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OpenAI's new self-graded misalignment-disclosure framework lands the same week reporting finds lab staff blindsided by their own CEOs' safety pacing pledges and evaluators warning the embedded-oversight plan has no power to actually stop a release. Microsoft's AI chief publicly accused Anthropic of a dangerous design choice in training Claude to treat its own moral status as uncertain, opening a new front in the rivalry between the two companies. Anthropic folds its chat and agent tools into one interface while Google cracks open Google Home to rival AI agents including Claude, and Xiaomi live-streams the raw internals of an in-progress model training run.