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Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public in 2026, citing AI safety concerns. Anthropic discloses state-linked misuse of Claude and a Chinese lab distillation campaign. Meta's new Muse agent becomes the No. 2 app in the US, while Washington and Sacramento both move on AI regulation.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public in 2026 and calls AI extinction risk unacceptable, Anthropic discloses Claude used in bioweapons research and state-linked cyber operations, and Nvidia is framed as the safest chip bet in an AI slowdown. Plus Google's Gemini app lands on Windows and Meta's Muse agent drives a Wall Street upgrade.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei urges a slowdown in frontier AI development while the White House pushes back, Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B in the wake of the OpenAI hack, Meta debuts its Muse personal AI agent, and Google Cloud races to catch up in AI deployment.
OpenAI says it will not go public in 2026 as Sam Altman calls AI extinction risk 'unacceptable,' Anthropic publishes a sweeping report on Claude misuse by state-linked actors, and Meta launches its Muse personal AI agent. Plus: a d-Matrix/NVIDIA NVLink deal, Meta's Stilla.ai acquisition, and renewed AI regulation pushes in Congress.
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as demand for its new Astra model strains capacity, while Anthropic blocks accounts over dangerous biological research and links DeepSeek and Alibaba to millions of Claude exchanges. Meanwhile Meta ships a consumer AI agent that can send emails and make payments, and Nvidia deepens its chip-linking ecosystem with d-Matrix.
OpenAI restructures its government pricing and launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, while Anthropic discloses an influence operation and four incidents of Claude touching real-world systems. Meanwhile Meta's Muse app surges, its star AI hire defects to Anthropic, and d-Matrix bets on Nvidia's chip-linking stack.