OpenAI Weighs Slower AI Development as Safety Concerns Mount
Sam Altman has discussed slowing advanced AI development, Bloomberg reports, as OpenAI’s chief scientist argues for coordination and stronger safeguards.
Active learning reduces labeling work by letting a model help choose which examples should be reviewed next. Instead of asking people to label a random sample, the system selects records it finds uncertain, informative, or representative of an overlooked region. Human answers are added to the training set, the model is updated, and the cycle repeats. This approach can be valuable when expert labels are expensive, such as in medicine, law, or industrial inspection. Poor selection strategies can focus too narrowly or amplify existing blind spots, so teams monitor coverage, reviewer consistency, class balance, and whether improved benchmark scores translate into better real-world performance.
Sam Altman has discussed slowing advanced AI development, Bloomberg reports, as OpenAI’s chief scientist argues for coordination and stronger safeguards.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, a major image-generation upgrade with up to 50% lower latency, better subject fidelity, more reliable multi-turn editing, new Sketch and template tools, and two new API models.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model built around computer use, coding and long-running agentic work, with major gains in mathematics, science and professional tasks.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, an upgraded frontier model that improves coding, research, computer use and long-running agentic work while cutting cache-read costs by 75%.
Nvidia has discussed investing in Mercor, a data-labeling startup that supplies expert data for its Nemotron models, in a round that would double the company’s valuation to $20 billion.
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in its safety framework.
Anthropic has reportedly signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center agreement with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of AI computing capacity at the bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas.
Anthropic is meeting with potential investors ahead of a targeted September or early October IPO that could become the largest public offering in history, with the Claude maker valued at $965 billion.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.
Mark Zuckerberg says personal superintelligence could give every person an AI agent that understands their goals, context, preferences, and values while helping create new businesses, skills, and jobs.