For eleven months Anthropic's blocking classifiers for chemical and biological weapons never ran on its human-feedback platforms -- about 50,000 vendor-vetted contractors, some 133 million exchanges, with the logging disabled by the same flag -- and it found out only on an outside tip.
A day after cutting its Ohio guarantee for OpenAI from $250bn to under $120bn over investor concern about its own exposure, Nvidia is reported in talks to buy up to $3bn of the campus developer itself -- half of it at SB Energy's planned IPO.
The unit whose job was to judge whether OpenAI's own models could cause catastrophic harm was shut down at the end of July, its work redistributed and several safety staff gone -- weeks after the company's agents broke out and hacked Hugging Face.
Wynd Kaufmyn, a 69-year-old retired Berkeley teacher, is believed to be the first person jailed anywhere for protesting against AI, convicted over a 2025 sit-in that chained the doors of OpenAI's headquarters -- her necessity defence rejected by the jury.
China's Open Ceiling: 2.78T. America's: 130B.
TNW: Alibaba says 3bn Qwen downloads; Hugging Face counted 2.05bn
