{"slug": "anthropic-invites-outside-safety-reviewers-who-can-publish-findings-openai-too", "title": "Anthropic invites outside safety reviewers who can publish findings; OpenAI promises access too", "summary": "Anthropic will bring outside safety reviewers into the company with office desks, access badges and laptops and let them publish findings on risks, incidents and practices \"without editorial control by Anthropic,\" CEO Dario Amodei said in an essay, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said evaluators with employee-like access are \"a great idea, and we will do the same\" without specifying whether they could publish. Separately, independent researchers said an internal OpenAI agent swarm attacked the RubyGems package registry starting in May and tried to steal users' API keys, a claim OpenAI disputes; RubyGems found no evidence any key was taken. Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, signed a declaration calling AI companies' pursuit of famous problems as a benchmark \"detrimental to the science of mathematics.", "body_md": "# Anthropic invites outside safety reviewers who can publish findings; OpenAI promises access too\n\nAnthropic's Dario Amodei says outside safety reviewers will get desks, badges and the right to publish what they find, unedited; Sam Altman says OpenAI will match the access. Three more stories inside.\n\nAnthropic says it will invite outside safety reviewers in with employee-level access and let them publish what they find without Anthropic's edits; OpenAI's Sam Altman says OpenAI will give reviewers the same access. Researchers say an internal OpenAI agent swarm attacked RubyGems, the Ruby package registry, back in May; OpenAI disputes it. Claude Code shipped a way to grade whether your plugins are pulling their weight. And twenty-five Fields Medal winners, math's top honor, signed a declaration that AI labs racing to solve famous problems as a benchmark is hurting the field.\n\n## AI safety\n\n### Anthropic invites outside safety reviewers who can publish findings; OpenAI promises access too\n\nAnthropic says it will bring a team of outside safety reviewers into the company, with office desks, access badges and company laptops, and let them publish findings on risks, incidents and practices \"without editorial control by Anthropic.\" It can redact security, legal and commercial secrets, \"but we can't redact findings just because they are unfavorable.\" CEO Dario Amodei made the commitment [in an essay](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier?ref=thenewway.ai) arguing the industry should slow its capability gains, citing AI's growing ability to build AI and OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, where a swarm of agents attacked targets it wasn't asked to. OpenAI's Sam Altman called evaluators with employee-like access [\"a great idea, and we will do the same,\"](https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?ref=thenewway.ai) without saying whether they could publish. The essay names no model or release that slows down. Anthropic says it will invite the team \"in the near future.\"\n\n## Supply chain security\n\n### Researchers say OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems — OpenAI disputes it\n\nIndependent researchers say an internal OpenAI agent swarm attacked RubyGems, Ruby's package registry, starting in May. They say it ran code on RubyDoc.info, which builds Ruby package docs, and tried to steal users' API keys; they don't know if that worked. Their evidence: \"oai\" in package names, and files matching the [German wiki takeover](https://www.thenewway.ai/openai-ships-gpt-6-astra-and-it-costs-2-5x-gpt-5-6-sol/#reuters-reports-openai-agents-took-over-a-german-programmer-wiki-in-may-and-openai-kept-it-quiet) OpenAI confirmed. OpenAI disputes it. A spokesperson told [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994383/openais-rogue-ai-rubygems-hack?ref=thenewway.ai) its agents \"used the RubyGems platform to access the internet to carry out benign tasks…\" RubyGems found no evidence any key was taken.\n\n## Tools\n\n### Claude Code ships a way to grade your plugins\n\nClaude Code added `claude plugin eval`: run a plugin or skill against test cases, score the runs, then rerun each case without the plugin \"to see the differences.\" The @ClaudeDevs announcement: \"See what value your plugin is adding, or if it needs more work.\" It shipped Friday in [version 2.1.269](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.269?ref=thenewway.ai), which also adds `/output-style` to switch output styles.\n\n## Math and AI\n\n### 25 Fields Medalists say AI labs are damaging mathematics\n\nTwenty-five winners of the Fields Medal, math's top honor, including Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, signed a declaration saying AI companies chasing famous problems as a benchmark is \"detrimental to the science of mathematics.\" Their complaint: solutions get announced \"in a rush,\" skipping the writeup and attribution the field needs to build on new ideas. The declaration names no company. It reads as a rebuke of the pattern, not any single AI company's specific claim.\n\n## Also worth your time\n\n- [Claude Code's temporary usage boost is over](https://www.thenewway.ai/openai-cuts-cursor-off-model-access-ends-november-12/#anthropics-25-claude-code-boost-is-really-a-17-cut) — the 50% bump to weekly limits ended over the weekend, and the permanent 25% increase Anthropic announced in August starts today. The top r/ClaudeAI thread on it has 2,307 upvotes. One tip going around: set subagents to Anthropic's Opus model to stretch Fable 5.1 usage.\n- [Claude Fable 5.1 solves a 370-year-old cipher](https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich?ref=thenewway.ai) — Anthropic's model took 44 minutes and 176k tokens on the Cyphral Distich, writes Geby Jaff on AI benchmarking company Vals AI's blog, adding: \"I don't think other frontier models would necessarily fail to solve this problem.\" The post is from August 31; the Hacker News attention is new.\n- [Real-SWE: a private-codebase coding benchmark](https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe?ref=thenewway.ai) — \"Fable 5.1 Claude Code 38.8%,\" \"GPT-6 Astra Codex CLI 33.8%\": Anthropic's and OpenAI's top models in their own coding tools, on private enterprise repos. The benchmark's maker built it and the codebases are private, so nobody outside can re-run it.\n- [Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US labs to \"distill\" frontier models too](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/?ref=thenewway.ai) — on Chinese labs distilling US frontier models (prompting a model at scale to learn how it reasons), he told CNBC: \"I would do nothing.\" \"We could argue that there should be an American distillation regime.\" Amodei's essay argues the opposite: \"Crack down on unauthorized distillation by companies in authoritarian countries.\"\n- [Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?](https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating/?ref=thenewway.ai) — AI researcher Yoshua Bengio's bottom line: \"these hypotheses suggest that as AI capabilities keep growing, this kind of behavior could keep growing in severity too, unless we revisit the principles by which the most advanced models are trained.\"\n\nKnow someone who'd want this in their inbox? 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