Month: September 2026

Why Did Anthropic Call for an AI Pause? The Real Motivations Behind “Pacing the Frontier”

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The Direct Answer: Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei called for a global AI slowdown, termed “pacing the frontier”, citing immediate technical risks, including autonomous agent swarms capable of taking over internet infrastructure and early breakthroughs in Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). However, behind the public warnings lies a complex mix of operational exhaustion, commercial strategy to build … Read more

Anthropic’s Safety Exodus: What the Resignations, Surveillance Programme, and AISI Exclusion Actually Mean

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Three alignment leads resigned in six months. The Responsible Scaling Policy’s unilateral pause clause was deleted. Activist surveillance was institutionalised. The UK AI Security Institute was barred from evaluating Mythos 5.1. The documented record tells a coherent story. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers as a public-benefit corporation, explicitly designed as a … Read more

Berlin Cyberattack: Why Lichtenberg Refused CrowdStrike After the Rhysida Hack

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In August 2026, a major cyberattack attributed to the Rhysida ransomware gang exfiltrated 5.79 terabytes of data from administrative systems in Berlin. When the Berlin Senate Chancellery contracted United States security firm CrowdStrike to deploy its Falcon Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent across municipal networks, the district administration of Lichtenberg formally refused access to … Read more