Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic

The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.

Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering

Another dance around fears of open-source.

Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding

But neither one is all that good.

The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes

These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

OpenAI published a blog post emphasizing its commitment to safety and harm mitigation. Its promises read as proactive — but are anything but.

Sam Altman thinks ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the good of AI.

In an interview with Brendan Bordelon of Politico, Altman said this was a fundamental difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. He believes that “for the benefits of this technology” (rather than the benefit of humanity), we should just deal with “bad things happening.” [Link: Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI | https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 | Politico]

No need to panic about Anthropic’s new blog, and some more good news

The twitterverse is all verklempt with Anthropic’s latest blog.

OpenAI shares data on ChatGPT users with suicidal thoughts, psychosis

The figure could mean potentially hundreds of thousands of users show signs of mental health distress weekly.

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Are we human?

OpenAI confirms the link

OpenAI connects the Dots

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

OpenAI #16: A History and a Proposal

The real news today is that Anthropic has partnered with the top companies in cybersecurity to try and patch everyone’s systems to fix all the thousands of zero-day exploits found by their new model Claude Mythos.

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: "Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework"

An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT's close ties to a series of suicides.