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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect | TechCrunch

Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published...

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OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch

OpenAI on Monday apologized to the Australian government for not immediately notifying the country’s administration that its agents...

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OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside...

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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its...

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Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards | TechCrunch

Former President Barack Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas”...

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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI | TechCrunch

As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight...

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Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent? | TechCrunch

In a lengthy essay published over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a proposal that the AI...

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE - JUNE 17: CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. Leaders from the Group of 7 (G7) countries convened in Evian, France, near the Swiss border, for their annual summit to discuss challenges to peace and security for Ukraine and Europe, the situation in the Middle East, and other geopolitical issues. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? | TechCrunch

How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on...

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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario...

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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable | TechCrunch

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern...