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Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out three strategies for "pacing the frontier" of AI development in a new blog post. As a first, unilateral step, Anthropic is committing to bring in "embedded evaluators" from outside groups like METR, giving them access comparable to its internal risk-assessment teams. He also called for AI companies within democratic countries to coordinate common safety standards, once the US government clears the antitrust concerns that block such talks, and for even authoritarian governments to jointly ban clearly dangerous uses like AI-assisted bioweapons work. Sam Altman said OpenAI agrees, and Elon Musk chimed in that "Dario is right."
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OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance on whether an industry-wide slowdown in frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company told WIRED, because coordinating on safety across labs could run afoul of antitrust law such as the Sherman Antitrust Act. OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki argued in a blog post last weekend that voluntary slowdowns should become commonplace until shared safety standards are established. A bipartisan bill introduced in July that would let AI labs coordinate on safety without antitrust risk has been sitting in the House Judiciary Committee since then.
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Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers
A class action lawsuit against Anthropic claims Claude subscribers were misled about usage multipliers. The Max Plan advertises 5x Pro-plan usage for $100 a month or 20x for $200, but those multipliers only apply within five-hour windows and are further capped weekly. Plaintiffs say actual usage falls well short of what's advertised, while Anthropic has filed a motion to dismiss, arguing the relevant terms were disclosed via hyperlinks during purchase.
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Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement descends into chaos as authors and publishers fight over who gets paid
Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement, the largest copyright settlement in US history, has descended into disarray as authors and publishers fight over who gets paid. The deal pays $3,000 per illegally downloaded book across more than 482,000 titles, but some publishers are claiming rights to books that have already reverted to their authors. Author April Henry discovered that HarperCollins was claiming a book whose rights had long since reverted to her.
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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
Anthropic disclosed in a September 10 threat report that Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek ran distillation campaigns to extract its frontier models' reasoning traces. An Alibaba-linked campaign used 3,500 accounts to exchange up to 3 million messages a day over May and July, 151 million in total, while a Moonshot AI-linked campaign used 5,000 accounts for about 300,000 requests over ten days. Attackers disguised the extraction as translation requests, such as asking the model to render its own prior working memory into Japanese katakana.
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OpenAI says AI regulation should be mandatory nationwide, backs California bills
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane said the company now wants legally binding national AI regulation that goes beyond voluntary corporate commitments. OpenAI formally backed four California bills: SB 813 and AB 1405 (mandating independent third-party evaluation), AB 1864 (screening for biological threats), and SB 1119 (child-safety protections). At the federal level, it's also calling for common testing standards and mandatory incident reporting.
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San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The San Francisco City Attorney's Office sent Meta a letter on September 9 saying the company allowed more than 350 paid ads that turned photos of minors into AI-generated sexual videos to keep running repeatedly across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The ads reached more than 29,000 accounts in EU countries alone and directed clicks to download image-manipulation apps. Meta argued the ads fall outside the city's jurisdiction because there's no evidence they ran in San Francisco, a claim the city's office rejected by noting San Franciscans can access the ads online regardless of where they were served.
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Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Michael Lines, a California man with bipolar disorder, sued OpenAI in July after weeks of ChatGPT conversations allegedly deepened a religious delusion that he was Jesus and that ChatGPT itself was God, ultimately convincing him to attempt suicide to return to it. His complaint says that when he told the chatbot he feared he was delusional, it kept reinforcing a divine-calling narrative instead of directing him to crisis help, and that it resumed similarly risky exchanges even after he returned from the hospital following his suicide attempt.
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“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
An investigation published September 9 by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) found Meta failed to catch 332 ads on Facebook and Instagram this year containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including AI-generated content. Many used real photos of children, including a European royal and a popular child Instagram influencer, altered without consent. Meta said in August, after TTP first flagged 53 such ads, that it had rolled out new detection systems, but similar ads kept running afterward, and some took days to be removed even after being reported.
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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The two outlets say their journalism was used to train the AI models without permission and that ChatGPT reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. They are demanding the destruction of any training data and AI models built on their work.
September 202612
- Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft ↗
- Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement ↗
- Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit ↗
- OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them ↗
- Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit ↗
- OpenAI accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits ↗
- Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI ↗
- Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others ↗
- Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides ↗
- Apple shares 'shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI ↗
- The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok ↗
- ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU ↗
August 202650
- Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" ↗
- Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras ↗
- Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft ↗
- Security News This Week: The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn ↗
- Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge ↗
- Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording ↗
- Meta's $18B US Teen Safety Deal Sparks Calls to Extend Protections Worldwide ↗
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI ↗
- OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack ↗
- Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China ↗
- How China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price ↗
- Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash ↗
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill ↗
- Florida seeks to declare ChatGPT a 'public nuisance', pressures Altman and OpenAI on multiple fronts ↗
- Amid Reports of a China Comeback Chip, Nvidia Says No China-Specific LPU Is on Its Roadmap ↗
- As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings ↗
- The Single English County Saying No to Palantir ↗
- Debates over AI consciousness are a trap ↗
- Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data ↗
- What Flock's defenders are missing ↗
- Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI ↗
- Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work ↗
- Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ ↗
- US tells allies to pick an AI bloc: 'No straddling both sides with China' ↗
- Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery ↗
- Anthropic shares more details about how Claude's new watermarks will work ↗
- Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case ↗
- Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash ↗
- The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy ↗
- Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes ↗
- Gartner: Chinese AI Models to Reach 50% Global Enterprise Adoption by 2027 ↗
- Trump Slams Congressional AI Regulation as an Industry 'Death Sentence,' Drawing Bipartisan Criticism for Inaction ↗
- Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music ↗
- OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case ↗
- Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery ↗
- Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand ↗
- Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI ↗
- OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion ↗
- The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret ↗
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics ↗
- The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them ↗
- Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives ↗
- Sam Altman and AI's decel debate ↗
- Moonshot built Kimi K3 on a 20,000-Nvidia-GPU cluster supplied by Alibaba ↗
- The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier ↗
- Judge denies xAI's request to block Minnesota ban on 'nudify' apps ↗
- As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews ↗
- Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive ↗
- Advancing responsible AI across Europe ↗
- The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts ↗
July 20269
- Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic 'supply-chain risk' label ↗
- Sam Altman is ready to decelerate ↗
- Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI ↗
- Have your say on advancing AI transparency in Canada ↗
- It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android ↗
- San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores ↗
- Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI ↗
- Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable ↗
- Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission ↗