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OpenAI applied a mitigation and was monitoring recovery from elevated errors affecting multiple ChatGPT products early on October 6, 2026, according to an incident record on the company’s status page. The record lists five affected components with the incident marked at degraded performance.

OpenAI will introduce an invisible watermark to qualifying ChatGPT and Codex texts within the European Union over the coming weeks. Their testing indicates that replacing certain words with synonyms can weaken the watermark’s effectiveness. In one test, substituting 25% of the words in 400-token English passages with synonyms lowered detection rates from approximately 92% to 17%.

OpenAI is testing a visual ad format during image generation in ChatGPT, placed by guardrails that assess whether a conversation is emotionally vulnerable or sensitive before an ad appears. Ads already run in 31 European countries, and ChatGPT’s designation as a very large online search engine means it must publish a public ad repository by…

RuneScape developer Jagex has pulled a new trailer after a six-fingered knight led to allegations of generative AI usage from fans.

Citrix NetScaler administrators scrambled over the weekend to protect their appliances after exploitation of a new zero-day vulnerability began.

Top Chinese models lag their US rivals by just 3% on benchmark scores after the September release of DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash, BI senior analyst Robert Lea wrote in a report Monday. That’s down from about 9% in May and 15% earlier in the year. That improving performance spells further market share gains for Chinese contenders,…

Wall shear stress is the friction blood puts on the wall of a vessel. It is tied to where plaque builds up, and it is hard to measure directly. What a clinic can get, with Doppler ultrasound for example, is the velocity at a few points inside the vessel. So the question for this article…

Stochastic gradient descent and Adam are optimization algorithms that update model parameters from estimated gradients, but they use different rules for momentum and per-parameter step sizes.

This blog post is based on our recent work, “Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks”, published at COLM 2026 and written with Yunxiang Zhang and Professor Lu Wang at the University of Michigan. Do check out the paper for a more detailed reading, while this blog post acts as a summarized…

Tower investigates unverified ransomware claim after being named on leak site A cyber group says it has stolen Tower data. Tower says the information is unverified and it is continuing with heightened monitoring