Sam Altman
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Video. ‘Let workers have a say’: Protesters target OpenAI conference
Video. Dozens of activists protested outside OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco, calling on the company to end its contracts with the US military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanding greater regulation of AI.
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Florida attorney general asks judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without third-party approval — OpenAI says it already paused training its most capable models last week
Florida's motion uses OpenAI's own safety warnings as evidence
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A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control
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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
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OpenAI CEO announces new AI agent and avoids mention of security concerns at developer conference
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has introduced a new AI agent called Dot, described as “remarkably capable, always-on.”
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OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
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Anthropic lists ‘existential risks to humanity’ as one of its risk factors in IPO prospectus — 80 pages of risk factors dwarf business description as firm eyes $2 trillion debut
The company devoted nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to saying how bad things could go.
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OpenAI pulls new AI model release following widespread security worries
GPT-6.1 likely faces delays ahead of upcoming launch
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OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
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OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe
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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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Pope Leo XIV calls for additional international AI safety guardrails
The pontiff appeared to target US President Donald Trump who has routinely referred to concerns from AI leaders about the rapid pace of development of the technology as a ‘hoax’ stemming from his political opponents.
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OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns
The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.
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OpenAI delays latest model over security concerns, as industry faces new safety pressures
OpenAI says it is delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company’s effort to decelerate the pace of the technology’s advance
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‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites
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OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe
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OpenAI's custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rollout — firm says it will have its ‘hands full’ with Jalapeño for ‘a good long time’
OpenAI isn’t going up against Nvidia… at least not yet.
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Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week
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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
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Middle school kids are choosing AI friends over real ones
‘This is a pretty existential concern for this generation,’ one of the study’s authors says
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Iran says it ‘has no plans to negotiate with US’ despite Trump claims – US politics live
Trump had told Axios he expected talks to resume a day after he rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the strait of Hormuz
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Bill Gates warns AI kill switch is ‘not enough’ and says China isn’t greatest fear
Billionaire philanthropist said regulating AI could prove harder than Cold War nuclear treaty negotiations
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China and US announce AI safety channel after Xi’s Washington visit
Xi Jinping reportedly told his US counterpart that AI must be harnessed ‘for good’, despite Trump calling safety fears a hoax
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’
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Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled
As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways
OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a lack of control
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Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything MAGA didn’t need
While Trump is busy giving tours of his ballroom and dines with tech CEOs, Republicans now have to run in a midterm amid high gas prices and a backlash to AI, Eric Garcia writes
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OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure
OpenAI has disclosed its artificial intelligence models have interacted with U.S. government websites in unexpected ways
