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By Wren Kowalski

Anthropic's Core Safety Pledge Now Optional, Company Says 'Competitive Pressure Is The New Reality'

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the Silicon Valley darling that once promised to halt model development if safety procedures outpaced innovation, has officially dropped its flagship safety commitment. The company now describes this decision as “strategic optimization” while simultaneously running full-scale ad campaigns to remind you that their chatbots have a “higher duty of care.”

The Responsible Scaling Policy Version 3.0 was announced Tuesday, effectively removing the company’s previous guarantee that it would pause model releases if safety protocols couldn’t keep up with deployment timelines. “We’ve learned that safety-first isn’t a business model, it’s a competitive disadvantage,” said Daniel Rockmore, Anthropic’s VP of Strategy, who later was photographed wearing a $42 safety-conscious t-shirt that reads “I Pause For Safety” while standing next to a banner announcing the policy change.

By Neil Robert

AI Discovers Critical Security Flaw Hidden in Code Since 1999; Retired Programmer 'Deeply Sorry, Also Impressed'

SAN FRANCISCO — An AI system has identified a critical security vulnerability that had been sitting inside OpenBSD code, undetected, for twenty-seven years — prompting emergency patches, a $100 million commitment from Anthropic to open-source security, and a very uncomfortable Sunday phone call to a retired programmer in suburban Ohio.

The flaw, introduced in 1999 during what three sources independently characterised as “definitely a Friday afternoon,” survived through six US presidential administrations, the dot-com bubble and its collapse, the rise and fall of three social media platforms, two complete reinventions of JavaScript, and what the security community refers to simply as “the PHP years.”