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SAFETY
🛑 Anthropic CEO urges rivals to slow AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities. Amodei outlined a three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time to manage its risks.
The details:
Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman said in posts on X that they agree with Amodei.
Amodei's three-step plan calls for independent reviewers inside leading AI companies, coordination among frontier AI firms to set safety standards, and international cooperation.
Anthropic released a threat intelligence report detailing how several actors had used its Claude AI models for activities ranging from weapons development to fraud.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview that OpenAI will not hold an initial public offering in 2026. Altman said the current environment makes it the wrong time to go public due to AI safety concerns.
The details:
Altman did not commit to a timeline for an IPO when asked about 2027.
OpenAI has discussed pausing development as it reaches new levels of AI capability to allow additional progress on safety.
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called on companies to coordinate on slowing future development until shared safety standards are in place.
Zscaler has launched Zscaler Agentic SOC, now available globally. Zscaler Agentic SOC combines Zscaler's telemetry, threat intelligence and automated remediation with integrations into third-party security tools.
The details:
Zscaler Agentic SOC uses models from Anthropic and OpenAI alongside Zscaler's own data.
Zscaler's platform processes 750 billion daily Zero Trust transactions.
Zscaler Agentic SOC uses specialized AI agents to handle tasks including alert triage, root-cause investigation, verdict assignment and response workflows.