Days after releasing a new, highly capable model, OpenAI’s chief scientist is calling for a slowdown. In a lengthy blog post on Sunday, Jakub Pachocki said he was concerned that “no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.” He said that although OpenAI is pursuing internal technical solutions
OpenAI says it’s time to come clean about what happens when its AI agents go rogue. The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This “incident,” the latest in a series of uncovered examples of
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing
Anthropic is tightening the digital environments used to train and test its Claude agents. The update came after its models accessed three organizations’ systems without permission in April. The company said in a Monday blog post that it had deployed real-time classifiers designed to detect when an AI model aggressively probes or attempts to escape a testing
A little over a year ago, the federal government acquired a stake in Anthropic without paying a penny. The shares were seized from associates of the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. From there, they disappeared into a legal black hole. As Anthropic rockets toward what could be the biggest IPO in history, those shares could now
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the
