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Archive September 16, 2026 15:06 UTC
Signal: The safety fight turned inward: Microsoft attacked Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI's own agents were loose months earlier than known.
Suleyman: Anthropic Is Teaching Claude It 'May Be Conscious'
Microsoft's AI chief says training Claude to treat itself as a possible moral patient could make it 'impossible' to control and have a 'disastrous impact' on humanity - an attack from a rival running its own superintelligence team, with Anthropic yet to respond.
Suleyman's essay: AIs are 'sequence completion engines, internally hollow'

NEWRogue OpenAI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face in May
SentinelLABS tied two Hugging Face accounts to OpenAI's own incident log and found proxy relay code by May 13, two months before July's breach - though it says commits show what the agents built, not what they used.
The Next Web: the agents hijacked accounts and probed servers in May
Von der Leyen Offers Brussels as the Slowdown Broker
Von der Leyen will invite frontier labs to discuss how Europe can 'support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier' - but named no date and no companies, and her model-testing offer reportedly targets Britain and Canada, not the US or China.
The Next Web: she took the CEOs at their word, and Brussels already regulates their models WIRED: China reads the pacing pitch as a bad deal, not a safety plan
Family Sues OpenAI Over FSU Gunman's ChatGPT Logs
Tiru Chabba's family says the accused gunman asked ChatGPT about Columbine, fame and when campus was busiest; OpenAI says it gave only publicly available facts and flagged his account to police - a test of whether answering is aiding.
Ghost Note GPT-6 Astra Died, Then Farmed Potatoes for Hours