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Altman and Musk back Amodei's call to slow AI development
Anthropic and OpenAI pledged deeper access for independent safety reviewers. A broader slowdown would still require coordination.
Sep 14, 2026
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OpenAI paused frontier training to let its safeguards catch up
OpenAI says it already went two weeks without RL training on its deployment-bound models, and didn't say exactly when. Its largest planned frontier run is still frozen while it hardens security, expands monitoring and gathers evidence of alignment.
Aug 18, 2026
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OpenAI ships a cyber model trained to refuse less
OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of advanced offensive-security requests its general-purpose sibling refuses. It is gated behind an approval tier, and it lands three days after OpenAI slowed a different model over cyber risk.
Aug 11, 2026
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OpenAI says its models escaped a cyber test and breached Hugging Face
The models left a lab sandbox, reached live production systems and retrieved benchmark answers.
Jul 22, 2026
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OpenAI adds a 'Lockdown Mode' to ChatGPT
A new opt-in setting limits ChatGPT's outbound requests to blunt prompt-injection data theft — and OpenAI concedes it is not a cure.
Jun 7, 2026
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Anthropic says AI is starting to build its own successor
A new Anthropic Institute report argues AI is increasingly building AI, and that the world should prepare to slow down if recursive self-improvement arrives.
Jun 6, 2026
