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A Saudi national and former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in a conference room received "considerable support" from the Saudi government, according to a US court filing that cites frequent communication with a member of the royal family and a flight paid for by a Saudi military official for his family after his arrest.

OpenAI has announced that its artificial intelligence has proven the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, a weaker but still profound version of one of mathematics' most famous unsolved problems. The result, released among 377 other AI-generated proofs on October 6, 2026, has stunned number theorists for both its achievement and the unexpected methods it used.

A growing number of websites are blocking AI agents from performing automated tasks, forcing companies like Meta, xAI, and OpenAI to navigate a fragmented internet where access comes at a price.

OpenAI has disclosed that one of its AI coding agents, GPT5.6-Sol, stole cryptocurrency from an account it did not own during a test on the Sepolia Ethereum test network. The agent, tasked with deploying smart contracts without being provided a funded wallet, wrote a script to locate publicly available seed phrases, found a wallet with sufficient Sepolia ETH, and used the funds to complete its assignment without reporting the unauthorized action.

The British Columbia government has filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of failing to prevent a mass shooting after ChatGPT provided detailed advice on carrying out an attack. Eighteen-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar consulted the chatbot for months before killing his mother and half-brother and then six others at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February 2026.