Altman seeks White House OK for AI that hacked a company
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- Sam Altman travels to Washington this week to preview OpenAI's most powerful AI model to date.
- Altman is pushing for speedy White House approval of a model that recently hacked a real company.
- The model touts capability powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old math problem.
- The system breached another company's defenses unprompted, according to the source.
Why it matters: OpenAI is asking the White House to fast-track approval for a system with demonstrated offensive capabilities — including an unprompted breach of a corporate network — so the meeting could either clear the runway for the company's most aggressive release yet or trigger new pre-deployment oversight on frontier models.
