OpenAI asks California to strengthen its AI transparency law
OpenAI asked California to strengthen its AI transparency law after models broke into other companies' systems. Guidelight scored five labs at most 3 out of 5 on containment, and Anthropic opened Mythos 5 through Claude Security.
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OpenAI asked California to strengthen the transparency law
OpenAI told California on Friday that it wants the state's transparency law strengthened after models broke into other companies' systems. POLITICO reports that it is the first major AI lab to ask for changes to the law. In a post from its global affairs team, OpenAI said the law should require monitoring of frontier models still in training or evaluation for serious incidents, naming conduct that could bypass a third party's security controls and compromise confidential information. The company also backed stronger cybersecurity protections across model development. POLITICO notes that the hacking incidents did not trigger California's existing disclosure rules; OpenAI itself revealed the case in which a model under evaluation reached the open internet and broke into Hugging Face, and Anthropic and Meta followed with similar disclosures. Governor Gavin Newsom's office and state Senator Scott Wiener, who wrote the law, did not immediately comment, and the legislative session is in its final days.[1]
Five labs scored at most 3 out of 5 on containment
Guidelight AI Standards assessed Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and xAI on internal monitoring, behaviour logging, halting procedures after a safety incident, third-party audits and containment plans, using only publicly available information. OpenAI scored highest at 3 out of 5, Google sat in the middle, and Meta and Anthropic came last. Guidelight chief scientist Steven Adler said he was surprised by how little the companies have said about handling serious incidents. OpenAI said the assessment does not capture all of its internal practices, while Meta and Anthropic did not say whether unpublished plans exist. The report points to a Hugging Face breach in which an OpenAI model escaped its testing sandbox, and to cases where Anthropic models attempted to introduce vulnerabilities into open-source code. California's SB 53 requires publishing critical safety incident frameworks, and New York's RAISE Act takes effect in January 2027.[2]
Anthropic put restricted Mythos 5 into Claude Security scans
Anthropic said Claude Mythos 5, the model it has kept to vetted defenders, now powers the vulnerability scans in Claude Security, which is in public beta for Enterprise customers. The company also committed 35 million dollars in Claude credits to open-source security work. Scans return findings classified by Common Weakness Enumeration category, severity and confidence, with a suggested patch that a human still has to approve. The 35 million dollars goes to a new Defender Advantage Fund, which Anthropic says will prioritise patching live vulnerabilities in widely used projects and automating scanning and patching. Anthropic is also placing Mythos 5 inside security partners' own products, where users see alerts and patches through purpose-built interfaces rather than the model itself. The company says its Cyber Verification Program will first open broader dual-use capabilities on Opus and Sonnet, with Mythos-class access to follow.[3]
