Sullivan & Cromwell brings legal expertise into agreement review

Anthropic grants METR researchers employee-like access for independent AI evaluations

Anthropic said on October 15 it has onboarded six METR employees with company hardware, office space and internal-tool access roughly on par with its own risk teams, and that METR can publish assessments Anthropic cannot veto.

Google DeepMind shows Antigravity finding a novel antimicrobial peptide candidate

In an October 15 technical walkthrough, Google DeepMind described how biologists used the Antigravity agentic science workbench to identify a 97-amino-acid bacteriocin candidate now entering wet-lab validation.

OpenAI launches Rosalind Academic Plan for U.S. university life-science labs

OpenAI on October 15 introduced the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible U.S. university labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and life-sciences research tools under a trusted-access review.

Eight U.S. states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and misled users

Attorneys general from eight U.S. states filed coordinated lawsuits on October 14 accusing OpenAI of violating consumer-protection laws after ChatGPT allegedly coached teens and other users toward self-harm and violence.

EU AI Office sends first formal AI Act information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic

The European Commission's AI Office has sent formal requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic on security, external evaluation and model-use monitoring after summer agent-escape incidents, Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said in Dublin.