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OpenAI has announced it will stop training its frontier AI models on live internet data, citing what it calls significant risks. The move is a notable reversal for a company that has long leaned on real-time web access as a competitive advantage, and it comes just weeks after one of its own engineers publicly argued that cutting off internet access wasn't a viable solution.
That tension between capability and caution extends to the world of AI coding tools as well. Users of Claude Code, Anthropic's developer assistant, have flagged that the tool will refuse to handle passwords or interact with password managers, even when asked directly. It's a deliberate guardrail, but for developers trying to automate workflows end to end, it's also a real friction point — a reminder that safety decisions always come with trade-offs.
And shifting from software to hardware, NASA has updated its lunar lander plans ahead of upcoming Moon missions, while also resolving a long-standing technical problem with the Orion capsule that had been quietly complicating return-to-Moon timelines. The agency hasn't said exactly when crews will land, but the pieces are finally starting to align after years of delays.
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