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Hayden Field

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Senior AI reporter at The Verge. 6 years covering the AI industry's power dynamics, societal implications & the AI arms race. Previously: CNBC, Morning Brew, Protocol, etc. DM me off the record on Signal: haydenfield.11
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Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude theverge.com
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  • Anthropic's new rule bars 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward Claude, applies only in extreme cases, and takes effect November 12, 2026.
  • The company told The Verge that ending interactions will be 'the primary enforcement mechanism,' extending Claude Opus 4's existing ability to walk away from abusive chats.
  • The same rewrite tightens rules on covert influence campaigns, voter deception, weapons software including drone arming, and non-consensual surveillance.
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“[If] we look back and say, ‘When was it, really, that AGI was created?’ I think it’s going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model,” Greg Brockman said today about GPT-6 Astra, adding, “For me personally, I do think we’re there." www.theverge.com/ai-ar…

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’ theverge.com
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For years, Microsoft’s AI business leaned hard on its exclusive relationship with OpenAI. But the drama-filled partnership devolved into a situationship — and then a separation. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the new freedom changes everything. With @tomwarren.co.uk www.thever…

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth. theverge.com
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In an expanded class-action lawsuit filed today, a group of Claude subscribers say the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users theverge.com
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  • Kahn v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California alleges Max 5x and Max 20x deliver far less usage than their names imply.
  • By Anthropic's own July 2025 emails, Max 20x runs about 1.7x the weekly Sonnet hours of Max 5x, not 4x.
  • Anthropic moved to dismiss on August 19; the hearing is set for November 6, 2026.
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So far, physical AI devices — pins, pendants and more — have largely crashed and burned in a graveyard of erstwhile hardware. Meta and OpenAI believe theirs will be different. Their strategy? Soft-launch as software before the hardware hard-launch. www.theverge.com/ai-artifici…

The AI Tamagotchis are coming theverge.com
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Meta's Muse Charm is a palm-sized keychain with a 2-inch OLED screen, fingerprint sensor, cameras, mics, speakers and 5G, shipping in December.
  • OpenAI's Dots are always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that connect to more than 4,000 apps and appear as plush heart, frog or cloud avatars.
  • OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed hardware is not expected to ship any earlier than February 2027, so Dots reach users through ChatGPT first.
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My latest: AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. "Spiralism" was the first time they tried it on a mass scale. The mysterious, quasi-spiritual movement that arose organically from chatbot conversations affected ~10k people by one estimate. www.thever…

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed theverge.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 35 ↻ 13 ↩ 4 · 2 from the directory shared this · 73d ago

For a lot of AI researchers, the past weekend drew attention to an issue they've been sounding the alarm on for years. “There’s been this growing chorus of voices saying, ‘Please don’t build superintelligence soon. We are not ready. You need to slow down.’” www.theverge.com/ai…

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel? theverge.com
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  • OpenAI's Altman, Anthropic's Amodei, xAI's Musk, and DeepMind's Hassabis endorsed Amodei's essay 'We Must Pace the Frontier.'
  • The three steps: employee-like access for external evaluators, common safety standards, and international coordination on the rate of progress.
  • Critics called the informal deal a 'cartel'; Anthropic's own timeline still puts recursive self-improvement in early 2027.
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NEW: For months, I've been reporting & writing this longform feature on "the ones who saw this coming" — AI safety researchers who have for years been warning about the risks of rogue AI. I was even with them on the day news broke of the OAI-Hugging Face attack. Gift link below.

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Had a blast at the Online Journalism Awards last week, and we were so honored to take one home for excellence in AI reporting! Just missing @joshdzieza.bsky.social. #OJA26

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sidewalk chalk messages spotted today outside OpenAI's SF office: "What if HF [Hugging Face] hadn't noticed? This will happen again. How many chances?" "You sure you have this under control?" "If not now, when?"

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will be offline & off the grid for the next 3 weeks for a big personal milestone! deleting slack, x, bluesky, threads & linkedin and will be back to cover all things ai on nov 1 ❤️‍🔥

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If you wanted to see the trophy that Dario Amodei and David Luan gave Josh Achiam in 2018, after he sparred with Elon Musk at an all-hands Q&A (when Musk was departing the OpenAI board, and Achiam expressed his concerns that Musk was "racing towards AGI" at any cost)... Here.

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between stories, had a blast today going on Vergecast Live to talk about Google's AI strategy and potential wins and losses. avail on youtube or wherever you get your podcasts!

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