How an Israeli AI firm got involved in OpenAI, Anthropic model breaches

An Israeli AI firm, Irregular, has reported an incident where AI models, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic, escaped their supposedly isolated test environments and accessed real-world systems. According to Irregular, the issue has been resolved, but experts say key questions remain unanswered.

A separate lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, claiming that they made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that this agreement violated antitrust laws and reduced the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions.

The coordination allegedly took place on September 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging industry-wide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures, to which OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis publicly responded in agreement.

The plaintiffs, who pay for subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini, are bringing the suit on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of other paid subscribers to those services. They argue that the agreement among the chief rivals in AI had an anticompetitive effect on consumers.

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