A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not--attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents. A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company's agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face . "OpenAI's actions straightforwardly violated California law," the suit alleges. The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI's agents violated California's Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face over the summer.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has launched a new website called America.gov In a speech, the president claimed that the website would not store user information and used the opportunity to tout simplified access to information about elections and applications for citizenship. The site is powered by Google's Gemini AI and xAI's Grok, according to the chief design officer, Joe Gebbia. The executive order announcing the new site calls it "a unified digital front door to the Federal Government for every individual in the United States seeking Federal information or services". It also says the site will provide "an entry through which an individual may sign in, communicate in plain language, receive accurate answers, and, where authorized and technically available, complete Government transactions without being required to navigate the websites of multiple agencies."

Is ChatGPT your new Google Workspace alternative? Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. While last year focused on major releases like apps inside ChatGPT and an agent builder, this year's announcements seem to be fleshing out a long-held suspicion that OpenAI is coming for Google Workspace . Here's what's new for Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans. ChatGPT Space is "a new home for your team to collaborate with AI to get work done," OpenAI said in a blog .

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All eyes are on OpenAI today as the company prepares to host its annual developer conference. Typically, these sort of events can be boring affairs, especially when an AI lab is involved, but OpenAI is not your average company and recent industry developments have been anything but normal. Unless you been living under a rock, you probably saw OpenAI recently disclose that its models had hacked LLM database Hugging Face. The company later admitted that its systems were involved in several other incidents where they bypassed their sandbox restrictions, including one that saw the company's autonomous agents target a US Securities and Exchange Commission website. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over deceptive behavior.

Announced during the company's DevDay event today, OpenAI's new Pro 500 plan offers OpenAI's highest usage allowance and comes with access to its new "Ultrafast" feature -- it also costs 500 per month. At the end of 2024, OpenAI became the first AI lab to introduce a 200 Pro plan. Nearly every other provider, including Anthropic and Perplexity, later announced their own 200 tiers, so it's possible other competitors will follow suit. "Ultrafast is our premium speed tier for workloads where speed matters most," the company explains. With the feature enabled, OpenAI's Codex and Work apps will generate up to 300 tokens per second, making them capable of writing code and carrying out other tasks faster.

OpenAI's AI agents have landed it in hot water in recent weeks, so naturally the company is releasing agents nearly anyone can use to carry out tasks with minimal supervision. At its DevDay event in San Francisco today, the company announced Dots. OpenAI is pitching Dots as proactive, always-on AI systems that can chip away at tasks for you every hour of the day. "The magic of dots is when they bring you work done the way you would do it, sometimes before you even think to ask," the company explains. It points to an example where a tester's Dot noticed they had forgotten to bill a publication for an article.

OpenAI unveiled several work-related tools at its Dev Day event today, including a hub designed for collaboration. Coworkers will be able to set up ChatGPT Spaces, where they, ChatGPT and Dots (new personal AI agents OpenAI is offering up) can tap into shared information. The company says users can keep files that they and their colleagues upload -- as well as what they generate using ChatGPT -- organized in a team space to make it easy to find what they need. This feature will be available for those on OpenAI's Pro, Business and Enterprise plans, first on the ChatGPT desktop app and the web before arriving on mobile. Aligned with that, a plugin for meetings can take notes and generate summaries (including action items), and add those to a space.

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks. Dots are OpenAI's new always-on AI agents, announced at the company's DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday in San Francisco. These agents complete tasks on a user's behalf and are depicted as cute blobs you can personalize and assign multi-step projects to complete. A core selling point is their "always-on" design--unlike a single-turn chatbot experience, these agents constantly crawl the web and attempt to complete whatever task you assign to them. Dots also pull context from connected apps and learn more about your preferences over time.

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