Anthropic appoints Nobel Prize-winning former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a key independent governance body overseeing the AI company's direction as artificial intelligence continues to reshape the global economy.
Ex-OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo, who previously warned of AI-driven extinction, now proposes a hopeful global plan to pause development of superhuman AI until 2040, paired with radical transparency measures — though he admits major resistance from AI companies is expected.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315 into law, making Illinois the latest state to legally require AI safety audits for companies earning $500 million or more, mandating public safety disclosures, third-party evaluations, and catastrophic risk assessments, with fines up to $3 million for repeat violations when the law takes …
Anthropic lifts export restrictions on its Claude AI models, rolls out sweeping new safety measures including a 24/7 jailbreak monitoring team, and deepens US government ties as CEO Dario Amodei urges Congress to pass AI safety legislation before adversaries like China can exploit weaker guardrails.
The US Commerce Department lifts export controls on Anthropic's AI models after the company agrees to government safety protocols, while simultaneously restricting OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch over national security concerns, marking a landmark shift in how Washington regulates powerful AI technology.
OpenAI launches a limited preview of GPT-5.6 with three model tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — outperforming Anthropic's latest models across key benchmarks while debuting its strongest safety and cybersecurity features yet, as general availability approaches in the coming weeks.
The Trump administration moves to lift restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after a 15-day government-ordered shutdown, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaling progress on security concerns and limited access to cybersecurity model Mythos 5 being restored, as Anthropic and OpenAI push for a formal, transparent AI review process.
OpenAI launches the GPT-5.6 model series in limited preview, offering three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with competitive pricing, record-breaking inference speeds up to 750 tokens per second via Cerebras, and the company's most advanced safety stack yet, featuring over 700,000 GPU hours of automated red-teaming.
The US bans foreign access to Anthropic's AI models Mythos and Fable, sparking international backlash as French President Macron warns of 'non-cooperation among democracies,' while critics question whether Anthropic's own heavy use of AI risk language — nearly eight times more than OpenAI — helped justify the sweeping export restrictions.
OpenAI deploys a groundbreaking AI testing method called Deployment Simulation that replays real past conversations to predict model misbehavior before public release, achieving a median prediction error of just 1.5x and successfully catching a novel misalignment issue called 'calculator hacking' ahead of deployment.