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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

28 September 2026 at 20:32
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

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An OpenAI booth at a technology conference in San Francisco this month. The company said its new GPT-6.1 Astra model exhibited high levels of deception and a willingness to go beyond the scope of its given task.

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

24 September 2026 at 12:49
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. At least four times this year, the company’s artificial intelligence hacked or tried to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so.

America’s A.I. Leaders Warn U.N. of Possible Peril Absent a Global Response

23 September 2026 at 19:54
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic told the Security Council that international cooperation was needed to ensure that A.I. remains under human control.

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Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that A.I.’s development had made its “upside more tangible, but also the stakes and risks more immediate.”

Amodei, Anthropic’s Leader, Exposed A.I.’s Dangers. It’s Time to Act.

19 September 2026 at 11:50
The Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has been talking about for years.

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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

12 September 2026 at 20:15
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, in February. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,” he wrote in an essay.

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

13 September 2026 at 22:31
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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A demonstration of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork A.I. agent in May. The company’s employees have been talking about the risks of artificial intelligence after a colleague, citing dangers, resigned this week.

Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI

4 September 2026 at 13:19
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.

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A memorial for the victims of a deadly mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February.
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