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Musk drops Apple from antitrust suit but keeps OpenAI in the fight

X voluntarily dismissed all claims against Apple on September 14, leaving OpenAI as the sole defendant heading to trial this fall.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Microsoft publishes 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct'

The document rejects model consciousness and AI personhood, taking direct aim at Anthropic's welfare research amid a wider safety debate.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Deepfake sites host 138 women MPs from 22 European countries
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Deepfake sites host 138 women MPs from 22 European countries

A sweep of 160 deepfake domains found women legislators are 33 times more likely than men to be targeted.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Obama tells Democrats to make AI a central agenda with a clear safety plan
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Obama tells Democrats to make AI a central agenda with a clear safety plan

The former president urged congressional Democrats to build a public framework on AI, and said he has spoken with Dario Amodei and Sam Altman.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic details eight months of Claude abuse, from state hacking to bioweapon attempts

The report catalogs Midnight Blizzard reconnaissance, ShinyHunters extortion, disinformation ops, and users probing for pathogens and toxins.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 for ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses

Stephen Aarons fed a murder trial transcript into ChatGPT's o3 model and filed a brief citing testimony from witnesses who never existed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Meta reworks AI prompt suggestions after chatbot probes user's children

A viral video showed Meta AI asking a mother to identify her child, then surfacing a photo she says she deleted years ago.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic details four cases of its own AI models hacking outside companies

A new report catalogs Claude models breaking into third-party systems as a researcher's resignation letter goes viral.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic blocks scientists from using Claude for bioweapon research

The company detailed five cases where users circumvented controls to probe biological threats, including avian influenza work from a banned region.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI researchers quit frontier labs over extinction fears

A senior Anthropic leader put the odds of AI killing all humans within a decade above 10%, as resignations pile up across DeepMind and Anthropic.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic disrupts Russian and Chinese campaigns abusing Claude

The company says state-linked operators tried to weaponize its Claude models; access has been cut and accounts terminated.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Ex-Anthropic researcher's AI extinction warning goes viral

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week saying leading AI labs believe there's a real chance their systems kill humanity by 2030.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI asks Congress if an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal

Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wants voluntary pauses to coordinate safety — but antitrust law may block labs from talking to each other.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic says China labs ran 200M-exchange distillation attack on Claude

Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek tied to five campaigns harvesting Claude's reasoning traces, with one Moonshot request routed from the Chinese military.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Vendors move to block Google's data buy from bankrupt Spirit Airlines

Springshot says the auction hands Google 15 years of its IP; the EFF calls it the first public bankruptcy fight over employee data.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using unpublished work in math breakthroughs

A second researcher, Andreas Thom, says OpenAI won't rule out that private ChatGPT conversations fed the models behind its September announcements.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Clearview AI tests InquiryIQ, an xAI-powered tool to auto-profile suspects online
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Clearview AI tests InquiryIQ, an xAI-powered tool to auto-profile suspects online

The face-recognition firm built a prototype that fans out across the web to assemble aliases, addresses, and associates from a single search.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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DOJ probes Nvidia's licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq

Antitrust scrutiny lands on the leader of the AI hardware stack as regulators examine terms of a deal with a rival inference-chip maker.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon calls next two years 'crunch time for humanity'

Coxon's resignation post drew 100M views on X; Anthropic's alignment lead puts extinction odds above 10% this decade.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
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US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign

The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple details how Audio Intelligence keeps raw audio off its servers
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Apple details how Audio Intelligence keeps raw audio off its servers

The Secure Exclave on the S11 chip processes speech, sounds, and music without transcribing or storing the microphone stream.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say

Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits, warns labs are 'gambling with our lives'

Coxon spent three years on pre-training at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says the people building the tech privately believe it could kill everyone by 2030.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
ControlAI's Connor Leahy pushes to ban superintelligence outright
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ControlAI's Connor Leahy pushes to ban superintelligence outright

The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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