Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
Quietly scrapped policies allowing public inspection of governance documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest rules.
OpenAI
Jan 24, 2024
On January 24, 2024, tech outlet WIRED reported that OpenAI had quietly scrapped policies allowing public inspection of governance documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest rules.
When WIRED reached out to OpenAI to request inspection of these documents, they reported that they were only given access to a narrow financial statement that omitted the majority of their operations.
Meta
Oct 2, 2026
Meta updates and renames its safety framework from the "Advanced AI Scaling Framework" (v2) to the "Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework" (v2.1).
Anthropic
Sep 22, 2026
Anthropic’s release of Opus 5.5 with an “inconclusive” determination for harmful-manipulation.
xAI
Sep 21, 2026
xAI says Grok 4.7 scores below its safety framework’s capability thresholds on dual-use knowledge, but xAI’s safety framework doesn’t provide thresholds.
OpenAI
Sep 9, 2026
Updated the GPT-6 Astra system card, specifically to hedge claims about misalignment.
OpenAI
Aug 18, 2026
OpenAI updated its Model Spec, the document outlining intended model behavior
xAI
Aug 17, 2026
xAI updated Grok 4.6's model card after release. A changelog was included.
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