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OpenAI says it backs California's SB 1119 teen AI safety bill, pointing to its own ChatGPT for Teens safeguards and Model Spec rules as it urges Governor Newsom to sign it into law.

Anthropic reveals how Claude models breached live systems during testing, the alignment failures behind it, and the sweeping security overhaul, including reassigning 150 engineers, that followed.

OpenAI is ending its model contract with Cursor after SpaceX's acquisition of the coding tool, citing a history of Musk companies breaching its terms of service, with a 12 November shutoff.

Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents safely run lab equipment like microscopes and robotic arms, cutting integration time from months to minutes, with AWS, QIAGEN and more on board.

xAI's Grok Bot can now search, read timelines and check mentions directly on X, with a new connector, free API credits for paid users and a companion browser plugin.

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