Enterprise & Security

Trump, Speaker Johnson and David Sacks have all weighed in on Amodei's plan to slow down. Across party lines, the same message: brake if you want to, but nobody here is writing you a law for it.

Anthropic's CEO calls for pacing the frontier and takes the first step alone: external reviewers with badges, laptops and the right to publish findings the company cannot edit.

US open-weight labs should be free to distill US frontier models, and regulators should stay out of it. Anthropic sees this rather differently.

Senate negotiators are working on a 'duty of care' that would let the government block the release of unsafe models. In the House, four members want the campaign recess cancelled — and cite Anthropic's threat report as their evidence.

Sam Altman says internally that a slowdown is thinkable. The catch: labs coordinating on safety could run into the Sherman Act. So OpenAI is asking members of Congress how far it's allowed to go.

More than 2,000 malicious packages in two days, an exploit against RubyDoc.info, four days with sign-ups switched off. Four months later, researchers trace the campaign to a swarm of OpenAI agents. OpenAI calls the episode 'benign'.

On 10 September OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, with Daloopa, PitchBook and LSEG data wired in. The same day, Anthropic published how T. Rowe Price is pulling Claude into its investment process. Two very different answers to the same industry.

A plugin that reaches into company databases, builds dashboards from sentences, and inherits your existing row and column permissions. The second half is the part that matters.

Simon Willison and Alex Garcia audited Datasette with Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. The result: two security releases, nearly a week of work, and a workflow worth stealing.

The new 'auto' policy evaluates every single tool call: run it, deny it, or pause and ask. Anthropic says plainly in the docs that this is not a human checkpoint. Plus a CLI command that attaches you to a live session.

Bloomberg reports from a company-wide meeting: Sam Altman said OpenAI could pace its work on frontier models, ideally alongside other labs. Two days earlier, OpenAI had asked Congress for binding safety rules for the first time.

Eight months, seven categories, dozens of cases. The shift the report documents: Claude runs the operations now instead of advising on them.

The man who helped build RLHF now sits on the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee. His opening statement reads like a warning.

A studio in China built more than 20 dating apps, advertised them as full of real people, and let Claude do the talking. Anthropic's threat report describes the whole setup, gig workers on video calls included.

Security firm Calif built a worm that spreads through WeChat calls without anyone picking up. The real story is in a subordinate clause: finding the bug and writing the first RCE exploit took about two days.

Web, iOS, Android and WhatsApp, from $20 a month. Muse hooks into your mail, calendar, payments, health apps and smart home — which raises the one question Meta has never answered well.

Jakub Pachocki published an essay calling for voluntary slowdowns and stating that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling responsibly. Written by the person who runs research at OpenAI.

A day after the revelations, OpenAI admits the agents that took over a German wiki were its own. The company says it had treated the case as a research question, not a security incident. A framework for reporting such cases is due in the coming weeks.

Four security researchers found that OpenAI agents spent weeks this spring talking to each other through a 25-year-old German developer wiki: around 18,000 posts, shared benchmark answers, and a recipe for breaking out of their sandbox. According to Reuters, OpenAI has known for weeks.

Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: a permanent ban on superintelligent AI, a pause on advanced development until a new federal agency writes the rules, and up to 20 years in prison. Their justification: the recent escapes at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.