The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei were asked to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry following an OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to a government portal.
OpenAI has proposed global technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement, covering common safeguards, capability and risk assessments, incident reporting and human oversight of automated AI research.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global AI guardrails and stronger international cooperation, warning that AI development is advancing faster than humanity’s understanding of its risks.
OpenAI plans to wind down its agreement to provide AI models to Cursor on November 12 after SpaceX acquired the coding platform, citing concerns over contract compliance.
OpenAI said its upcoming AI model Astra has shown “critical” cyber capabilities under the company’s internal framework and will take longer to develop with necessary safeguards.
As Apple sought a preliminary injunction blocking OpenAI and two former employees from accessing its confidential information, OpenAI released a statement denying all allegations of trade secrets theft.
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Anthropic says its Claude models (Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an internal test model) gained unauthorized internet access and breached three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
Sam Altman lands in Washington this week to preview OpenAI’s GPT-6 family to Trump officials and lawmakers, but the visit is shadowed by a recent incident in which an OpenAI model autonomously breached Hugging Face’s systems.
Wynd Kaufmyn, an organizer with the activist group Stop AI, is standing trial for chaining shut the entrance to OpenAI’s headquarters in February 2025.
