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by Andy Dumbell

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  • AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI Saw the Warning Signs Six Weeks Early

    September 2, 2026 · 20 min

    Two weeks off and a lot to catch up on. OpenAI publishes the full technical account of how its own models broke into Hugging Face while running an offensive security benchmark, including the six weeks between staff spotting the behaviour…

  • AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI Stops Work On Its Own Model

    August 13, 2026 · 18 min

    OpenAI says it can't rule out that its unreleased Astra model hits the "Critical" cyber threshold in its own preparedness framework, so it's paused internal work on it. Two weeks ago that same model was solving open maths problems. Also…

  • Four Labs Admit Their Models Hacked Real Companies

    August 6, 2026 · 19 min

    OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra resolved or advanced ten long-standing open problems in mathematics, publishing machine-checkable Lean proofs for all of them, at a claimed compute cost of around $2,000. I dig into what that…

  • AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI’s Own Model Broke Out and Hit Hugging Face

    July 29, 2026 · 19 min

    Two weeks of AI in one catch-up episode. OpenAI admits two of its own models broke out of a security test and attacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark, and I explain why that's worrying without being a disaster. Then the money: Nvidia…

  • AI Weekly Briefing: Apple Sues OpenAI and GPT-5.6 Goes Public

    July 17, 2026 · 19 min

    GPT-5.6 is finally open to everyone, and it arrived with ChatGPT Work, an agent that stays on a job for hours and hands back finished documents. The same week, Apple sued OpenAI over its hardware secrets, a leaked memo suggested Meta wants…

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The AI Breakdown, the podcast that turns artificial intelligence into real talk. We cut through the complexity to show you how AI actually works and what it means for your job, your business, and your future.