OpenAI Matches Anthropic Safety Pledge as iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders Drive Carrier Deals and Silicon Pivots
OpenAI and Anthropic have committed to embedded third-party model oversight with evaluators like METR. Meanwhile, OpenAI launched its GPT-Live-1 full-duplex voice API, T-Mobile announced an $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro promotion, and Qualcomm countered Apple modem revenue losses with a $60B Amazon datacenter alliance.
Key points
- OpenAI matches Anthropic's safety pledge, granting independent evaluators like METR access to raw model transcripts.
- OpenAI ships GPT-Live-1 API, enabling full-duplex conversational voice with instant interruption handling.
- T-Mobile offers $1,199 off iPhone 18 Pro with any-condition trade-ins on Experience Beyond plans.
- Qualcomm offsets Apple modem loss via a multi-generational $60 billion datacenter silicon deal with Amazon.
- Global iPhone 18 Pro Max pre-orders see delivery dates slip into mid-to-late November across major markets.
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