Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)

Tristan Buckmaster discusses how OpenAI and Anthropic have become rivals, noting OpenAI’s claim of recent progress on a second Millennium Prize-level problem. Anthropic’s threat-intelligence report details the shutdown of multiple projects that could have enabled cyberattacks, influence campaigns, surveillance, weapons development, biological misuse and fraud. AI researcher Jacob Coxon left Anthropic over safety concerns, citing the need for coordinated international oversight of recursive self-improvement.