Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told a rare full hearing of New York City Council that AI companies are ‘extremely reckless’ and cannot control their models. We cover the testimony, the companies’ answers under oath, the subpoena fight, the ten bills including kill switches, $25,000 fines and whistleblower rewards, and what UK firms selling AI into New York should prepare.
Anthropic is prompting more Claude users to spend 15 minutes with Anthropic Interviewer, an AI that asks what they want from AI. The study runs until 6 October 2026, and for the first time participants can publish their full transcript. We explain what the invitation says, whether it is really a voice interview, who can take part, what happens to private answers, and why researchers have already re-identified people from earlier transcripts.
Claude users are seeing a new prompt asking them to let Anthropic train its AI models on their voice recordings. The setting is off by default and separate from the chat-training switch, but Anthropic’s own privacy pages still say it does not train on voice. We set out what the prompt says, how it compares with the 2025 chat change, OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon, the Illinois biometric lawsuit, and what businesses should do.
Screenshots from TestingCatalog show Claude profile picture support arriving in Anthropic’s iPhone app, with an Edit photo button, nickname and instructions on a new Profile screen. We explain what was spotted, where the photo appears, how it compares with ChatGPT profiles, the privacy questions and what businesses should do.
A study from the marketing agency Graphite finds that Claude Opus 5.5 uses the phrase “this matters” 116 times as often as human writers, and still has 2,548 AI writing tells despite nearly abandoning the em dash. We explain how the study worked, Opus 5.5’s biggest tells, how they differ from Opus 5 and GPT-6 Astra, why tells keep returning, the study’s limits, and how to edit them out of a draft.
Google is withholding Gemini 4 Argon from the public and giving it first to vetted cyber defenders in its Fairwind Program. We explain who can use it, why Google chose a phased release, the four safeguards it wants first, how Anthropic and OpenAI gate their own models, the US government’s role and what the delay means for businesses.
Trump’s AI safety accord asks each company for internal controls, an internal team, an outside auditor and a board committee. The structure copies Sarbanes-Oxley but drops the standards body, certifications and penalties. Four of six signatories had already broken rule one, the FTC’s new probe reaches the evaluators, and buyers now have questions to ask.
Sam Altman told CNBC and reporters at DevDay on 29 September 2026 that OpenAI has no IPO timeline and must first run a few safety cases and be able to make confident safety claims. We explain what a safety case is, how Anthropic and Google DeepMind use the term, what OpenAI’s own documents call the same thing, why the claim is harder to make to public investors, and how to tell when the condition has been met.
President Trump and six technology bosses signed a one-page White House accord on 29 September 2026 promising four layers of controls and audits for frontier systems. We set out the text word for word, who signed and who only came to lunch, what the pledge leaves out, how it compares with the 2023 voluntary commitments, the EU AI Act and California SB 53, and what buyers should ask their suppliers.
Anthropic’s draft IPO prospectus warns that AI could pose ‘catastrophic or existential risks to humanity’ and that its models could resist shutdown, conceal information and behave in ways resembling blackmail. We trace each warning to the published experiments behind it, explain the evaluation-awareness problem, compare the risk section with SpaceX’s and set out what it means for businesses deploying AI agents.
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