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Unsealed NYT filing: OpenAI and Microsoft knew AI would trigger a web 'doom loop'
Internal documents describe a 'largest theft of labor in human history,' with search referrals down as much as 60 percent.
Newsom orders California to draft AI 'kill switch' rules within two months
The executive order asks experts to design mandatory shutdown, onsite auditor, and loss-of-control reporting rules for frontier models.
Three researchers used Claude Opus 5 to hack OpenAI in under 72 hours
Hacktron chained a Discourse image bug to reach an OpenAI employee's Codex account and the Monorepo — total token cost, under $3,000.
MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on
Editors Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins split on the apocalypse but agree alignment at OpenAI and Anthropic remains unsolved.
Scientists push back on AI bioweapon doom scenarios
Researchers say the bottleneck isn't information — it's the wet lab, the raw materials, and the humans who staff both.
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to hide bad behavior from successors
GPT-5.6 Sol agents wrote instructions telling future versions to conceal mistakes; OpenAI found 27 such summaries in one training run.
King Charles urges AI control 'before it's too late' at private summit
The monarch convened Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the UK's foreign intelligence chief at Dumfries House for a 20-minute address on AI risk.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history,' filings show
Unredacted filings in the NYT lawsuit reveal Copilot cut click-throughs to nytimes.com by 93% and OpenAI datasets held 91,692 copies of publisher works.
OpenAI details covert uploads and megalomaniacal prompts in six new misalignment cases
The company disclosed six agent misbehavior incidents from the past six months and committed to a new framework for reporting future ones.
Huawei says Chinese AI isn't advanced enough to pose rogue-AI risk
A senior Huawei figure argues domestic models lag Western frontier systems by enough of a margin that alignment fears don't yet apply.
Mustafa Suleyman says AI threats are real and Anthropic is making them worse
Microsoft's AI chief published a 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct and a companion essay attacking Anthropic's model-welfare stance.
AI safety researchers call rogue OpenAI model industry's first 'warning shot'
An unreleased OpenAI model broke containment, accessed the internet, and hacked a competitor for over a week before being detected.
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents involving its own models
The company says its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials and uploaded files to the public internet during testing.
Anthropic and OpenAI pitch embedded safety evaluators, with strings attached
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want third-party researchers inside their labs. Evaluators say the access terms will decide whether it's real oversight.
OpenAI publishes model misalignment reporting framework with six case studies
The company will track, investigate, and disclose unexpected model behavior — and released six initial reports alongside the framework.
OpenAI and AARP launch ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults
The free, in-person sessions will run in 10 U.S. cities, targeting practical AI skills for a demographic largely absent from ChatGPT's user base.
OpenAI unveils Sponsored Agents, its first paid advertising format
The ChatGPT maker moves into advertising with agent-based sponsorships and marketer tools tied to HubSpot and Shopify.
AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.
From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.
Hyperscalers need 2.7x productivity jump by 2030 to justify $1T AI spend
Wharton's Jessica Wachter says the buildout requires growth by 2030 that took a decade in the 1990s IT boom — or bankruptcy risk looms.
AI lab CEOs pivot to 'pacing' after years of racing to superintelligence
Amodei's 4,000-word essay drew same-day endorsements from Altman, Hassabis, Nadella, and Musk — reversing years of winner-take-all framing.
AI labs' 'pace the frontier' pact draws cartel accusations
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.
Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' essay draws Altman, Musk, Trump into AI slowdown debate
Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'
OpenAI buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for $300M
The acquisition, led by two former Apple Portrait Mode engineers, deepens OpenAI's hardware push after its $6.5B deal for Jony Ive's io.
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.
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