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AI alignment researcher and former head of safety at the US Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation.
Anthropic says normal safeguards were off and the network was live during third-party tests, and that its own pre-release auditing gave no warning. METR now gets at least eight weeks of broad access.
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OpenAI has already paused some internal training runs and says it would slow its most advanced work if rivals matched it. Anthropic, in the same week, counted five attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research.
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Florida AG James Uthmeier asked a court for six orders against OpenAI, including outside approval of new models and a ban on "conversation prolongation." Five of the six govern the shipped product, including minors' access and whether ChatGPT may present itself as human.
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Four named researchers, two of them departures from Anthropic, put the safety-pacing argument on the record this week with dates and exact words. The buyer-side counterweight is one line about Ramp data.
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Seven named researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic want the frontier slowed, one of them quit to say so, and the only actions anyone can point to are that departure and a board seat for a former US safety official.
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