… Hedley tells WIRED in an interview that he believes xAI has the worst safety practices “nearly across the board” compared to other frontier AI developers, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. …
… OpenAI’s lawyer, William Savitt, then asked whether OpenAI’s technology had been used in any way to develop xAI. Savitt: Has OpenAI technology been used in any way to develop xAI? Musk: It is standard practice to use other AIs to validate your AI. …
… More broadly, Anthropic emphasizes that the purpose of convening the effort is to kickstart urgent exploration of how AI capabilities across the industry are on the precipice, the company says, of upending current software security and digital defense practices around the world. “The real message i… …
… Developers have been using Anthropic’s API to deploy AI agents, such as Claude Code, in their workspace. …
… In 2017, Canadian researchers raised alarm when they used $100,000 worth of mail-order DNA to reconstitute the extinct horsepox virus. Critics said the same methodology could be used to construct smallpox, a closely related and deadly virus. …
… Cesar Fernandez, the head of US state and local government relations at Anthropic, told WIRED in a statement that SB 315 will help “establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet.” However, other Silicon Valley trade groups have pushed back against the legislation. …
… That flexibility matters because US export controls restrict Chinese firms from accessing the world's most advanced AI chips, particularly those used for training, which at this point are primarily developed by Western companies like Nvidia. “We will continue to push for training on more different … …
… Establishing these baseline protections is key to promoting trust in agentic AI and promoting adoption of AI-powered tools, Parikh notes. Whether users are looking to adopt AI capabilities or not, though, the reality of their proliferation means that minimum guardrails are necessary either way. …
… OpenAI has more recently come out in support of a different bill in Illinois, which would be one of the strongest AI laws in the nation, requiring leading AI companies to have their safety practices audited by outside third parties. …
… The command-line tool Curl ended its bug bounty program run through third-party service HackerOne in January after being inundated with low-quality submissions generated by AI. “We have concluded the hard way that a bug bounty gives people too strong incentives to find and make up ‘problems’ in bad… …