Sam Altman

Someone posted a 130-digit number on September 3 and said it divides RSA-260, a challenge number that had stood since 1991. Six million views later, the claim is confirmed — we multiplied the two factors ourselves and got the challenge number exactly. The interesting part is what happened to the story on its way through AI summarisers.

A viral post has Sam Altman claiming a single California almond uses more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. The per-query number is roughly consistent with published data-center water research — but the comparison itself dodges the questions people actually have about AI's water use.

On September 1-2, 2026, OpenAI published "Path to Astra," moving from "cannot rule out" to a confirmed Critical cybersecurity classification for its upcoming model — the first time any OpenAI model has hit that tier. The post details concrete safeguard upgrades, an 91.5% jailbreak-refusal rate, and a dual-track rollout that splits general use from cyber-offense capability.

ChatGPT Work experienced a partial outage August 31, 2026 lasting roughly five hours and twenty-four minutes. Plus subscribers lost Work mode entirely for a stretch; OpenAI applied a mitigation at 4:01 PM ET and declared full recovery at 4:28 PM ET. Microsoft Exchange Online reported separate issues the same afternoon.

OpenAI set a November 12, 2026 shutoff for its models in Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition. Cursor CEO Michael Truell responded that OpenAI is only ~5% of traffic and that Cursor is negotiating. Anthropic, meanwhile, said it will increase compute for Claude in Cursor — the opposite move. This guide covers what GPT-5.x and Codex users should do now, and what the split response means for multi-model routing.