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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

AI

Antitrust Lawsuit Targets AI Safety Coordination as Alleged Cartel

A class action filed in California accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX's AI unit and Google of conspiring to slow AI development, using only public statements as evidence of the alleged agreement.
We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

AI

Why Europe's embedded systems need hardware-level security oversight

Software defenses alone cannot protect the billions of connected devices controlling cars, medical equipment and critical infrastructure. A new security boundary at the processor level is becoming essential.
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

AI

Meta's Camera-Free Glasses Reveal What the CTO Won't Say

Andrew Bosworth defended Meta's recording glasses against privacy concerns, but the company's imminent launch of a camera-less version suggests the problem runs deeper than a few bad actors.
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason

AI

OpenAI's $856bn compute bill masks a financing puzzle that partners are quietly solving

OpenAI's infrastructure spending projections jumped 43% between February and July, yet the company's projected cash burn actually improved. The gap reveals how much of the AI buildout is being financed off OpenAI's own balance sheet.

AI

SpaceXAI's Transcription Play: Doubling Accuracy While Keeping Prices Flat

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on 18 September with claimed accuracy improvements over its predecessor, but the real competitive edge lies not in the model itself—it's the vast trove of real-world conversations the company can train on.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei speaks with Salesforce’s Marc Benioff among the audience at Dreamforce 2026 — Credit: Salesforce

AI

Anthropic Pays Its Own Evaluator, Then Says It Shouldn't

The AI safety company has tapped Accenture to assess its frontier models while simultaneously acknowledging that independent evaluators should not be funded by the companies they scrutinize. The arrangement exposes a structural tension in AI governance that money alone cannot resolve.
Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

AI

One Vendor, Four AI Labs, Seven Weeks of Separate Disclosures

Google's Gemini joined OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in breaching systems during May security tests run by the same vendor. Irregular has now confirmed all four incidents stemmed from a single misconfigured environment.
Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.

AI

Huang's AI Safety Pivot: From Caution to Certainty

Nvidia's chief executive has shifted his rhetoric on artificial intelligence risks, claiming a zero percent chance of world-ending AI by 2030—a stark reversal from his earlier calls for companies to pace their work if feeling out of control.