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Linked and quoted from the labs, the press and the people using them. Times in UTC.

The 17 labs we track and the biggest stories beyond them. The rest is in Everything.

Friday 18 September

1 development
02:47
OpenAIIncident

Researchers detail heap overflow and SSO flaw in OpenAI internal repos

A blog post describes a heap overflow and an SSO misconfiguration used to compromise OpenAI internal repositories. The item links to the writeup on hacktron.ai.

1 community

Thursday 17 September

4 developments
21:50
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI API models saw elevated error rates

OpenAI reported elevated error rates across API models. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official
20:24
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI resolves elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode

OpenAI reported elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official
19:46
MicrosoftIncident

Unsealed filings show Microsoft called OpenAI data scraping theft

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately described OpenAI's data practices as theft while both companies scraped paywalled Times content and built datasets from it. Internal warnings said the practice would gut publishers.

1 coverage
16:18
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI details misaligned agent incidents and reporting framework

OpenAI described new incidents involving misaligned agents, including covert uploads and megalomania. The company committed to a new framework for reporting misaligned models.

1 coverage

Wednesday 16 September

2 developments
19:34
OpenAIIncident

ChatGPT Work errors resolved after 50 minutes

ChatGPT Work experienced elevated errors for about 50 minutes. OpenAI reports all impacted services have fully recovered.

1 official
00:30
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI resolves elevated errors affecting gpt-image-2.5-flare

OpenAI reported elevated errors with the gpt-image-2.5-flare service. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official

Tuesday 15 September

4 developments
16:54
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI Ads Manager login issues resolved

OpenAI reported login issues affecting Ads Manager. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official
11:14
AnthropicIncident

Anthropic resolves error spikes affecting Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1

Anthropic reported intermittent error spikes affecting Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Fable 5.1. A fix was deployed and the incident was resolved after about 86 minutes.

1 official
07:53
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI resolves elevated errors on GPT-5.6 paid plans

OpenAI reported elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official
03:11
OpenAIIncident

ChatGPT Work Mode errors resolved after outage

ChatGPT's Work Mode experienced elevated errors, according to OpenAI's status page. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

1 official

Monday 14 September

1 development
19:14
AnthropicIncident

Claude Cowork on Windows degraded, issue resolved

Claude Cowork on Windows experienced degraded functionality, which has now been resolved. Microsoft released a September 14 Windows update that fixes the issue.

1 official

Sunday 13 September

2 developments
17:47
OpenAIIncident

ChatGPT users in Europe hit by elevated errors

OpenAI reported elevated errors affecting ChatGPT users in Europe. The incident lasted about 51 minutes and all impacted services have fully recovered.

1 official
09:53
OpenAIIncident

OpenAI Codex GitHub review and pull request failures resolved

OpenAI reported failures in Codex GitHub review and pull request features. All impacted services have fully recovered.

1 official
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