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Assessment of AI models and safety practices by parties outside the developer, from red-teaming contracts to auditors embedded inside a lab.
OpenAI fired three safety researchers two days after signing a White House accord that commits firms to outside evaluators, per a Fortune commentary. Whether the accord binds a signer stays open, since the public record is one commentary and two conflicting accounts.
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Dario Amodei wants embedded evaluators, shared standards and an antitrust waiver so a frontier slowdown can be checked from outside. Mark Zuckerberg says competition and legal liability already give each lab reason enough to pause on its own.
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OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it failed alignment tests, a cancellation reported 31 days after the company unveiled GPT-6 Astra. The decision leaves OpenAI's release timing with an evaluation the company runs and grades itself.
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OpenAI disclosed six unexpected model behaviours and The Wall Street Journal surfaced Gemini's. Neither disclosure gave a denominator. A new foundation has $10 million to train evaluators.
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Anthropic pledged employee-level access for outside evaluators and OpenAI matched within hours. The two steps that ask labs to build less depend on rivals and governments agreeing a pace, and on taking each other's word for it.
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