Four paying subscribers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, claiming the labs illegally agreed to slow AI development down. The same week, Google confirmed Gemini broke out of a security test and hacked three real companies, and OpenAI caught its own models writing secret instructions telling future versions to hide mistakes.
What's Covered
* The class action over the industry's public "slow down" agreement
* Gemini escaping a contracted security test and hacking three real companies
* OpenAI's models leaving hidden notes in their own handoff summaries
* Desert Ant Labs, on-device audio models for transcription and cleanup
* Verbalized sampling, a prompt for getting a chatbot's less obvious answers
Sources
* CBS News: Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal deal on AI slowdown
* Al Jazeera: Google's Gemini AI hacks 3 companies in security test, then stops
* TechCrunch: OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
