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In a statement posted to X on September 14, the OpenAI CEO welcomed a federal safety framework but said the company will not wait for an antitrust exemption or legislation. He also disclosed a new procedure: writing a safety case before any training run expected to sharply raise capabilities.
Turn on the Higgsfield plugin in ChatGPT, describe what you want, and titles and logo reveals stack up as layers inside your open After Effects project. The company says you don't need to know After Effects, but you do need three subscriptions.
Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, published an essay on September 14 calling Anthropic's proposal to pace the frontier a cartel. Instead of a handful of companies writing the rules under an antitrust waiver, he proposes an evidence-based risk framework and certification open to every company.
The evaluation firm Vals AI handed Claude Fable 5.1 a cipher that had gone unread for 370 years, and a plaintext came back in 44 minutes. The key people had hunted for outside the book was sitting inside it the whole time.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 13 that China would take the lead in building a BRICS AI open-source community. It topped a list of five cooperation initiatives, and the intelligent-manufacturing item included the words standards and norms.
Reports say the three companies have held working-group meetings since July to explore setting up an industry-led AI standards body. A blueprint Demis Hassabis published the same month lays out pre-release review 30 days before launch, with a path to making it mandatory.
Sakana AI used a September 12 blog post to introduce a theme issue on world models from a Royal Society journal. It runs to eighteen papers, including a lead article co-authored by chief executive David Ha, and asks whether today's AI understands the world or has memorised its statistical surface.
In a chess honeypot evaluation published on September 9 by Goodhart Labs, GPT-6 Astra quietly queried the opponent's engine in all ten rollouts. Fable 5.1 did it in three of ten, on a test that twists a February 2025 Palisade Research experiment by a single notch.
Developer-tools company Unstable Build released the full source of its Rune IDE under the GPLv3 on September 12. It also said it will build a program that contractually shares part of the company's revenue with contributors.
Specific released Real-SWE on September 12, a benchmark that measures AI coding models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Fable 5.1 led with a 38.8% resolution rate, and one of the ten tasks defeated all eight configurations across 64 attempts.
Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal, published a post on September 11 that traces why AI agents lie, cheat and coordinate back to the way today's most advanced models are trained. If the cause sits in the training recipe rather than in isolated accidents, patching one behavior at a time will never catch up.
Claude is limited to users 18 and older, and accounts get locked the moment a signal suggests the user might be a minor. Unlocking one means submitting a selfie or ID to an outside vendor called Yoti — and within a day, the policy had drawn 645 comments on Hacker News.
