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OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an account of what the company calls the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, using it to argue that organisations need to uplevel their security practices with what he terms unprecedented speed. He writes that he has spoken with many organisations since the incident and found a consistent theme running through those conversations: leaders know they must move faster than their current security programmes allow.
Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying
Anthropic dominated Vercel's AI Gateway spending in July, pulling in 65.1 percent of total revenue while accounting for only 30 percent of tokens processed. Its tokens cost 4.4 times as much as those from competing providers on average. The article Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI is shipping a version of ChatGPT tailored to users aged 13 to 17, as reported by Associated Press and the New York Times. The teen variant has stricter safeguards around topics like suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and sexual content. The chatbot is also prohibited from pretending it has emotions. When it comes to homework, the AI won't serve up ready-made answers. Instead, it responds with follow-up questions meant to nudge students toward working through problems themselves. OpenAI doesn't check age directly.
Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips
An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rhetoric to buy himself a regulatory advantage. Amodei counters that regulation can also rein in corporate power, and that open models alone just shift power toward the players with the most computing muscle. The article Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips appeared first on The Decoder.
Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $65 billion, a sevenfold increase in one year, according to Bloomberg. The company could go public as early as fall 2026 at a $1 trillion valuation, potentially beating OpenAI to market. The article Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion appeared first on The Decoder.