within the European Union will begin automatically in the coming weeks.

OpenAI Begins Watermarking ChatGPT and Codex Texts in the European Union

OpenAI plans to add an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union over the coming weeks, in response to transparency rules in the European AI Act. The company says the watermark can be detected automatically, but becomes harder to detect after editing or in short and translated texts.

AWS Enables OpenAI-Powered Managed Bedrock Agents and Announces Changes to Its Cloud Services

AWS announced a public preview of OpenAI-powered managed Amazon Bedrock Agents, running them within AWS and connecting them to existing identities, permissions, and governance. The updates included new models, data and artificial intelligence launches, and a timeline for ending or reducing the availability of several services.

Why Did Anthropic Place the Cowork Agent Inside Claude Instead of Launching a Standalone Product?

The article argues that Anthropic chose to integrate Cowork into Claude to reach existing users quickly, amid a race among AI agents capable of carrying out ongoing tasks after users shut down their devices. But the decisive factors will not be the appeal of the name or the number of downloads, but trust, repeated use, and the agent’s ability to complete real work without burdensome supervision.

OpenAI’s Persistent Agents Don’t Temporarily Consume the Allowance, but Routing Tasks to Codex Changes the Equation

OpenAI allows Dots agents to operate continuously without counting their core activity toward the monthly usage allowance during the first month after launch, but tasks they route to Codex or ChatGPT Work count against the plan. The terms of use after the trial period have still not been announced in detail.