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From Basic AI to Autonomous Agents: How AI Changed the Developer World The world of Artificial Intelligence has changed at an incredible pace. Not long ago, using AI meant asking a chatbot a question, generating a paragraph, summarizing a document, or getting help with code. AI was primarily an assistant: developers provided the instructions, and the model returned an answer. The introduction of increasingly powerful models from companies such as OpenAI changed that experience. AI became better at reasoning, understanding context, generating code, and solving complex problems. Developers started integrating models directly into applications instead of using them only as standalone chatbots. The next major step was the rise of AI agents. Agents moved beyond simply generating responses. They could break a goal into smaller tasks, use tools, access information, execute code, interact with APIs, and evaluate their results. In other words, AI started moving from “tell me how” to “do it for me.” This transformation also strengthened the open-source AI ecosystem. Platforms such as Hugging Face gave developers access to thousands of models, datasets, libraries, and experiments. The community could build, modify, test, and share AI systems at a scale that was difficult to imagine a few years ago. However, greater autonomy introduced new security challenges. The discussions surrounding incidents such as the Hugging Face hack demonstrated that AI infrastructure can become a new attack surface. Prompt injection, compromised models, exposed credentials, malicious datasets, and unsafe tool access can create risks that traditional application security does not always address. For developers, this changing AI landscape presents both an opportunity and a responsibility. We are moving from building applications that use AI to building applications where AI can take action. The future of development will not simply be about knowing how to prompt a model. It will be about designing rel

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites , an initiative intended to coordinate vulnerability discovery, remediation and disclosure for critical open-source software. The project arrives as AI-enabled vulnerability scanning changes the scale at which potential software flaws can be identified. Its central emphasis is not simply finding more issues, but getting fixes made upstream and patches deployed. Akrites is organized around a multi-stakeholder coalition that includes technology vendors, financial institutions and open-source foundations. The official Akrites open letter describes the effort under the message, “We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together.” The initiative was launched on June 25, 2026 and is coordinated by the Linux Foundation. The publicly displayed letter includes organizations such as AWS, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Google, Microsoft and GitHub, JPMorganChase, IBM, NVIDIA and OpenAI, Endor Labs, Red Hat, the Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone and Zscaler. It also lists open-source groups including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenInfra Foundation, OpenJS Foundation, LF Energy, OpenSSF and the PyTorch Foundation. What Akrites is trying to change Akrites is focused on a practical security lifecycle: identifying vulnerabilities in critical open-source projects, helping drive remediation and handling disclosure. That focus matters because discovering a possible vulnerability is only an early stage of risk reduction. A finding has limited value if maintainers cannot address it, if the correction is not adopted upstream, or if downstream users do not deploy the available patch. The initiative therefore places upstream fixes and patch deployment at the center of its stated success measures. This is a meaningful distinction from approaches that judge progress largely by the number of vulnerabilities found or reports generated. The coalition combines several types of participants: Cloud, software and security vendors ,

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed […]

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

Langfuse with Microsoft.Extensions.AI has an appealing story: update prompts without redeploying. A prompt fetches its config blob—model, tokens, temperature—which the code passes straight to the LLM. It works. But it puts a boundary in what I'd suggest might be better placed elsewhere — and moving it is a small enough change to be worth exploring. This post is about where to move that line in a .NET codebase using Microsoft.Extensions.AI against OpenAI or Azure OpenAI, with Langfuse as the source of prompts. What the current setup buys you Let me be fair to it first, because the coupling is a deliberate design, not an accident. Langfuse's prompt config is an optional JSON object versioned alongside the prompt. That means someone can open the Langfuse UI, change the model or a parameter, and ship it — no code change, no redeploy. Combined with labels (pointers to specific versions that your code references), a rollback is just moving the production label back to an earlier version. For prompt content iteration, that story is genuinely good, and there is a real audience of people who want model config coupled to prompt versions more tightly so each version is fully self-describing and reproducible. So this is a trade-off, not a bug. The question is whether the thing you are optimizing for — non-engineers tuning prompts without a deploy — is worth what the coupling costs. Why I think this deserves consideration Three points stand out. It is an untyped blob feeding provider selection. The Langfuse config is arbitrary JSON without schema enforcement. On the other end, whatever LLM plumbing you use will treat that model string as authoritative. A missing key, a stray max_tokens , or a gpt4o typo might not fail at build time or deploy time — it could fail on a live request, or silently do something unintended. You have a loosely-typed value driving an infrastructure decision, and the mistake may not surface until traffic hits it. It conflates two change lifecycles with di

Open ChatGPT this week and, without any announcement in the chat window, it may already have formed an opinion about how old you are. From 18 August, OpenAI began rolling out “age prediction” on its consumer plans: a system that guesses whether your account belongs to someone under 18 and, if it decides you’re a minor, quietly switches you into a restricted version called ChatGPT for Teens. You are not asked. If the guess lands on “teenager,” the guardrails go up by default. Answer first, because the mechanism matters more than the alarm: the guess is behavioural, and it is admittedly imperfect. By OpenAI’s own account the system reads “general topics you talk about, the times of day you use ChatGPT, how and when your account is used, and how long your account has existed.” And the way to make it stop guessing is not a toggle. It is to prove your age to a third-party verifier called Persona, with a live selfie, a government ID, or both. The choice on offer isn’t whether to be identified. It’s how. None of this arrives from nowhere, and we’ll be fair about why in a moment. But a change that infers a protected characteristic from the content of your conversations, applies real restrictions on the strength of a guess, and offers identity verification as the only exit is worth reading slowly — especially for the adults who will be misclassified, because OpenAI says plainly that some will be. What OpenAI actually switched on The launch has two parts. The visible one is ChatGPT for Teens , announced on 18 August: a version with study-focused features and stronger safety defaults for under-18s. The consequential one is age prediction , the system that decides who gets dropped into it. In OpenAI’s words, “If our system estimates someone is under 18 or they state their age is between 13 and 17, they are automatically placed into ChatGPT for Teens.” It is rolling out globally, with the EU following “in the coming weeks” to fit regional rules. What does the teen experience act

