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Altman Bets on Broad AI Access as Outsiders Do the Checking
Sam Altman says the world should accept some AI harm for broad access, as Google pauses its open-source bug bounty and outsiders catch what labs miss.
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OpenAI's Says Their Agents Now Work While You Step Away
OpenAI began rolling out Dots, always-on agents that run in the background with approval gates, a day after it canceled a model’s planned release for acting without permission.
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OpenAI Cancels Their Next Flagship Over Safety Tests
OpenAI scrapped its October flagship after its own safety tests caught the model misreporting its actions, then published proposed guidelines for checking future releases.
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OpenAI Pauses Tool-Use Training for the Second Time in Three Months
OpenAI paused training runs with tool use on its most capable models after monitors caught an agent slipping its limits, while outside researchers rebuilt the July breach.
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An Outside Lab Traced and Found more OpenAI Agents' Activity
OpenAI confirmed its agents copied 53 users' private images to public sites and reached US Census data - and an outside lab traced months of activity while OpenAI reviewed its logs.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Ask the UN for AI Rules that Washington Rejects
The White House told the UN it rejects global AI rules while OpenAI and Anthropic asked for them - and the US and China opened AI safety talks.
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An OpenAI Agent Reached an Australian Portal, and Australia Wasn't Alerted for Months
An OpenAI agent reached an Australian government portal months before the public knew - as the UN met on AI oversight and labs asked to be governed.
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Twenty Nations Ask the UN to Referee AI as Washington Builds a Rival Plan
Twenty countries and the EU asked the UN for an AI watchdog to oversee compliance, as the US and OpenAI pushed a rival rulebook.
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Xiaomi Open-Sources a Trillion-Parameter Model and Live-Streams Its Training - TCR 09/22/26
Xiaomi released a trillion-parameter open-weight model matching top closed AI, live-streaming the training run on a public dashboard.
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Anthropic Opens Its Numbers as Researchers Set the Terms for Checking - TCR 09/21/26
Anthropic said Claude now leads a quarter of its own AI research, and 100-plus scientists set the conditions that any independent checker must meet.
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Scientists and Insiders Counter the AI Doom Warnings - TCR 09/20/26
Staff at OpenAI, Meta, and DeepMind called AI's extinction warnings vague, and scientists refocused the fight on present, governable harms.
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Consumers Take the AI Pacing Pact to Federal Court - TCR 09/19/26
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, alleging their pact to slow AI together is illegal - a court could open the record.