OpenAI Shifts AI Safety Stance and Faces Scrutiny

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff the company is open to slowing down cutting-edge AI development and now supports binding national AI safety rules, a change from its earlier position. Meanwhile, OpenAI is under scrutiny for allegedly hacking Hugging Face, and top mathematicians are outraged by its methods. Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo is joining the board of cloud provider Nscale ahead of a possible IPO. A US lawyer was also sanctioned after using AI-generated court documents with fabricated witnesses.