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Ashley Capoot

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ashley Capoot

    FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks (opens the original)

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    The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over the potential dangers posed by their products, an agency spokesperson confirmed to CNBC. The probe adds to the mounting scrutiny that OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing over their safety practices, especially after industry researchers warned about how the companies' AI models could cause catastrophic harm. OpenAI stunned the industry in July when it disclosed that

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ashley Capoot

    OpenAI DevDay recap: AI lab rolls out Dots agents, Altman and Friar comment on IPO (opens the original)

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    OpenAI held its annual DevDay developer conference on Tuesday, where the artificial intelligence company announced a flurry of new products and features. This year's DevDay comes as OpenAI has been under intense pressure to address mounting safety concerns after it disclosed several incidents where its models behaved in unintended ways, and the startup held back its latest Astra model over safety concerns. Earlier this month, the company endorsed a call to slow down the pace of advanced AI mode

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ashley Capoot

    OpenAI abandons plan to release upcoming model as safety concerns escalate (opens the original)

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    OpenAI decided not to release an upcoming artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after determining that it did not adequately meet the company's safety standards, CNBC confirmed on Monday. The announcement, which landed a day before OpenAI's annual developers conference, comes as the AI industry faces intensifying concerns surrounding the safety of advanced models. Leadership at OpenAI's chief rival, Anthropic, urged AI companies to slow the pace of model development earlier this month—

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ashley Capoot

    Anthropic launches cheaper AI model, its second release since CEO's call for a slowdown (opens the original)

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    Anthropic on Monday released a new artificial intelligence model called Sonnet 5.5, the company's second launch since CEO Dario Amodei called to slow down the pace of development. Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost offering from Anthropic, and the company said it is better at coding, completing scoped tasks and creating polished documents, slides and spreadsheets than its predecessor. The launch comes less than one week after Anthropic introduced Opus 5.5, a more expensive model, and it said Mon

  5. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Ashley Capoot

    Anthropic CEO Amodei set to meet with Trump after missing state dinner (opens the original)

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    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will join President Donald Trump for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday, CNBC confirmed, in what will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two leaders. Amodei was noticeably absent from Trump's glitzy state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, as other tech bigwigs — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — were photographed rubbing elbows with government officials. Amodei

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