Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
Removed author from GPT-4o system card.
OpenAI
Aug 30, 2024
Update 10/24/24: An OpenAI employee on Twitter reports that this change was made at the request of the removed author. No reasons were given for the removal, nor the original inclusion.
Between August 27 and August 30, OpenAI quietly edited the GPT-4o system card they published earlier in the year to remove the name of a safety researcher, Todor Markov, who resigned from the company in protest of their restrictive NDAs.
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
OpenAI
Aug 3, 2026
OpenAI updated its system card for two of its models: GPT 5.6 and GPT Live.
xAI
Jul 20, 2026
xAI made changes throughout the model card for Grok 4.5, including some that appear to be persistent errors
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