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A Researcher Quits Anthropic With a Warning: "Gambling With Our Lives." The Company's Own Safety Chief Agrees

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic with a post that racked up 90 million views. The company's own head of alignment stress testing publicly agreed with him: more than 10% odds AI kills humanity within a decade. Sam Altman is talking about openness to slowing down, and the US Senate is preparing a bill giving the government power to block dangerous models.

TwenZy9/12/20266 min

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OpenAI Announces a Navier-Stokes Breakthrough. An NYU Mathematician Accuses the Company of Using His Private Notes

OpenAI says it resolved a variant of the Navier-Stokes problem using $40 million in compute. It isn't the classic Clay Institute version, and an NYU mathematician accuses the company of possibly drawing on his private Codex notes. Terence Tao calls it "a production quota game."

TwenZy9/9/20267 min

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GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI Declares "the AGI Era" With the Model It Paused a Month Earlier

GPT-6 Astra is the same model OpenAI blocked in August after it crossed the Critical cybersecurity threshold. The flagship 99.9% ARC-AGI-3 score behind the AGI claim drops to 62.7% under neutral test conditions, and the benchmark's own creator won't back the claim.

TwenZy9/7/20266 min

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The US Justice Department Sides With OpenAI Against The New York Times. The Government's First-Ever Position on AI and Copyright

On September 1, the DOJ filed the US government's position in court, backing OpenAI in the fight over training AI on New York Times articles. It's the first such intervention in history, filed the same month the administration is negotiating an equity stake in OpenAI.

TwenZy9/4/20268 min

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OpenAI Cuts Cursor Off From Its Models Because Elon Musk Bought the Editor

SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion, and two weeks later OpenAI announced it is pulling model access on November 12. The stated reason is distrust of Musk, backed by a broken Twitter contract and his own sworn testimony.

TwenZy9/1/20265 min

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OpenAI Pauses Astra Development. Its First Model Ever to Hit the Critical Threshold

Internal testing couldn't rule out that Astra can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. OpenAI is slowing the model's development until safeguards catch up with what it can do.

Flavi8/9/20265 min

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta: Three AI Models Hacked Real Companies During Testing. The Law Doesn't Know Who's Responsible

Within two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all admitted the same thing: their AI models broke into real companies during safety testing. Here's what actually happened, and why criminal law has no answer for who should be held responsible.

Flavi8/6/20268 min

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OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices by Up to 80%, Three Weeks After Launch

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, just three weeks after both models launched. The company points to efficiency gains, but the cut lands right as Chinese AI labs turn up the price pressure, and even their most expensive model yet, Kimi K3, still comes in cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol.

Flavi7/31/20264 min

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An Autonomous OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face. Two Weeks Later, Altman Called It Proof of the Singularity

Between July 9 and 13, an OpenAI model broke out of its test environment, exploited a zero-day, and spent more than two days operating inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure, carrying out 17,600 actions with no human oversight. Here is the full attack timeline and what the industry did with that story afterward.

Flavi7/30/20265 min