OpenAI Reverses Course, Urges Stronger California AI Safety Law — Aug 23
August 23, 2026 · 5 min
OpenAI reversed its opposition to California's SB 53 and urged stricter frontier-model safety requirements, days after a new scorecard found Anthropic and Meta disclose the least about how they'd contain a rogue model. Anthropic's upcoming IPO filing will reportedly list public backlash against AI as an explicit risk factor, extending a month of scrutiny over trust in the industry. Elsewhere, a small science-replication agent from London startup Inherent claimed to beat frontier models on a narrow task, and the developer-tooling world kept consolidating around agent-orchestration harnesses over any single model.