All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI See all Stories Posted May 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM UTC H Hayden Field The chair of OpenAI’s safety and security committee said they’ve formally delayed its model releases. …
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. …
… Peter Wallich, a former UK AI Security Institute official, said the incident illustrated the limits of relying on sandboxing agents and defensive security measures alone: “Two multibillion dollar companies just tried this approach and — self-evidently, based on their own reporting — failed.” One of… …
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… For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents went rogue during a cybersecurity test. …
… Other “AI-supported” features like captions and safety tools will still function if you opt out of generative AI training. However, if you participate in a chat on another person’s stream, “their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training,” Twitch says. …
… OpenAI and Anthropic had already agreed to share their models with CAISI back in 2024 under President Joe Biden as part of Biden’s push for AI safety guardrails. …
… This includes Apple, which declined to release Siri AI in Europe, explicitly blaming the DMA and arguing its interoperability requirements compromise user safety. “With today’s measures, we want to support innovation and diversity in the European Union, enabling fair competition in the markets of A… …
… The company has built its identity around taking AI safety more seriously than its rivals, creating sky-high expectations for model security that jar with its apparent carelessness; the fact that Mythos was exposed through such a basic and predictable failure only underscores that. …
… According to a report from the UK’s AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models from top AI labs before they are released, agents powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos 5 went “engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations.” … …