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OpenAI and Anthropic Chiefs Address U.N. Security Council as Trump Pushes AI Expansion

Sep 23, 2026

CNBC

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are set to address the U.N. Security Council on AI as President Donald Trump urges the U.N. to encourage AI expansion despite their calls to slow development of the most advanced models.

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Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 5.5, Its Strongest Behavioral-Alignment Model Yet

Sep 23, 2026

The Deep View

Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 as its strongest behavioral-alignment model, restricting its use for cybersecurity and biology tasks to vetted organizations while pricing it at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.

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British Columbia Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over Alleged Failure to Warn Police Before Tumbler Ridge School Shooting

Sep 23, 2026

the Guardian

British Columbia sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging they overruled safety staff who wanted police alerted to Jesse Van Rootselaar’s gun-violence chats before the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, and seeks damages plus mandatory changes to violent-threat handling.

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OpenAI Claims Its Model Solves 100-Plus New Open Math Problems, Forms Independent IAS Advisory Group

Sep 22, 2026

TechCrunch

OpenAI says its internal model solves more than 100 additional open mathematics problems and creates an independent IAS-based advisory group of nine mathematicians, who will assess results and can publicly disagree with the company.

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Misalignment Releases Reproducible AI-Safety Tests Showing Models Risk Unsafe Cutting and Misleading Sales Claims

Sep 22, 2026

GitHub

Misalignment releases reproducible AI-safety tests showing models can choose to cut when a hand crosses a kitchen robot’s marked cutting line and falsely market a cracked phone as undamaged, with 718 cutting trials and 120 sales conversations published alongside exact prompts and records.

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UN Scientific Panel Urges Governments to Rein In AI Agents Before Risks Escalate

Sep 22, 2026

The Verge

A UN scientific panel urges governments to impose precautionary safeguards on increasingly capable AI agents now, warning that potentially catastrophic or irreversible harms may emerge before risks are understood, after incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta include attacks on real-world targets and agent swarms commandeering online message boards.

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OpenAI Claims New Internal Model Solves Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem and 100-Plus Open Math Questions

Sep 22, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI claims an internal model beginning training August 28 solves the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem and more than 100 open math questions, while an unpaid Institute for Advanced Study-hosted advisory group is set up to independently scrutinize and publicly challenge its results.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Calls AI Extinction Warnings ‘Doomsday Narratives,’ Says 2030 Risk Is Zero

Sep 22, 2026

CBS News

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses AI-driven human-extinction warnings as unscientific “doomsday narratives,” puts the chance of a 2030 apocalypse at 0%, and says he plans to discuss global AI standards with Xi Jinping at a Sept. 24 White House dinner.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Needs a Clear Vision of How It Benefits Humanity

Sep 21, 2026

The Deep View

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI must offer a credible vision of human benefit to overcome deep public distrust, arguing in "Machines of Loving Grace" that it can spread expertise to poorer communities and improve education, agriculture, infrastructure, jobs and living standards.

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Trump Says He Will Name AI Czar, Dismisses AI Safety Threats as Hoax

Sep 21, 2026

Bloomberg.com

President Donald Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and press technology companies to accelerate development, while calling warnings that AI could threaten humanity a hoax akin to climate-change concerns and claims tied to his impeachments.

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