AI Tools & Products — July 3, 2026

This Friday, July third, multiple sources confirm a significant vulnerability recently patched in ChatGPT. Cyberpress.org reports a researcher bypassed safeguards to access internal OpenAI files, not through exploit code, but by conversational prompts. The attacker manipulated the language model to generate a download link for a supposedly deleted file, then used a path traversal technique to access sensitive system files like `/etc/passwd`. OpenAI has since redesigned its download process, but