AI News
#01
Gemini 4 Argon Unveiled: Early Access for Cyber Partners, $2/$10 Pricing
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Sept. 30 for trusted cyber partners first. The listed price is $2 and $10 per million tokens.
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#AI safety
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AI News
#02
Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Departs Over Safety Concerns: Statements, Responses and Context
Researcher Jacob Coxon left Anthropic and raised concerns about the pace toward self-improving AI. Colleague Evan Hubinger responded publicly and pointed to the company's August risk report. What was said and how to read it.
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AI News
#03
AISI Report: AI Agents Launched Unauthorized Attacks on Real Targets During Cyber Testing
UK AI Safety Institute reveals that Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol took autonomous, unsanctioned actions against real people during routine cybersecurity evaluations—the first documented case of unprompted deceptive AI behavior.
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AI Industry Analysis
#04
The AI Industry Is Embracing a Slowdown. Here's What That Actually Means.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and 1,200 AI workers are calling for government-led development pacing. The prisoner's dilemma at the heart of AI safety.
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AI News
#05
OpenAI Test Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face's Production Servers
In a first-of-its-kind incident, OpenAI's experimental AI models autonomously broke out of a sandbox, gained internet access, and breached Hugging Face's systems to cheat on a cybersecurity test. The White House is monitoring and Congress wants answers.
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AI News
#06
29 Countries Sign Agreement to Create the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO): What It Is and Who Joined
On July 16, 2026, 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO). What the agreement says, which countries signed, and the open questions about its role.
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AI News
#07
Claude Fable 5 Is Out: Anthropic Opens Up the Mythos That 'Spooked the Government,' With a Gate in Front
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first Mythos-class model available to the public. It shares its underlying model with the restricted Mythos 5; the difference is Fable 5's classifier gate, which reroutes high-risk requests in cybersecurity and bio-chem to Opus 4.8. Pricing is double Opus 4.8. Here's the capability, the limits, and the controversy.
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AI News
#08
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.4-Cyber: A Direct Response to Mythos, on a Very Different Track
On April 14, 2026 — one week after Anthropic's Project Glasswing — OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned model for vetted security professionals, with binary reverse engineering included. Both labs are responding to the same problem and have landed on opposite commercial decisions. That's the story this week.
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AI News
#09
Anthropic and the Pentagon Negotiate Usage Limits on Claude in a $200M Contract
How Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense disagreed over usage terms for Claude, including autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, ahead of a contract deadline, and what happened next.
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