The U.S. White House paused the deployment of frontier AI models, including Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, citing a reported 'jailbreak' where the AI could identify and fix security vulnerabilities in code. Anthropic has been working with the Trump Administration to resolve the issue, but experts argue that the problem is fundamental—AI either can write secure code or it cannot, making a fix impossible without undermining its defensive capabilities.
White House Pauses AI Deployment
LWiAI Podcast #253 covers Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, and Hugging Face hack
The 253rd episode of the LWiAI podcast, recorded on July 29, 2026, summarizes major AI developments from the previous week. Hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris discuss significant model releases, business partnerships, open-source projects, and safety incidents.
Dario Amodei calls for pacing AI frontier; Anthropic commits to embedded evaluators
Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that the rate of AI capability improvement must be slowed to allow for necessary alignment and safety work. He proposes three measures, unilaterally committing to the first: the adoption of embedded third-party evaluators.
Anthropic proposes 'Pace the Frontier' plan with embedded evaluators
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' calling for a slowdown in AI capability improvements. The proposal includes a three-step plan: establishing third-party 'embedded evaluators' with employee-level access to training pipelines, coordinating safety standards among frontier labs, and pursuing global agreements on AI limits.
Jacob Coxon resigns from Anthropic warning of imminent human extinction risk
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned in protest, warning that AI labs are racing toward superintelligence while gambling with human survival. His departure triggered a "preference cascade" among employees at major labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, leading to widespread coverage by mainstream media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and BBC.
OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki warns of imminent recursive self-improvement and inadequate monitoring
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has published an essay warning that machines meaningfully smarter than humans are coming within our lifetime, driven by a strong expectation of sustained progress toward recursive self-improvement (RSI). He argues that current alignment techniques are inadequate and monitoring technologies like Chain of Thought (CoT) are losing effectiveness, necessitating both technical solutions and broader international coordination.