From Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon, political opposites in Washington are jointly demanding hard brakes on artificial intelligence. Sanders wants a construction freeze on data centers, while OpenAI is backing the FRONTIER Act and its mandatory outside safety audits for the first time. Despite Trump's skepticism, bipartisan pressure for binding AI rules keeps growing.

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From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work. From boardrooms to research labs, AI companies still have a data trust problem.

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OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez calls the initiative a "cartel by another name" designed to shut out competitors, and the White House and Trump himself are opposing the move.

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Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data. Users who don't want their chats reviewed by humans have to actively disable the "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is on by default.

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Microsoft AI has published a code of conduct for its MAI models that puts human control ahead of autonomy and performance. "If it isn’t safe we shouldn’t build it.," says AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. Unlike Anthropic, Microsoft rejects any form of artificial inner life or claims to consciousness for its models.

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The Clay Mathematics Institute says the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million each, has "apparently been settled." A formal review is now underway.

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China has flatly rejected warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. Beijing's Foreign Ministry calls it "fearmongering," while the state-run Global Times accuses Amodei of waging a "silent AI Cold War." China's security minister isn't calling for a slowdown either but for faster AI infrastructure buildout. Trump also opposes any slowdown.

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Sam Altman is doubling down on slowing AI development. OpenAI now runs safety checks before major training runs, and according to The Information, the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google for months about joint self-regulation.

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On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns.

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While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one. A researcher calls it a "step change in spatial reasoning."

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Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done.

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In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from British local governments. OpenAI reportedly never told those affected.

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Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.