Why OpenAI And Anthropic Are Pumping The Breaks
OpenAI and Anthropic responded to mass extinction concerns, according to a Prof G Pod discussion between host Ed Elson and Baseten Co-Head of Model Training Charlie O'Neill, who also addressed where A…
OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
OpenAI and Anthropic responded to mass extinction concerns, according to a Prof G Pod discussion between host Ed Elson and Baseten Co-Head of Model Training Charlie O'Neill, who also addressed where A…
China is rapidly closing the AI technology gap with the United States, with Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence reporting that China appears to be erasing the U.S. lead thi…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher, resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8 after three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, posting on X that neither company is acting respons…
President Donald Trump's opposition to AI regulation is undercutting calls from Anthropic and OpenAI for mandatory safety checks, CNBC reported. The two AI companies have pushed for the checks as fear…
Harvard Kennedy School fellow Shlomit Wagman argues the first workable global AI safety pact should be built for a world without trust, because the U.S. and China are unlikely to agree on broad shared…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell that the company will not go public in 2026, pushing its IPO window to 2027, citing safety concerns rather than market conditions. "I…
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said the latest advances in frontier AI are an "OMG moment" for cyber crime and that countries need to "arm ourselves," speaking at the annual City of London Pol…
China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin warned in an article published Sunday in the state-run magazine China Cyberspace that artificial intelligence endangers national security and could potent…
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's September essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" calls for pacing AI capability advances so safety work can keep up, a position backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and other indust…
European Union government officials will meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss setting global rules to counter threats from new AI models, with the European Commission providing updates on EU and in…
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are discussing creating an industry-wide AI safety body to set common standards for frontier AI systems, according to a report by The Information. The talks follow Anthro…
Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris called for stronger oversight and a slowdown in artificial intelligence development, following a proposal by Anthropic CEO Da…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, resigned from Anthropic after roughly three years of pretraining AI models, warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and "…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk called over the weekend for a pause in AI development, warning the technology could soon improve on its own and slip beyond huma…
The UK government signalled it may introduce binding AI regulation, saying existing laws covering data protection, competition, product safety and online safety "may no longer be sufficient" as models…
More than 1,300 AI engineers at frontier AI companies signed the "Pacing the Frontier" letter calling for a slowdown in development until safety can catch up, following postmortems of the Hugging Face…
OpenAI's advertising efforts in ChatGPT are working and address Amazon's biggest problem with chatbots, according to Stratechery's analysis, while Walmart has begun accepting Apple Pay. The Stratecher…
LM-Kit One launched as a private AI engine that runs models, agents, RAG, search and document intelligence on user-controlled infrastructure, offering OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama and MCP-compatible endp…
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt said at the third annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner in San Francisco on Monday that U.S. law should be shutting down today's AI companies until they prove their products are s…
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," w…