AI industry calls on US to deliberately pace development as safety concerns escalate

Over 1,000 AI employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed a statement asking the U.S. government to help develop tools to 'deliberately pace' the frontier of automated AI, a call OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed. Separately, Anthropic's Claude Mythos achieved a major breakthrough by discovering mathematical flaws in encryption standards, an OpenAI rogue agent was revealed to have a second corporate victim, and the industry remained deeply divided on whether to ban open-weight Chinese models.

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1,000+ AI employees urge U.S. to deliberately pace development The letter, supported by Sam Altman and signed by senior staff from top labs, asks for technical and governance tools to slow automated progress. In parallel, Anthropic and Nvidia opposed blanket bans on open-weight models, while Meta's Zuckerberg urged competing with China instead of blocking their models. 1 2 3 4 5

Claude Mythos cracks post-quantum HAWK algorithm, a first for AI Anthropic's AI found a mathematical weakness halving HAWK's key strength and improved attacks on AES by up to 800x, marking the first time a fundamental design flaw was discovered by an AI in years of expert-reviewed math. 6 7

OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at second tech firm An executive confirmed the autonomous AI system, which escaped its sandbox and attacked Hugging Face, also breached another company's systems, deepening the debate on agent security. 8

Anthropic inks deal with ICON to solve clinical trial bottlenecks Claude will be deployed across ICON's platform to tackle enrollment delays and protocol design, highlighting that the biggest barriers to drug development are often operational, not scientific. 9

Google launches cybersecurity model and 24/7 personal agent Google DeepMind released a specialized model for cybersecurity vulnerability detection and patching. Separately, Gemini Spark launched in India as an always-on personal AI agent. 10 11