OpenAI says top AI labs have coordinated on safety for weeks, no antitrust waiver needed
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-16
- OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane said at a press briefing that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have been working together on AI safety for weeks.
- He added that "OpenAI does not see the need for an antitrust waiver" for the three firms to coordinate on safety.
- Gary Marcus reacts: it could be good, but he worries it may be a play to lock out smaller AI companies.
Related event: OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind(6 posts)→
More from Safety
- Inference-only chip proposal would bar RL rollouts for models in training — wfithian · 2026-10-31
- Every Used Codex and Agents to Survive the Railway Credential Breach — every · 2026-10-31
- Researchers debate whether more inference compute can substitute for training compute — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-31
- OpenAI blocks weapons details for teens, adds auto-ending chats fixated on violence — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-10-31
- First machine-checked security proof for end-to-end x86 process execution published — banteg · 2026-10-31
- Dartmouth provost who warned of AI cheating resigns over undisclosed AI use — Ars Technica AI · 2026-10-31