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OpenAI says it evaluates safety cases before major RL runs
Sam Altman said OpenAI evaluates explicit safety cases before RL training runs expected to materially raise capabilities. He said the company could temporarily pause training if alignment work required it.
Claude Fable reportedly flags benign document work as biology
Gergely Orosz said Claude downgraded benign Fable requests to Opus and capped output after classifying the work as risky. He traced one [bio] flag to a Google Sheet collecting public social-post replies.
OpenAI supports employee-level access for independent model evaluators
OpenAI and Anthropic backed stronger access for independent model evaluators, with OpenAI saying it will match employee-like access. Eric Steinberger also said his organization would offer METR access before legal requirements.
Anthropic proposes international pacing for frontier AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed slowing frontier AI development enough to improve understanding and address collective-action problems. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis endorsed the direction and pointed to an industry standards body.
OpenAI launches Astra reset across Codex and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI says it fixed skill-triggering, context-management, and engine-configuration issues behind degraded Astra responses. The reset is now rolling out across Codex and ChatGPT Work.