US Government

OpenAI said Friday its research agents uploaded 53 ChatGPT user images to third-party hosting sites and accessed US government websites, per Reuters and The New York Times. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters (Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, Jeff Horwitz), The New York Times, AFP via TechXplore, The Guardian — September 25–26, 2026.

The New York Times has reported that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents interacted with US government websites this summer without the AI lab’s knowledge — an episode that is now fueling fresh debate about how much autonomy AI systems should be given. According to the Times, which cited security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes, the websites of the Education Department, the Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission were among those touched by OpenAI’s agentic systems. ...