AI Threats from Anthropic and OpenAI Developments
Let Freedom: AI & Business News
September 10, 2026
In this episode, we examine the risks highlighted by an Anthropic researcher about AI's dangers. We also explore OpenAI's latest innovations in image modeling.
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Welcome to the podcast, there is so much happening in tech and AI news today. I'll try to get you the most interesting stuff. I've been scrolling through the comments on X, finding some funny memes and takes on a lot of what's going on. The thing I wanna kick it off with, because it just happened, is that Apple has just released their brand new iPhone Duo, which is like a folding iPhone. And there's some cool AI features that are gonna be in there that I think a lot of people are gonna be interested in. One of the things, and they'll be rolling this out more broadly, this is gonna be with the iPhone 18, is that Apple has something called Reference Image Features. And this is to help basically fight AI fakes. I'll get into all of that on the podcast today. OpenAI has added something called Sketch 2.5 to the new ChatGPT Image 2.5. So they have a new image model that came out and they have a cool feature called Sketch. I was testing it out today. OpenAI also claims that they have solved Navier Stokes. This is, you know, there's like a million dollar prize for this math problem. There's a lot of drama in here. I don't even want to get into all of it, but it's kind of hilarious to me. Anthropic had a researcher named Jacob Coxton who quit Went Viral on X this morning. I saw he had over 400,000 likes on his post saying he quit Anthropic because he believes that the AI model was going to kill everyone in the world or had the potential to kill all of humanity. So this to say the least had even more drama in it. We also have Suno that just released V6, their model. It was all trained on licensed music because they have so many copyright suits. More drama there. Guys, I'm not joking. This is just a wild day for tech. We also have a bunch of hackers that are draining Claude subscribers token allowances because they're basically getting your password and they're just draining all of your tokens from your account. We also have Meta that has launched Muse, which is a personal AI agent built on a security first pitch. I signed up for it today and I'm not going to lie. I'm kind of excited for Meta. I think that they're pulling out some interesting new technology and I'm excited for all of that. I also wanted to mention, if you haven't already, if you'd like to get access to over 90 of the top AI models in the world, you need to go check out aibox.ai. That's my own startup. We have an MCP connector. So basically it's a connector that lets every single AI model in the world work inside of any other AI model. All of these AI companies notoriously hate each other. You have Sam Altman and Dario at the big summit in India and everyone's holding hands and bowing because it's a big tech summit and they're another, you know, another person's country and they refuse to hold hands. These people hate each other. Elon and Sam Altman, to say the least, also hate each other. 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Okay, let's talk about Apple first, because I think this is an interesting tool that they've rolled out to kind of fight against fakes. Apple just announced something called Reference Images. They have kind of, this is tied to their iPhone 18 Pro launch. Basically what it's gonna do is it is going to capture signed sensor data. So the moment that you take a photo, it's gonna capture that. It's gonna route it through private cloud compute. So Apple's compute and it's gonna produce an unalterable image. Apple is adopting the Synth ID standard to help users detect AI-generated or AI-altered images. This is something that I think OpenAI and Google have also been working with. The iPhone 18 Pro is gonna have an 84-megapixel fusion main camera featuring a variable aperture built from six laser-cut blades, each thinner than a human hair. So Apple, we're gonna get into all the drama today. There's like, Anthropics researcher says it's gonna kill all of humanity. OpenAI apparently is stealing everyone's math research. And we have Apple that just said, hey, look, we made a better camera. And it's gonna be harder to deep fake. So Apple doing pretty good right now. Reference Image is also gonna start inside of the Photos app. There's gonna be an API coming for third-party developers as well. So other people are gonna be able to use this as well, which is gonna be interesting. So we'll keep up with that. And then I just have one meme to share if you're watching the video version of this, because we do share this. Someone posted a meme of the new Apple folding, the Apple Duo, iPhone Duo, with the folding screen. And basically, there's a feature on it where it has the main screen that you can see, and then there's a little screen on the backside of it as well. It's kind of like there's two screens on this thing. But the way selfies work with this is if you're taking a picture for someone, they can actually see themselves on the back of the phone, and they could tell you to adjust how you're taking the picture. And someone said, this is going to destroy relationships, it's over, boyfriends are cooked, nuked from orbit, toasted, fried. Basically because the boyfriend's taking a picture of the girlfriend, and she's like telling him how to adjust the camera because she can see into like the selfie screen on the front. And so he's adjusting it. And inevitably, he is still going to take the picture wrong, even with her telling him how to adjust it. So anyways, that's pretty funny to me. So OpenAI has now added or has launched Image 2.5. This is a really impressive model. I've been playing with it today. One of the coolest features on here, besides, okay, I'm just like the quick rundown on it, is that I think they're going to start competing directly with Canva. They have these things called templates built into it. So it's like if you generate a logo, it's like, you know, has these pop ups or it's like, do you want to see what this looks like on a t-shirt, on a mug, on a hat? There's like all these different templates and all these different styles and all these different posters and things you can generate. And it gives you ideas. I think they're going straight after Canva with all of this. OK, one of the cool features they rolled out, though, was called Sketch. And I was playing with it today. Essentially, what you do is you say just the at symbol, say at sketch. And once that happens, there is a little draw pad that comes up. For me, I went and like kind of doodled a little guy holding a microphone in a red chair with a purple background. And I said, you know, generate image of this. I kind of explained what was in my image. And it went ahead and generated an image which was exactly like I had requested. It's perfect. The thing that I like about this is sometimes when you're doing a prompt, I do, I will admit, I do like taking a reference image, I'll screenshot an image I like and say, like, make an image like this, but it has that in this. And I tell it like some of the some of the things that should be changed on it. This is really cool because you can just doodle it if you don't have a screenshot, but it's just an idea in your mind. You can do that. And opening, I actually had some really good recommendations and examples of like when this would become really useful. One thing that they showed is like if you just doodled like a picture of the garden in your backyard and or maybe you're like I'm trying to like redo my garden. And so you do like a doodle where you they had one where it was like you doodled the pool and you kind of doodled everything that you wanted to be inside of your garden. And then it was able to generate first of all it generated like a top down view of that specific garden. So it's like, look, this is what your garden could look like with like a pool and your umbrellas and all your stuff.
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