A TechCrunch investigation reveals that no one outside a tight circle knows how the U.S. government approved OpenAI's frontier model Sol for release. Researchers, policymakers, and even employees at frontier labs admit they cannot explain the process — raising fundamental questions about who gatekeeps AI safety.

OpenAI has published its National Security Principles, outlining how it will approach government partnerships in sensitive areas like cyber defense and biosecurity. The principles include contractual restrictions against mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and high-stakes automated decisions, while emphasizing democratic accountability and human judgment. The company is expanding partnerships with allied nations under the Daybreak cyber program and the GPT-Rosalind biosecurity model.

Meta's AI glasses get a privacy safeguard that disables the camera if the recording LED is blocked, but on the same day it also enables AI to use public Instagram photos and camera roll images unless users opt out, highlighting a fundamental contradiction between hardware privacy and a data-hungry AI strategy.