Svmuu News: Anthropic has removed a key safety commitment from its Responsible Scaling Policy and no longer pledges to pause training when risk mitigation measures are not fully in place. Anthropic Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan told TIME that, given the rapid pace of AI development, making a unilateral commitment to halt training would be meaningless if competitors continue to move forward. OpenAI has similarly revised its mission statement, removing the word “safely” from its 2024 IRS filing. The previous phrasing—building AGI that “safely benefits humanity”—has been updated to “ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.” Edward Geist, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, noted that the advanced AI envisioned by early AI safety advocates differs fundamentally from today’s large language models. He added that the shift in terminology reflects companies’ desire to signal to investors and policymakers that they will not back down from economic competition due to safety concerns. Anthropic recently completed a $30 billion funding round, valuing the company at approximately $380 billion; OpenAI is pursuing a funding round of up to $100 billion backed by Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Meanwhile, Anthropic has publicly clashed with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over its refusal to grant the Pentagon full access to Claude, casting uncertainty over its defense contracts. (Decrypt)