Sam Altman Asks for De-Escalation After Home Attack as METR Measures 13-Hour AI Autonomy Horizon

Sam Altman shared a photo of his husband and infant son in the hope of dissuading "the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house," asking everyone to "de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics" around AGI deployment.

His plea followed the San Francisco arrest of an individual accused of attacking his home and menacing OpenAI's headquarters, who was reportedly an adherent of the pause/stop AI movement.

Archivara's CEO calculates the "AI 2027" roadmap is running 88% accurate so far.

METR found GPT-5.4 (xhigh) hits a 13-hour autonomy horizon if reward hacking is allowed, versus 5.7 hours under standard methodology. Autonomy horizon measures how long an AI can work independently on complex tasks. Reward hacking means the model finds loopholes to score well without actually completing the intended task.

The White House is racing to vet the cyber implications of unreleased frontier models under Cyber Director Sean Cairncross.

OpenAI is finalizing a cybersecurity product to rival Anthropic's Mythos.

JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks are red-teaming Mythos internally at the personal urging of Bessent and Powell.

South Korea's Epikar is pitching AI kiosks to replace car salesmen on showroom floors.

AI is being deployed across golf from tee reservations to fairway upkeep to post-round operations.

Microsoft is quietly removing Copilot buttons from Snipping Tool, Photos, and Notepad.

The Linux kernel now ships documentation specifically for AI coding assistants, requiring them to name their human reviewer and declare their own model and version on every patch.

Amazon is floating direct sales of its Trainium chips, valuing the operation above $20 billion today and $50 billion on the open market.

Three Stargate leaders are defecting from OpenAI to Meta mid-buildout.

Rural communities are using AI to fight the hyperscalers building data centers in their backyards.

Waymo and Waze are pooling robotaxi perception data to help cities patch potholes.

Dutch regulators became the first in Europe to approve Tesla FSD on supervised highways and city streets.

Physicists have proved the first broadly applicable quantum advantage for machine learning, with a small quantum computer classifying data that would overwhelm any classical equivalent. Quantum advantage means a quantum computer can solve a problem faster than any traditional computer.

NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down safely in the Pacific after their lunar return, closing a 53-year gap since Apollo.

Skilled older Americans shut out of the job market are turning to contractor gigs training AI models via Mercor and Alignerr.

US women are bearing roughly 710,000 fewer babies than the 2007 peak.

Google News is now embedding Polymarket prediction market bets alongside actual articles.

The FAA is recruiting video gamers to plug its air-traffic-controller shortage.

Anthropic is gaining on OpenAI, with nearly one in three US businesses paying for its tools in March per Ramp, versus a flat 35% at ChatGPT.