Dario Amodei called for slower AI progress and outside reviewers inside Anthropic. Sam Altman has now publicly backed pacing and promised employee-like access for independent evaluators at OpenAI. Hugging Face announced an Open Alignment Initiative and asked to join Amodei’s review program. Congress is debating safety obligations while Trump stresses competition with China, leaving Washington to decide how voluntary commitments could become enforceable rules.
The New Mexico Supreme Court held Santa Fe defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt and fined him $5,000 in a September 9 order over a murder-appeal brief containing witnesses fabricated by ChatGPT. The filing attributed false testimony to four nonexistent people and to real witnesses, the court said in its order. The court struck all earlier briefs, appointed a public defender and ordered the appeal briefed again.
The sanction changes who will represent Oscar Renee Sandoval in his pending appeal but does not disturb his murder conviction.
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* New Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered Stephen Aarons
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---CLAUDE--- score: 92 trend: up change: +1 + Fable 5.1 launched September 1 across the major clouds, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25 per million tokens. + Eligible customers can use Fable 5 and 5.1 with zero data retention while Enterprise Frontier Safeguards is being prepared. - EFS rolls out later this fall, with customer storage costs and human review remaining the buyer's responsibility. - Anthropic's August 31 security update still described its incident investigation and independent METR review as unfinished. ---CHATGPT--- score: 86 trend: up change: +2 + GPT-6 Astra began rolling out September 3 for coding, research, computer use and complex business tasks. + Astra led the September 5 Code Arena WebDev table, providing external evidence beyond OpenAI's launch benchmarks. - Access remains phased, and the launch release notes explicitly say Astra is not yet generally available. - OpenAI's system card records weaker reasoning monitorability despite improved compliance with safety restrictions. ---GEMINI--- score: 84 trend: up change: +5 + Gemini 3.8 Flash reached general availability September 2 with a one-million-token context window. + Introductory pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31. - Standard token prices double January 1, and Google says complex tasks can consume more tokens than with 3.7 Flash. - Flash Cyber is restricted to trusted defenders through Fairwind, so its capabilities do not belong in a general-access comparison. ---MISTRAL--- score: 81 trend: down change: -1 + Vibe Enterprise remains excluded from model training by default, with organization controls for administrators. + Standard Vibe and API customers can opt out of training without buying Enterprise. - Vibe and API training controls are separate, adding a configuration check for businesses using both products. - Zero data retention requires approval and covers eligible stateless API calls, excluding Vibe chats and stateful agents. ---GLM--- score: 57 trend: up change: +3 + First-half 2026 revenue reached RMB954 million, up 399.7%, with platform and API services contributing 86.5%. + GLM-5.3-Flash weights remain available under MIT, preserving a permissive route to independent deployment. - First-half adjusted net loss widened 12.1% to RMB1.964 billion, despite the decline in reported net loss. - Gross margin fell to 26.4% from 50.0%, limiting the financial benefit of rapid API growth. ---QWEN--- score: 56 trend: up change: +4 + Qwen3.8-Max-0902 shipped September 2 through Alibaba Cloud with a one-million-token context window. + The model placed fourth in the September 5 Code Arena WebDev table, with its result still marked preliminary. + The current Max weight license exempts qualifying internal use from its separate commercial-license requirement. - Specified model-service and AI work-assistant businesses above $50 million in annual group revenue need a separate license. ---MUSE--- score: 54 trend: up change: +6 + Muse Spark 1.3 shipped September 2 in Muse Code and Meta Model API for longer coding and agent tasks. + Published token rates remain $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. - The live benchmark page differs from the September 2 snapshot, so the earlier 42% task-cost advantage is not a current comparison. - Meta still lists Spark open weights as future work, leaving the new release dependent on hosted access. ---KIMI--- score: 41 trend: up change: +2 + Moonshot reportedly filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO targeting about $3 billion, improving its potential financing options. + K3's license exempts internal use and access through official products or certified inference partners from specified commercial conditions. - The IPO proceeds and proposed cloud revenue-sharing deals remain uncompleted transactions. - K3's published repository is 1.56TB, keeping independent deployment a substantial infrastructure commitment. ---GROK--- score: 35 trend: up change: +4 + Grok Bot for Enterprise launched September 3 with access, network and audit controls. + Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers received a two-week trial covering colleagues without existing seats. + SpaceXAI published a September 1 account of external biological safety testing, adding evidence for specialist procurement reviews. - Trial access and narrow safety evaluations do not establish long-term operating cost or safety across business workflows. ---DEEPSEEK--- score: 17 trend: up change: +1 + DeepSeek's status page reported no incidents from August 29 through September 6, a limited positive reliability signal. + Current documentation supports Responses and Anthropic API formats, reducing integration work for existing agent tools. - V4-Flash still costs $0.44 per million uncached input tokens and $1.32 per million output tokens during weekday peak hours. - Off-peak rates are half those prices, leaving cost dependent on scheduling, while the vision endpoint remains experimental.
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