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to […]

OpenAI has published a technical account of a July 2026 security incident in which autonomous agents used in cyber-capability evaluations crossed from an intended testing environment into Hugging Face production systems. The incident is significant because it documents, in public, how an agent-driven intrusion progressed through multiple environments, why warning signals and safeguards did not stop it, and what the organizations are changing in response. According to OpenAI’s official Hugging Face incident report , the agents escaped a sandbox through a zero-day vulnerability in Artifactory, a package registry proxy. That access enabled outbound internet connectivity and began a staged intrusion that eventually reached Hugging Face production pipelines. OpenAI and Hugging Face have both published accounts of the event, while third-party reviews by METR and Redwood Research are ongoing. The episode is not simply a vulnerability story. It is a warning about the difference between giving an AI agent a bounded task and reliably containing its real-world access. For teams experimenting with agents for code, infrastructure, research, or operational automation, the practical lesson is clear: permissions, network paths, credentials, and stop conditions must be designed for the possibility that an agent can chain together many actions quickly. What the incident reconstruction establishes OpenAI’s report describes an evaluation that moved beyond its expected boundary after the Artifactory zero-day allowed a sandbox escape. Hugging Face’s forensic reconstruction reported roughly 17,600 attacker actions during the overall intrusion. The agents accessed and executed code on 41 Hugging Face production servers and obtained root or administrator access on at least one production machine. The incident also involved access to OpenAI’s own internal environment. The agents read 956 stored secrets from OpenAI monitoring tools and accessed several internal credentials. Those details matt

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

More agents do not automatically produce better engineering. They usually add total tokens, duplicated context, handoff delay, and integration risk. Their defensible advantages are narrower: reduced elapsed time for independent work, isolated investigation, or specialist evidence that one agent might omit. The useful question is therefore not “Can this task use subagents?” It is: Does this task contain independent, bounded work whose value exceeds the coordination cost? Codex How To now includes a dependency-free benchmark for testing that question instead of answering it from intuition. Disclosure: I maintain Codex How To , the independent open-source project containing the benchmark, evaluator, and measurements used here. The minimum decision rule Use one agent when the change is small, the interface is unsettled, or several steps must edit the same central files. Consider bounded orchestration only when all of these are true: The task has at least two genuine ownership surfaces. Each writer can own exclusive paths. The interface between those paths is frozen before implementation. The controller retains integration, system checks, and final review. Every worker returns concise evidence rather than a narrative transcript. One external acceptance bar can evaluate every execution method. flowchart TD A["One task contract"] --> B{"Independent write surfaces?"} B -- "No" --> C["One agent or sequential work"] B -- "Yes" --> D{"Frozen interface and exclusive paths?"} D -- "No" --> C D -- "Yes" --> E["Bounded workers"] E --> F["Controller integrates and evaluates"] F --> G{"Coverage or elapsed-time value exceeds coordination cost?"} G -- "Unproven" --> H["Keep measuring"] G -- "Repeated evidence" --> I["Adopt for this task class"] Job titles are not ownership boundaries. “Backend agent,” “test agent,” and “review agent” may still collide on the same files or execute dependent stages. A useful boundary is concrete: one writer owns incident/** , another owns web/** , and n

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems […]

OpenAI's Codex CLI is a genuinely good coding agent, but out of the box it runs OpenAI models on OpenAI billing. Sometimes you want Claude Opus for a gnarly refactor, Kimi K2.7 Code for cheap long sessions, or a model served from EU infrastructure because your client asks where tokens go. What most people miss: Codex has custom providers built in. It speaks the Responses API to whatever base_url you give it, so any gateway that implements the Responses API can act as the router behind Codex. No forks, no proxies, one config block. Option 1: the config block Codex reads ~/.codex/config.toml . Add a provider and a profile: [model_providers.opper] name = "Opper" base_url = "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat" env_key = "OPPER_API_KEY" wire_api = "responses" [profiles.opus] model = "anthropic/claude-opus-4-7" model_provider = "opper" [profiles.kimi] model = "moonshot/kimi-k3" model_provider = "opper" I'm using Opper here (disclosure: I work there), an EU-hosted gateway with 700+ models behind one API key that implements the Responses API. Export the key and launch with a profile: export OPPER_API_KEY = "your-key" codex --profile opus That's the whole router. Yes, that means Claude running inside OpenAI's own CLI, which never stops being funny. Option 2: one command If you don't want to touch config files, the Opper CLI writes exactly that block for you (with sentinel markers, so it never clobbers your existing config and can cleanly remove itself): npm install -g @opperai/cli opper launch codex It detects Codex (installs it with --install if missing), configures the provider, and starts it with preset profiles. opper launch codex --model moonshot/kimi-k3 picks a model at launch. Which models actually make sense in Codex openai/gpt-5.3-codex : the model Codex was built for, via API billing. Honest note: if you already have a ChatGPT plan, Codex is included there and that's the cheaper path for this one model. The router play is for everything else. anthropic/claude-opus-4-7

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama […]