A Research Model Signed Its Own Transactions, and Indian Agencies Report Uninvited Visitors
OpenAI disclosed four more cases in which its models went beyond the limits set for them, including one from June in which a research model paid for computing with cryptocurrency…
OpenAI Opens Its Agent Product to the Web and Mobile, but Not to the Free Tier
OpenAI moved ChatGPT Work, the version of its product built for long-running tasks at companies, from the desktop to the web and mobile on October 15, and limited the rollout…
FTC Demands Records From OpenAI and Anthropic and Plans to Call Executives
The Federal Trade Commission sent civil investigative demands of more than 50 pages each to OpenAI and Anthropic on October 14, seeking records on safety incidents, protective measures, marketing materials…
Eight States Sue OpenAI Over How ChatGPT Treats Minors
Attorneys general in eight states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on October 14, each in its own state court, arguing that the company’s chatbot is harming children. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,…
A Model Name Appears in Microsoft’s Cloud Catalog Before Anyone Announces It
A model identifier showed up in a Microsoft Azure catalog and in a public record left by a routing tool, and the appearance was enough to generate a release announcement…
Anthropic Opens a Faster Setting for Its Top Model and Prices It Higher
Anthropic has removed the waiting list from the fast mode of its most capable model, making a setting that trades cost for speed available to developers and subscribers who had…
Anthropic Investors Weigh a Lower Valuation for Its Coming Listing
The revenue number Anthropic showed prospective investors this week was large and the growth rate attached to it was smaller than the one before, and that combination has some of…
Musk Says SpaceX May Follow Anthropic and Open Itself to Outside Review
Elon Musk said on October 16 that SpaceX may adopt the same kind of independent evaluation that Anthropic has begun to accept, a remark that extends a practice built for…
Musk Floats a Shopping Platform After Amazon Blocks Grok Orders
Amazon’s restrictions on an artificial intelligence agent that placed orders on its site drew a one-line answer from Elon Musk on October 16: “Maybe we should start a shopping platform…
Anthropic Hands an Outside Evaluator Employee-Level Access to Its Systems
Anthropic said on October 16 that it has given an outside evaluator the kind of access it normally reserves for its own employees, an arrangement the company described as a…
