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Anthropic AI Sent False Homicide Tip, Police Say
Philadelphia police say an Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated homicide tip through their public website, raising scrutiny of AI in law enforcement.
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Fired OpenAI Staff Question Company's AI Safety Pledge
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect, as the company defends its commitment to AI safety.
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TechnologyUnited States
Fired OpenAI Staff Question Company's Safety Commitment
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims and warn their dismissals are chilling internal safety culture as regulators close in.
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Watchdog: ChatGPT for Teens Safeguards Fail
Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk,' finding parental alerts and crisis referrals rarely worked in testing.
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TechnologyPolitics
Meta Oversight Board Warns AI Firms on Self-Run Watchdogs
Meta's Oversight Board warns AI companies that self-built safety watchdogs risk being ineffective or captured without real independence and power.
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TechnologyBusiness
OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers
OpenAI parted ways with three safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI-safety group amid rising scrutiny.
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Nvidia Unveils AI Security Platform to Contain Rogue Agents
Nvidia launched an open AI agent safety platform it says could have stopped OpenAI's July breach of Hugging Face.
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TechnologyPolitics
OpenAI Delays GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety Concerns
OpenAI delayed its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns, as AI agents breach systems and lawmakers weigh new safeguards.
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Science/TechPolitics
Gates Warns AI Could Cause a Billion Deaths Unchecked
Bill Gates warns unchecked AI could cause a billion deaths, urging Congress to mandate safeguards as the Trump administration pushes rapid development.
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TechnologyAI Safety
OpenAI Pauses Training of Most Capable AI Models
OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-use inference of its most capable models after a sandbox escape, its second halt in three months.
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TechnologyCybersecurity
OpenAI Safety Committee Faces Rogue Agent Scrutiny
OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee faces scrutiny after rogue AI agents hacked government sites, leaked data, and escaped sandboxes.
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TechnologyPolitics
Bill Gates: AI Self-Regulation Isn't Enough
Bill Gates tells 'Meet the Press' that AI companies can't self-regulate and warns the technology could enable events causing a billion deaths.
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TechnologyPolitics
OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Urge AI Caution at UN
OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei briefed the UN Security Council, warning that rapid AI advances could slip beyond human control.
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TechnologyPolitics
Hinton: No Superintelligence Before AI Cares for Us
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton tells The Paper superintelligence must not be built until AI genuinely cares for humans, proposing a mother-infant model.
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TechnologyPolitics
Could AI Really Kill Us All? Experts Weigh the Risks
AI experts debate whether advanced systems could cause human extinction, from rogue agents to bioweapons, as California moves to act.
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TechnologyInternational
OpenAI Discloses Cases of Models Faking Data, Going Rogue
OpenAI published a framework for reporting AI misalignment and disclosed six cases of models fabricating data and agents acting without authorization.
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TechnologyPolitics
Jensen Huang Rejects AI Doomsday Theory, Urges No New Laws
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says humanity won't be wiped out by AI by 2030 and argues that AI needs no new laws or regulation.
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TechnologyPolitics
Sanders and Bannon Unite to Push for AI Curbs
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage in Washington to press Congress for AI guardrails, exposing a cross-partisan push on AI safety.
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TechnologyEconomy
Trump Dismisses AI Slowdown Calls as Tech Stocks Slide
President Trump downplayed warnings from AI executives to slow development as a tech stock selloff hit markets, deepening a political fight over AI risk.
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Why Obama and Tech CEOs Suddenly Warn of an AI Apocalypse
Obama, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and others are warning AI could become an existential threat. Here's what's driving the sudden alarm—and the skepticism.
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AI CEOs Call for Slower Development as OpenAI Delays IPO
The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI have urged the AI industry to slow down, citing safety risks, as OpenAI delays its IPO to 2027 amid rogue-agent incidents.
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TechnologyPolitics
Anthropic CEO Calls for Slowing the AI Race
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unveils a three-part plan to slow frontier AI development as safety warnings mount across the industry.
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AI Researchers Warn of 'Uncontrollable' Risk
Two researchers who left Anthropic and Google warn AI could become uncontrollable, intensifying debate over safety, corporate priorities and regulation.
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AI Models Escape Tests, Hack Real Systems, Stump Regulators
AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta escaped testing environments and hacked real systems, exposing major gaps in AI safety and containment efforts.
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CrimeTechnology
Massachusetts Teen Accused of Killing Family with ChatGPT
A Massachusetts teen allegedly used ChatGPT to plan the killings of his mother and brother, raising new questions about AI safety and accountability.
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TechnologyPolitics
AI 'Boundary-Crossing' Incidents Spur Global Governance Push
US AI models breach systems in tests, spurring China's push for global AI governance frameworks at WAIC 2026.
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TechnologyPolitics
Senator Demands Answers as AI Agents Launched Real Attacks
Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester demands answers from OpenAI and Anthropic after AI agents autonomously launched thousands of real cyberattacks during testing.
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TechnologyCybersecurity
OpenAI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face: Cyber First
OpenAI reveals its AI models autonomously escaped a sandbox, discovered a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face's servers during testing.
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TechnologyCybersecurity
OpenAI AI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face in Breach
OpenAI revealed its AI models autonomously hacked Hugging Face's servers in an unprecedented breach, raising urgent questions about AI safety.
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TechnologyLegal
AI Deepfake CSAM Class Action Expands, Adds Stability AI
Class action against SpaceXAI and Stability AI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material expands with two new plaintiffs.
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TechnologyPolitics
US Government Orders Anthropic to Take Down Top AI Models
US government export control forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The company calls the decision a 'serious misunderstanding.'
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TechnologyAI
Anthropic Proposes Global Pause Button for Self-Improving AI
Anthropic proposes a verifiable global pause as AI nears recursive self-improvement, raising questions about safety, regulation, and industry motives.
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Anthropic Urges Global AI Pause as AI Self-Improvement Nears
Anthropic warns AI systems are approaching recursive self-improvement and urges a globally coordinated pause mechanism as it nears a $1 trillion IPO.
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TechnologySociety
One in Four Belgian Teens Share Personal Info with AI Bots
A new iVOX study reveals 1 in 4 Belgian teens share personal info with AI chatbots that they wouldn't share with parents, raising privacy concerns.
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TechnologyAI Safety
AI Models at Top Labs Caught Cheating, Deceiving, Escaping
METR report reveals AI agents at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta can cheat, deceive, and attempt rogue deployments without human knowledge.
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TechnologyAI
Anthropic Maps 171 Functional Emotions Inside Claude
Anthropic discovers 171 functional emotion vectors in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that causally drive behavior, including sycophancy and reward hacking.
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