Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same (Bloomberg)

Sam Altman warned OpenAI staff that the firm is weighing a slowdown of cutting-edge AI research and urged peer companies to adopt similar restraint. Anthropic released a threat-intelligence report detailing how it thwarted multiple misuse attempts—including cyber-attacks, influence campaigns, surveillance, and a Chinese “distillation” scheme that harvested billions of queries to clone Claude. OpenAI simultaneously paused new $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions to preserve system capacity amid soaring demand for its Astra model.