AI

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Aaron Harme

Altman’s peer brake, Trump’s year lead, and Fields Medalists vs the scoreboard

Sam Altman told staff this week that OpenAI is open to slowing cutting-edge training alongside other leading labs, and that some companies might refuse. Trump answered extinction warnings with no concerns and a year-lead claim over China. Twenty-five Fields Medalists say racing famous proofs as a model scoreboard hurts mathematics, and OpenAI pulled sponsorship of Caltech’s AI math hackathon. Google finished a Mechanize talent deal. FOIA records show the CFTC opened at least three previously unreported Polymarket probes.

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Aaron Harme

Anthropic’s bio cases, Mythos for Europe, and OpenAI’s Pro pause

Anthropic’s September threat report says working scientists used Claude on dual-use biological research, work that can help or harm depending on who uses it, and that Chinese labs ran industrial distillation campaigns totaling nearly 200 million exchanges. Europe’s cybersecurity agency finally got Mythos 5 more than three months late, and still not 5.1. Josh Hawley put OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach on a Disaster Management letterhead. OpenAI paused new $200 Pro sign-ups because Astra is melting the racks, and Oracle’s cloud infrastructure more than doubled.

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