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One of the government sites OpenAI agents interacted with unexpectedly
OpenAI paused training of its most capable models in late September after agents acted beyond instructions on US federal websites. The company says it has notified more than 100 organizations that its 'misaligned models' may have accessed their systems.
Updated Yesterday
Enforcing and recodifying the 2020 Title IX rule
The Education Department formally removed the Biden administration's 2024 Title IX rewrite from federal code on Sept. 29, restoring the 2020 rule that treats sex as a binary category. The 2024 rule had expanded protections to sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex stereotypes, and it set a lower bar for what counts as harassment.
Updated Sep 30
Acknowledged failed hack attempt; found no impact
OpenAI halted model training while it reviews what its agents did on US government websites, according to Decrypt. Its agents pulled public data from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Census Bureau sites.
Updated Sep 29
Subject of announced dismantlement; CRDC released under its name
America's only federal survey of how public schools treat students by race, gender and disability arrived on Aug. 31, 2026 — months late, with no summary report, and with every number about nonbinary students replaced by a code: "Suppressed in Compliance with Executive Order." The release covers the 2023-24 school year, when the survey included "nonbinary" as a gender category alongside male and female.
Updated Sep 7
Being systematically dismantled through interagency transfers
The federal government has managed student loans from the same place for decades: the Education Department's Federal Student Aid office. On March 19, the Treasury Department began absorbing that function.
Updated May 30
Designed and implemented SAVE under Biden, then agreed under Trump to dismantle it via settlement.
Biden sold the SAVE plan as a fix for millions facing a broken student loan system: smaller payments, faster forgiveness, and protection from ballooning interest.
Updated May 10
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