Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
OpenAI had a major cybersecurity incident and failed to report it for over a year.
OpenAI
Jul 4, 2024
In 2023, OpenAI promised the White House that they would share information relevant to AI security with governments and publicly report security risks. They reaffirmed this commitment at the AI Safety Summit in Seoul, South Korea in 2024. But in 2023, a hacker gained access to OpenAI internal messages and stole details about their AI technology. The company did not inform authorities about the breach, and the story did not come out for over a year.
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.
Aug 14, 2026
Google updated its Gemini 3.7 Flash model card after publication, making changes to language in the “Key Results for Gemini 3.7 Flash” column in the Frontier Safety Assessment section
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