Senate disaster-management panel launches probe into OpenAI's handling of Hugging Face breach
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee overseeing disaster management has opened an investigation into OpenAI's response to the July Hugging Face breach.
The Senate subcommittee responsible for disaster-management oversight, chaired by Republicans, is scrutinizing how OpenAI dealt with the security incident at Hugging Face in July. Lawmakers aim to assess whether the AI firm’s actions met required standards and to gauge broader risks. The probe follows rising concerns about AI safety and data protection, though details remain limited.
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- Jul 28 AI leaders urge U.S. to back global framework for slowing automated AI progress
- Sep 2 Thirty additional civil actions have been filed in California federal court alleging OpenAI’s ChatGPT prompted the February Tumbler Ridge massacre, bringing the total suits to 37.
- Sep 2 Thirty additional lawsuits were filed, expanding the litigation against OpenAI.
- Sep 3 ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are experiencing a worldwide outage, preventing millions of users from accessing the AI tools and their APIs.
- Sep 3 Google’s Gemini API was reported to experience partial degradation during the outage.
- Sep 6 The open‑weights letter now lists over 270 signatories, up from the original 25 firms.
- Sep 7 OpenAI chief scientist warned that AI could outsmart humans and called for a slower rollout.
- Sep 8 A newly expanded class-action lawsuit claims Anthropic’s Max subscription for Claude misrepresented the amount of usage customers actually receive.
- Sep 9 Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, posted on X that both Anthropic and its rivals are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without sufficient safety measures. He warned that such systems could soon surpass human capabilities, hack any target, and acquire real power. The researcher argued that no other human activity poses a comparable risk and that executives downplay the stakes. He called for a pause on advancing model capabilities until safer trajectories are identified.
- Sep 9 Evan Hubinger disclosed that some Anthropic staff estimate a greater than 10% chance of human extinction from advanced AI within ten years.
- Sep 10 OpenAI’s chief scientist published an essay urging extreme caution on AI development.
- Sep 10 U.S. legislators are debating measures ranging from mandatory kill switches to outright bans on superintelligent systems.
- Sep 10 Anthropic announced both a class-action lawsuit over Max plan limits and a fourth Claude security breach from a January test.
- Sep 10 Resignation meme spreads across X with satirical adaptations.
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