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Developments in AI safety and latest research from Anthropic.

OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI Hit by Rare Same-Day Outages as Cloud Causes Remain Unclear

AI outages hit OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI on Thursday, disrupting ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and sparking questions about shared infrastructure.

Nvidia’s PAIR turns idle home PCs into a local AI cluster, linking GPUs and Macs for secure, distributed inference and agent workflows.

An AI outage hit ChatGPT, Grok and Claude at once, disrupting logins, chats and key features across three major chatbot platforms.

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, making a huge open-source AI bet and expanding its reach beyond chips.

Palo Alto Networks reportedly paid $500 million for Console, an AI help desk startup, as it expands Cortex with agentic automation.

OpenAI delayed Astra over safety issues, sparking fears the model’s opaque design could undermine AI safety monitoring.

OpenAI says the Astra model can find and exploit vulnerabilities, but access to its strongest cyber abilities will be limited at launch.

Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 cuts token costs, eases false safety blocks and adds stronger enterprise privacy controls.

Apple says OpenAI may be destroying evidence in its trade secret fight, escalating the lawsuit over an ex-Apple employee’s MacBook.

Apple escalates a trade-secret dispute with OpenAI, alleging a former employee used confidential data and helped destroy evidence.