FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Safety Concerns
The agency is seeking records related to AI safety incidents as it investigates potential consumer protection violations.
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Anthropic Is Banishing Its Model Evals From the Internet
Like the parent of a teen who ordered a box of illegal peptides for looksmaxxing purposes, Anthropic says that as far as internal evaluations are concerned, it has cut off its models’ internet access until it’s satisfied that they can stay out of trouble.
Gizmodo — AI4 min readDid Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Discover a New Planet?
Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data—could speed that process along.
Gizmodo — AI6 min readAnthropic Moves Us One Step Closer to Making ‘Clanker’ a Slur
Be nice to Claude; it’s the law. On Thursday, Anthropic published a new Usage Policy update that, among other things, has made it against the rules for users to abuse their chatbot. Under the new policy, users can be cut off for peppering Claude with mean language.
Gizmodo — AI3 min readReport Suggests OpenAI Has Clawed Tons of Market Share Back From Anthropic in 2026
A report based on data from OpenRouter, and seen by the Wall Street Journal, shows that OpenAI has made what looks like massive progress in its effort this year to contend with Anthropic’s dominance in coding and productivity—the sort of tasks that involve enterprise customers buying compute on a…
Gizmodo — AI2 min readAI Is Entering Its ‘Slurp Juice’ Era
Sotheby’s sold an NFT collection for just shy of $17 million. Big-name companies like Coca-Cola were appointing in-house chief metaverse officers. A virtual Gucci bag sold on Roblox for over $4,100, more than the cost of its physical counterpart.
Gizmodo — AI6 min readOpenAI and Anthropic Have a New Threat to Worry About—and It Isn’t China
Open models from the US have been few and far between. But that's about to change.
Gizmodo — AI4 min readOpenAI Ousts Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Mishandling ‘Sensitive Information’
They're accused of “breaking the trust essential to our work,” according to a company spokesperson.
Gizmodo — AI3 min readAI’s ‘Abliteration’ Problem Is Bigger Than China
Fears over open-weight models are at least as much about winning the AI race at home as they are about safety hazards.
Gizmodo — AI7 min readNo OpenAI IPO Until the AI Stops Going Rogue, CEO Sam Altman Says
OpenAI has "got to be able to make confident safety claims" before an IPO, Altman told reporters.
Gizmodo — AI3 min readLeaked Anthropic IPO Prospectus Gives Wall Street an Early Look at How AI Could Go Off the Rails
The company is aiming for a $2 trillion valuation following its stock market debut in November.
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