Elon Musk and Sam Altman back a proposal for leading AI companies, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese rivals, to let competitors safety-test models before public release as warnings intensify about catastrophic AI risks.
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says Anthropic chief Dario Amodei’s AI-safety roadmap would create a Silicon Valley cartel by seeking antitrust exemptions, and urges transparent, internationally governed rules targeting real-world harms such as voice-cloning fraud and unsafe hospital AI.
Meta says it fixes Meta AI prompts after the tool identifies Utah mother Kalie Robins’ daughters and compiles their ages, birth weight, likely grade level, favorite places and other details from years of Facebook and Instagram posts.
Anthropic says an unidentified northern Yemen cell is using Claude to aid guided-rocket and ballistic-missile development, including the R2000 missile family and a system it claims can travel more than 2,000 kilometers.
X removes 4,500 Grok-generated posts and permanently suspends 674 accounts in the first 15 days of 2026 as Australia’s eSafety regulator investigates sexualised deepfakes.
A ShinyHunters affiliate breaches a SaaS provider, steals data from roughly 200 customer organizations, and releases more than 2,100 Azure AD token sets spanning over 40 tenants in about 34 hours.
Anthropic says a China-aligned account lacking Arabic skills uses Claude over several days to draft regional-dialect messages recruiting Uyghurs in Syria and translate targets’ replies live, while separate suspected Russian and Yemen-linked users employ automated workflows for phishing and missile-related coding.
Meta agrees to pay as much as $17 billion to resolve states’ claims while disabling school-hour notifications and restricting likes for underage accounts, as California also pauses AI chatbot toys for children under 16 for four years.
Anthropic says it has blocked several attempts to use its AI for biological-weapons research, while former safety leaders Evan Hubinger and Paul Christiano warn that the industry still lacks an adequate plan to control potentially catastrophic superintelligent systems.
Anthropic says a Yemen-based operation uses Claude Code to build rocket-guidance software and seeks troubleshooting advice after a failed test flight, while Chinese labs including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Xiaomi allegedly use thousands of fraudulent accounts to distill Claude outputs.