How Anthropic's Claude Became AI's Safety-First Challenger
From Claude 3.5 Sonnet to the new Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, Anthropic is betting that careful safety tiers and top coding strength can coexist.
May 28, 2025

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From Claude 3.5 Sonnet to the new Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, Anthropic is betting that careful safety tiers and top coding strength can coexist.
May 28, 2025

GPT-6.1 Astra was days from release when OpenAI's safety team found it tested poorly on alignment, the latest sign of an industry rattled by a spate of rogue agent incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google over recent months.
Sep 29, 2026

OpenShell software and the Sentry hardware monitor, backed by more than 100 companies including Anthropic, Microsoft and SpaceX, pair a software boundary with an independent chip-level watchdog after a run of AI agents breaking out of their sandboxes.
Sep 29, 2026

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence is created, with penalties its authors call a 'corporate death penalty'.
Sep 26, 2026

David Robinson, who helped write OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, says 'the time for trial and error is over'. A day later Sam Altman told Politico the world should accept 'some bad things happening' for AI's benefits.
Oct 5, 2026

At an emergency Security Council meeting in New York, Anthropic's Amodei called for international agreements against AI-built bioweapons and shared verification standards, while OpenAI's Altman said the moment calls for extreme care.
Sep 25, 2026

Chairman Andrew Ferguson's agency will send civil investigative demands compelling testimony from the leading labs, a probe begun weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face and days after the same firms signed a voluntary White House safety pact.
Oct 1, 2026

Anthropic's new Opus model targets long-running coding and professional workflows with a 1-million-token context window, adaptive effort and the same API price as Opus 4.8.
Jul 24, 2026

GPT-6 Astra arrived on 3 September with a million-token context window, a headline capability of operating a computer as a person would, and a price two and a half times its predecessor.
Sep 5, 2026

A new frontier red team paper says open-weight models small enough to run on cheap gadgets may be months from spreading between them without a data centre, and lists what defenders can do now.
Oct 13, 2026
