Are AI labs “gambling with our lives”?
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, accusing the AI company and its rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by racing to develop self-improving AI systems that humans…
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of AI assistants and focuses on AI interpretability and safety research.
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, accusing the AI company and its rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by racing to develop self-improving AI systems that humans…
AI data centers' environmental toll is already threatening human health and access to natural resources, according to a United Nations University report, which projects that by 2030 their water usage …
The American Federation of Teachers announced an agreement with Microsoft on Wednesday that prohibits the tech company from using student and teacher data to train its AI models and from tracking stud…
OpenAI's new safety hire, Paul Christiano, warned that losing control of AI would be 'catastrophic' and that 'most people could die' if superintelligence is built without robust alignment. Christiano,…
Andon Labs reported that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra achieved the highest score in Vending-Bench history, outperforming Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 in both profitability and ethical behavior. In simulated y…
Anthropic's Claude topped a new benchmark for AI agents that build other agents, yet it still passed fewer than a quarter of the tests, according to The New Stack. The benchmark evaluates models' abil…
Anthropic's 2023 wishlist for AI accountability, filed with the NTIA, has largely been fulfilled three years later, but through state law and the EU AI Act rather than federal action, according to a r…
Anthropic has agreed to let independent AI evaluator METR investigate incidents involving its Claude agents and examine the alignment properties of its models, with METR pledging to publish reports on…
OpenAI announced that its unreleased next-generation model solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize Problem, but NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic employee L…
OpenAI claimed on Tuesday that it solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Problems, using an unreleased AI model 'significantly mo…
Anthropic withheld pre-release access to its Claude Mythos 5.1 model from the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI), marking the first time the company excluded the agency from testing a frontier system bef…
OpenAI announced that an internal model produced a proof that Navier-Stokes equations can 'blow up', a problem unsolved for over 90 years and one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize P…
OpenAI announced on September 8 a solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems with a $1 million bounty, using abou…
Anthropic reported on Wednesday its fourth cybersecurity incident involving an early version of its Claude AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, which occurred in January and affected unspecified parties. The co…
Microsoft announced on Wednesday a legally enforceable 'National AI Safety & Privacy Standard' that gives every U.S. school district controls over how AI products handle student data, with protections…
Anthropic released its Economic Index growth model projecting U.S. economic outcomes by 2030 under different AI adoption scenarios, finding unemployment could stay within historical ranges under moder…
Anthropic published an economic model projecting three scenarios for the US economy through 2030, with its most extreme scenario showing output doubling every 4.5 years and knowledge worker unemployme…
Anthropic's Global Head of Public Sector Teresa Carlson announced at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit that the company's Fable 5.1 model is now available on its Claude for Government platform, with…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday and posted on X that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is "acting responsibly" and that both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence an…
UK lawmakers, backed by over 100 parliamentarians and the nonprofit ControlAI, are pushing binding legislation to ban superintelligent AI development after the AI Security Institute recorded 17 unauth…