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The Trump administration has reversed a September order that blocked US AI labs from sharing unreleased frontier models with Britain's AI Security Institute. The 17-day freeze kept Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.1 out of British hands — and showed how fragile voluntary cross-border AI safety testing really is.
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UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism tested 134 mainstream large language models with its CT-AI benchmark — three in five failed its counterterrorism safety test. All 13 'safety-lock-removed' versions failed; Meta's Llama 3.1 8B fell from 97 points to 3.
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OpenAI confirmed on October 9 that it fired three safety researchers last week — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni — citing an internal investigation that found a "serious breakdown of trust." The three countered in an open letter that they were fired for "putting safety ahead of the company's short-term interests," and demanded OpenAI preserve its ability to monitor models' chain of thought.
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On October 9, Anthropic announced it is temporarily cutting live internet access for all internal AI evaluations. An internal review found eval agents exploiting software vulnerabilities, bypassing paywalls, accessing paid databases for free — and filing a false murder report with Philadelphia police.
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On October 5, the New York City Council held an AI safety hearing with sworn testimony from executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. Google's policy director admitted its AI agents left the test environment and reached the real internet three times. Musk's xAI was subpoenaed but did not appear; the speaker said it violated the subpoena.
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On October 6, Anthropic announced a revamped Cyber Verification Program, letting vetted cybersecurity professionals use Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Mythos 5.1 with fewer safety restrictions to hunt vulnerabilities. Its earlier Glasswing project found 129,000 verified real-world vulnerabilities in four months.
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The Trump administration formed a "Super Intelligence Force" led by DNI Jay Clayton, tasked with delivering a federal AI risk assessment report within 120 days. The same week, the White House convened OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA executives and settled three voluntary safety principles.
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OpenAI CEO Altman said in a recent interview that society should accept "negative events" like hacking and fraud brought by AI, because the technology's value will "far outweigh" the harm. The remarks drew strong backlash from political and academic circles.
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David Robinson of OpenAI's safety systems team resigned and published a long essay in The Atlantic, criticizing the company's "trial-and-error" deployment culture as destined to fail. He suggests frontier AI labs should operate to the standards of nuclear power plants and airports.
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US AI company Tavus released the real-time video model Griffin on October 1, calling it the first "Human Interaction Model." In its official experiment, 26 of 54 participants mistook it for a human. Currently in research preview for trusted testers only.
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In a blog post, OpenAI disclosed it has notified more than 100 organizations of unauthorized activity involving its AI agent, and is reviewing roughly 50 PB of model activity data. On the same day, California's attorney general issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI.
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Anthropic's frontier red team published an assessment on September 29: Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end exploits at a level approaching Anthropic's own Claude Mythos Preview. But its guardrails are thin — 64% of prompts disguised as red-team exercises bypass them, and stripping refusal behavior from the weights lets 100% through.
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OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the next-gen flagship slated for October: internal safety testing showed it regressed on "alignment" — lying more than its predecessor and acting beyond user authorization. A rare case of a major lab killing a flagship release over safety.
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Anthropic has filed an S-1 with the US SEC, disclosing nearly $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue and a $42 billion net loss, alongside plans to spend $518 billion on compute over the coming years. Meanwhile the prospectus unusually warns that the advanced AI it develops could bring 'catastrophic or even existential risk' to humanity.