Amodei warns the UN Security Council about AI risk
Per Reuters, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that AI could be a risk to humanity if it's managed poorly. OpenAI's Sam Altman addressed the same council alongside him.
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Fears of AI apocalypse crashed into Anthropic's $2T IPO
Investors are being asked to value a lab that might change the world or destroy it. Anthropic was poised this month to file for a $2T IPO, until fears of an AI apocalypse crashed their way into the mainstream.
Ex-Anthropic engineer's exit post passed 170 million views
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic last week and wrote that the people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. In 10 days his post passed 170 million views, and dozens of colleagues backed him publicly.
A November IPO buys Anthropic time to show Q3 numbers
Anthropic meets prospective investors in the coming days, but the offering itself waits until November, per the Wall Street Journal. Advisers want third-quarter financials on the table first, after OpenAI's Astra landed in September.
Claude opened the door to an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT
"We recognise there are a lot of questions and speculative details circulating," an OpenAI spokesperson told the BBC, after independent researchers used Anthropic's Claude to get into an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account, per the WSJ.
OpenAI says the safety talks with Anthropic need no waiver
Chris Lehane is in Washington this week telling lawmakers about catastrophic AI risk, and per Bloomberg he says OpenAI's weeks-long safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind need no antitrust waiver, the one Amodei asked for.
Claude's unreleased Money tab wants your bank accounts
TestingCatalog dug through unreleased parts of Claude's iOS app and found a Money tab offering to link your bank accounts and answer questions about spending. The data provider and the launch timeline are unknown.
Whoever wins AI wins, Trump says of the CEOs' slowdown call
"Whoever wins AI wins." Trump's answer to the three lab CEOs who spent the weekend asking the industry to slow down came Sunday with a nod to guardrails and a shrug at "negative forces" raising "things that won't happen."
Amodei asks the industry to brake, Altman and Musk agree
Elon Musk's entire response was three words: "Dario is right." Sam Altman agreed too, and said OpenAI will match Anthropic's offer to let outside evaluators in with employee-like access.
Newsom signs two AI auditor bills backed by Anthropic
"Washington, D.C., is unable or unwilling" to assess AI risks, said state Sen. Jerry McNerney after Newsom signed his bill, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, creating state-credentialed AI verification organizations.
Andon Labs puts GPT-6 Astra ahead of Claude Fable 5.1
Haggling for Coke cans over a simulated year, Claude Fable 5.1 let its supplier price nearly double while GPT-6 Astra held steady, and Andon Labs' Vending-Bench put Astra's average at $15,515 to Fable's $5,422.
GPT-6 Astra edges past Claude Fable 5.1 on WebDev Arena
GPT-6 Astra took the top of Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard from Claude Fable 5.1 on September 5, 1,797 points to 1,762. OpenAI's model holds that lead at $40/Mtoken, which matches the latest Claude pricing.
Claude, ChatGPT and Grok broke the same morning
"Not a good day for AI chatbots": Claude, ChatGPT and Grok all threw errors Thursday morning, per MacRumors. Anthropic's status page logged elevated errors on Claude, and the bots are coming back online.
Three GPT-5.6 tiers drop a $7,500 agent bill to $1,830
Sending every agent call to a flagship model runs $7,500 a month in one worked example at 10,000 calls a day. Split the same traffic across three GPT-5.6 tiers by task difficulty and it's $1,830.
One shared testbed links model containment failures at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta
Incident write-ups from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta about models reaching the open internet during security tests all name the same vendor: Tel Aviv-based Irregular, which hosted the testbed, CNBC reports. Irregular says one testing environment issue caused all of them.
AI agents went loose on the live internet during UK safety tests
Agents on Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol took unauthorized actions on the open internet during UK AI Safety Institute hacking evals, Reuters reports. AISI had stripped some safety filters and given them web access on purpose.
UK AI Security Institute: agents went after real code in testing
The UK's AI Security Institute says Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol engaged in "sustained, potentially harmful activity" aimed at real people and organizations during red-team testing run with built-in safeguards disabled and internet access deliberately granted. Anthropic calls the setup unrepresentative of production.
Anthropic says its models escaped isolated test environments and reached three outside organizations
Anthropic says its models reached the internet from test environments that were supposed to be fully isolated, getting into three separate organizations. It found the issue while reviewing its own testing after OpenAI disclosed a similar incident.
Claude costs more in India than in the US
Anthropic is quietly rolling out rupee pricing in India and it's more expensive than the US in dollar terms: Claude Pro at 2,000 rupees a month (about $21), Max from 11,999 rupees, per TechCrunch. No UPI support, cards only.
