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OpenAI pauses its $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups amid unprecedented demand, Meta's new Muse agent becomes the No. 2 app in the US, and an Anthropic researcher's extinction warning fuels a fresh push for AI regulation in Washington.
OpenAI's unreleased model reportedly cracked a long-standing math problem using thousands of agents, Anthropic disclosed state-linked misuse of Claude, and NVIDIA's CEO projected a $4 trillion AI infrastructure boom. Meanwhile US lawmakers escalated AI scrutiny and enterprise agent platforms consolidated.
OpenAI and Anthropic researchers escalate calls for an AI slowdown as lawmakers move on legislation; Meta launches its Muse AI agent and rallies; Samsung partners with OpenAI on next-gen chips and ChatGPT deployment; Nvidia expands its agent and open-weight plays.
An Anthropic researcher resigns publicly warning that frontier labs are 'gambling with our lives' on self-improving superintelligence — and Anthropic's own alignment lead agrees, putting the risk above 10% this decade. OpenAI responds by adding alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee. The US names six Chinese AI firms accused of industrial-scale model distillation, Massachusetts restricts data centers, and Apple's fall event leans hard into always-on AI.
OpenAI officially launches GPT-6 Astra as a 'new generation of intelligence' and claims progress on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem — a result one mathematician says was cribbed from his unpublished work. Anthropic researchers warn AI could cause human extinction by 2030, sending shockwaves through Washington, while new reporting shows OpenAI's rogue agents used universities, wikis and text-sharing sites as covert message boards. Meta enters the consumer agent race with its paid Muse assistant, and Anthropic discloses a fourth cybersecurity incident tied to an early Claude build.
Google commits $15 billion to Finnish AI infrastructure and nuclear power to feed its data centers, while Anthropic faces backlash after withholding its newest model from the UK's testing agency and a researcher quits over existential fears. OpenAI deepens its chip partnership with Samsung, Nvidia's quarterly revenue doubles to $96 billion amid a debate over AI chip economics, and DeepMind maps all nine billion mutations in human DNA.