Security at OpenAI

Joined January 2009
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Winston Howes retweeted
Jun 5
Lockdown mode is now available in ChatGPT. We rolled this out for organizations a few months ago, and now it's available for all users on all plans. Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the final stage of data exfiltration from a prompt injection attack by limiting outbound network requests that could transfer sensitive data to an attacker. Lockdown mode is not meant for everyone. However, for folks who have an elevated risk profile - due to who they are, what they work on, or the types of data they work with - it's an excellent tool for further securing themselves. This has some tradeoffs on functionality and utility, but for these users, the tradeoff is worthwhile. Proud to see the team ship another wonderful feature as we continue our journey building the most secure, useful, and safest AI capabilities on the planet. help.openai.com/en/articles/…
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Winston Howes retweeted
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@winhowes with Codex implemented and launched this feature in record time. 🚀
Jun 5
Lockdown mode is now available in ChatGPT. We rolled this out for organizations a few months ago, and now it's available for all users on all plans. Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the final stage of data exfiltration from a prompt injection attack by limiting outbound network requests that could transfer sensitive data to an attacker. Lockdown mode is not meant for everyone. However, for folks who have an elevated risk profile - due to who they are, what they work on, or the types of data they work with - it's an excellent tool for further securing themselves. This has some tradeoffs on functionality and utility, but for these users, the tradeoff is worthwhile. Proud to see the team ship another wonderful feature as we continue our journey building the most secure, useful, and safest AI capabilities on the planet. help.openai.com/en/articles/…
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We launched lockdown mode to all @ChatGPTapp users. For more security conscious users, this gives an extra layer of protection by reducing the risk of data exfiltration from prompt injection attacks. help.openai.com/en/articles/…
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Codex made it so easy for me to build this across iOS, Android, and web; it’s so crazy how software engineering has changed
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Winston Howes retweeted
Build long-running agents with more control over agent execution. New capabilities in the Agents SDK: • Run agents in controlled sandboxes • Inspect and customize the open-source harness • Control when memories are created and where they’re stored
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Winston Howes retweeted
So excited to share that we're bringing Computer Use to Codex. Computer Use lets Codex see, click, and type into your Mac apps, with its own cursor. It's a magical feeling to have agents using your apps in the background, and still get to use your computer at the same time.
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Winston Howes retweeted
.@OpenAI blog post: Designing Agents to Resist Prompt Injection We’ve found that prompt injections are evolving to look more like social engineering over time as models get smarter and mitigations need to evolve too. openai.com/index/designing-a…
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Winston Howes retweeted
🚀 health sync is out Analyze your health data locally across providers. It syncs data from Oura, Withings, Hevy, Strava, and Eight Sleep (more coming) into a local database you fully control. I run it on a cron and use @openclaw to generate daily summaries of my activity and sleep. github.com/filipe-m-almeida/…
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Winston Howes retweeted
21 Nov 2025
We're taking ChatGPT privacy to the next level. OpenAI is putting together a founding team to bring advanced encryption-based privacy to ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and our future consumer devices. If you are an expert in TEEs and E2EE, or a product engineer who cares deeply about privacy, reach out!
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Winston Howes retweeted
8 Aug 2025
GPT-5 rollout updates: *We are going to double GPT-5 rate limits for ChatGPT Plus users as we finish rollout. *We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o. We will watch usage as we think about how long to offer legacy models for. *GPT-5 will seem smarter starting today. Yesterday, the autoswitcher broke and was out of commission for a chunk of the day, and the result was GPT-5 seemed way dumber. Also, we are making some interventions to how the decision boundary works that should help you get the right model more often. *We will make it more transparent about which model is answering a given query. *We will change the UI to make it easier to manually trigger thinking. *Rolling out to everyone is taking a bit longer. It’s a massive change at big scale. For example, our API traffic has about doubled over the past 24 hours… We will continue to work to get things stable and will keep listening to feedback. As we mentioned, we expected some bumpiness as we roll out so many things at once. But it was a little more bumpy than we hoped for!
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Looks like everyone's excited across the industry this week. Good good
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Kudos to @Snapchat and specifically @GoodLuckAmerica for seeming to have the most balanced reporting on the LA protests so far. Not sensationalized just facts
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Winston Howes retweeted
18 Dec 2024
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Winston Howes retweeted
10 Dec 2024
we significantly underestimated demand for sora; it is going to take awhile to get everyone access. trying to figure out how to do it as fast as possible!
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I'm calling it. "Viva Las Vegas" is writing itself as a future breakup single from @taylorswift13
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Winston Howes retweeted
25 Oct 2015
Finished "in the money" in @PokerStars #HomeGames at CodeHorses2 taking 1 place out of 2 players. homegames.com

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