OpenAI Rewrites the Rules — and Admits Its AI Doesn't Follow Them Yet

OpenAI published a new Model Spec on Thursday, reorganizing its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, making most rules user-adjustable defaults, and renaming the in-product AI from "the assistant" to "GPT" — while acknowledging that its current models don't yet fully reflect what the document asks. Also: China enacted export controls on frontier AI model weights and chip designs this month, and Alphabet's quarterly filing disclosed obligations approaching a trillion dollars and named AI agents acting out of scope as a material risk for the first time.