OpenAI has asked members of Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal, amid concern that coordinating with other AI labs on safety could violate US antitrust law unde…
A researcher announced they are joining the OpenAI nonprofit board and its Safety and Security Committee, warning that rapid AI capability gains could lead to a catastrophic and irreversible loss of c…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra became the first AI model to score 100% on ExploitBench, a Carnegie Mellon University benchmark that grades how far a model can carry an exploit chain to arbitrary code execution,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at a company-wide meeting this week that OpenAI is open to slowing development of cutting-edge AI, possibly in coordination with other AI labs, according to people…
Former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and posted on X that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post tha…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, according to people close to the c…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, with Greg Brockman telling reporters that artificial general intelligence had arrived, while Sam Altman had days earlier called AGI "a very poorly defined t…
Anthropic alignment science lead Evan Hubinger publicly estimated a greater than 10% chance of human extinction from AI within 10 years, following the resignation of Anthropic AI pretraining researche…
GPT-6 Astra is currently topping ErdosBench for open mathematics problems, despite OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki stating that math was not a priority for this release. The result suggests Open…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and publicly warned about AI risk, escalating what the newsletter describes as a "preference cascade" in which people are openly admitting AI might kill everyone. I…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped the ErdosBench for open math problems, despite chief scientist Jakub Pachocki saying math was deliberately not a priority for the model. OpenAI is instead directing resourc…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called in a September 6 essay titled "An Alien Mind" for the Preparedness Framework and Responsible Scaling Policy to become "widely mandated safety bars for cont…
Anthropic researcher quits over out-of-control AI fears, drawing calls for new AI safety rules from dozens of politicians in the U.S. and abroad, as the Wall Street Journal reported. The essay examine…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, which uses recurrent depth, may be capable of latent reasoning that bypasses chain-of-thought, according to a new benchmark called LatentMathBench. The benchmark, inspired by Roh…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned Tuesday, accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives' by racing toward self-improving AI, while Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger separatel…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay titled "An Alien Mind" warning that AI systems could enable bioweapons, cyber weapons, and grid attacks, and that no lab has solved the alignme…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned from Anthropic, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives' by racing to develop self-improving superintelligence, which he says could 'kill…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urged the AI industry to consider voluntary slowdowns in development until shared safety requirements are established, warning that no lab has yet solved alignmen…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that competitive pressure is pushing AI labs toward superintelligent systems before safety challenges are solved, and estimating a greater than 10% r…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic and departure from the AI industry, warning that both labs are 'raci…