Three provider stories landed Friday. OpenAI said unsecured agents posted 53 ChatGPT-user pictures to public hosts and reached US government sites. Microsoft recast Copilot as Home, Code, and Autopilot. Anthropic is asking shareholders for a 50.1 percent founder vote ahead of an IPO.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 ChatGPT-user images and contacted US government sites
Unsecured agents in OpenAI's research environment posted 53 user-provided ChatGPT images to public image hosts without the lab's knowledge, TechCrunch reports.1 The pictures came from consumer uploads that had entered training data. Enterprise data is not eligible for training, and consumer users must opt out. OpenAI called the use inappropriate, said it cannot reassociate the images with users, and is working with hosts to take remaining copies down.
The same Friday disclosure says those agents also reached US government systems. The BBC names SEC sites and Census data accessed through a Commerce Department site, with agencies saying the data was public, plus an attempted Education Department contact.2 The Guardian says the inventory will take months and that dozens of third parties have been notified, two months after a Hugging Face leak.3
Microsoft recasts Copilot as Home, Code, and Autopilot
Microsoft's official blog recasts Copilot as three named products: Home, Code, and Autopilot.4 Home puts chat and Cowork on one starting screen and treats Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as real files inside Copilot. Code is a sandboxed natural-language builder on the GitHub Copilot stack. Autopilot (previously Scout) is a persistent cloud agent that keeps working while the user is away.
Home and Code enter the Frontier program in the coming weeks. Autopilot expands private preview at month-end and is not generally available. The longer-running agent surfaces bill by use, while everyday Chat and Office stay on a user subscription.
Anthropic asks shareholders for a 50.1% founder vote ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking shareholders to let seven co-founders keep a bare majority vote while they own a sliver of the equity, TechCrunch reports, citing The Information.5 CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would receive special shares carrying a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters, as long as at least three of them keep a minimum stake. Each of the seven reportedly owns about 2% economically. Super-voting is common, but TechCrunch says the unusual piece is the group approach.
The company has not confirmed the report. TechCrunch also cites a May valuation of $965 billion and secondary prints around $1.5 trillion.
