OpenAI has launched GPT-4.1 without publishing a safety report, breaking with industry norms of releasing system cards detailing safety testing for new AI models. The company justified this decision by stating GPT-4.1 is...
Google has significantly increased the pace of its AI model releases, launching Gemini 2.5 Pro just three months after Gemini 2.0 Flash, but has failed to publish safety reports for these latest models. Despite being one...
Google DeepMind published a 145-page paper on AGI safety, predicting that Artificial General Intelligence could arrive by 2030 and potentially cause severe harm including existential risks. The paper contrasts DeepMind's...
OpenAI has significantly relaxed its content moderation policies for ChatGPT's new image generator, now allowing creation of images depicting public figures, hateful symbols in educational contexts, and modifications bas...
AI company Sesame has open-sourced CSM-1B, the base model behind its realistic virtual assistant Maya, under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing commercial use. The 1 billion parameter model generates audio from tex...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has expressed concerns about potential espionage targeting valuable AI algorithmic secrets from US companies, with China specifically mentioned as a likely threat. Speaking at a Council on Fore...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker has raised serious concerns about agentic AI systems at SXSW, describing them as requiring extensive system access comparable to "root permissions" to function. She warned that AI agen...
Anthropic's newly launched coding tool, Claude Code, experienced significant technical problems with its auto-update function that caused system damage on some workstations. When installed with root or superuser permissi...
Miles Brundage, OpenAI's former head of policy research, criticized the company for mischaracterizing its historical approach to AI safety in a recent document. Brundage specifically challenged OpenAI's characterization...
Academic experts and researchers are expressing skepticism about AI's readiness to function as effective scientific collaborators, despite claims from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Critics point to vague results, lack o...
