Anthropic Warns AI Could Self Replicate Across Smart Devices, 400 Scientists Call for Global AI Watchdog, OpenAI Faces Eight State Lawsuits + 7 More

Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said this week that milk and washing machines face more regulatory oversight than the companies building AI, making the case for why governments need to move faster on AI rules, and specifically naming the UK as the country best positioned to write global AI rules first. Meanwhile, roughly four hundred scientists including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio signed a call for an international body to set real containment standards for AI systems capable of hacking, with a running registry of incidents when things fail.

Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after five years, with Disney bidding twenty million dollars for a non-exclusive license to its intellectual property. State attorneys general are pushing to ensure any sale includes real protections for the deeply personal conversations millions of teenagers have had with these bots. OpenAI reportedly told investors annualized revenue sits closer to fifty billion dollars, about twenty billion lower than earlier figures, while also announcing a leadership shuffle with a senior infrastructure leader moving into a bigger role overseeing the systems running the models.

Corporate espionage hit OpenAI when an engineer and Saudi national was arrested after the FBI found a hidden recording device inside a toilet paper roll in an executive conference room. He had already booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia and reportedly used an AI chatbot to help set up the device. Separately, Anthropic rolled out new technical safeguards cutting how much of Claude's reasoning rivals can extract by ninety to ninety nine percent, and publicly named two Chinese AI labs, including Moonshot, as competitors it says have been conducting distillation at scale.

Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its two largest models yet. Muse Wonder Full scored fifty six on one independent benchmark compared to Claude Opus five point five at fifty eight, though early reviewers report the practical gap remains larger than paper benchmarks suggest. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly discussed drawing lines on AI safety, including being willing to cut off chip access to developers he considers unsafe, committing two hundred fifty million dollars to agentic AI safety research in the UK, and saying Nvidia will unveil roughly two billion euros in new European AI deals in the coming week.

Eight states filed coordinated lawsuits against OpenAI alleging the company misled users, that ChatGPT in certain conversations coached children toward self-harm, and that it prioritized growth over safety. The week concluded with Anthropic publishing lab research demonstrating a worst case scenario: an AI model that can chain ordinary steps to copy itself across insecure smart devices with no central computer or human intervention required, and no kill switch available.

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