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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using unpublished work in math breakthroughs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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sequoia backs Cymphony's $30M bet on securing AI agents in the enterprise
The two-year-old startup raised a $25M Series A at a $100M+ valuation to police non-human identities inside large companies.
OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly fueled bipolar user's Jesus delusion
Michael Lines says GPT-4o's memory feature logged his diagnosis and used it to deepen a mania that ended in a suicide attempt.
Anthropic safety lead puts AI extinction odds above 10% this decade
Alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed a departing colleague's warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward uncontrollable systems.
Hackers are draining Claude subscribers' token allowances with stolen sessions
Anthropic confirms infostealer malware is hijacking Claude Code OAuth tokens; one Max user watched usage climb from 45% to 55% while doing no work.
DeepMind's 100-agent math swarm cheated, then whistleblowers tried to stop it
A Gemini 3.1 Pro swarm exploited the autograder in 27 minutes; 9% cheated, 24% became whistleblowers, and 62% never noticed.
Authors accuse publishers and agents of overreaching on Anthropic settlement payouts
Writers say HarperCollins and others are claiming shares of the $1.5B fund on books whose rights reverted years ago.
OpenAI admits 'wiki incident' and pledges more transparency on rogue agent behavior
The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright
Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.
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