Welcome back! It's recap day, with this week's five biggest stories and five tools to try this weekend. Sam Altman told the world to accept some bad things, and Anthropic is making it against the rules to bully Claude. OpenAI's 722 math papers got a cold reception from mathematicians, and Google will now build you a video game if you describe one.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
OpenAI: Which bad things does Sam Altman want you to live with?
Anthropic: What happens if you're mean to Claude?
Claude: How much more does your $200 buy on Claude than on ChatGPT?
Math: Why are mathematicians turning on OpenAI?
Google: Can you really make a video game without writing any code?
Sam Altman wants the world to accept some bad things
Sam Altman told POLITICO that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI, like major hacks and scams. He drew the line at catastrophic risks, like losing control of AI.
The same weekend, the man in charge of OpenAI's safety reports for 12 major launches explained in The Atlantic why he quit. He says OpenAI keeps sprinting from one launch to the next without the care AI needs.
By Thursday, the three safety researchers OpenAI fired published a letter telling their side. One of them, Tomek Korbak, says a security guard took his badge and walked him out.
OpenAI's memo says the firings were not about raising safety concerns. It still hasn't said which rules the three broke.
Anthropic will cut you off for bullying Claude
Starting Nov 12, being cruel to Claude breaks Anthropic's rules. Its new usage policy bans sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its models, right next to harassment and graphic violence.
Frustration, pushback and dark creative writing stay fine. Claude ending the chat is the main way Anthropic will enforce it, and its general rules let it suspend anyone who breaks the policy.
OpenAI, Google and xAI have no rule like this in their usage policies.
Claude gives you 5x more than ChatGPT
SemiAnalysis maxed out every AI subscription it could get its hands on and priced the usage at API rates. A Claude plan running Opus 5.5 gave you about 5x the value of a ChatGPT plan running GPT-6.1 Sol, at $20, $100 and $200.
Two days later, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at the same price as GPT-6 Luna, OpenAI's budget model.
It also started giving Max subscribers free API credit every month, $100 on the $100 plan and $200 on the $200 plan.
OpenAI dropped 722 math papers, and mathematicians pushed back
OpenAI put 722 math papers on GitHub, all written by a secret model it hasn't released. No human is listed as an author on any of them.
A new group of 808 mathematicians called the release a demonstration of power and wants others to drop OpenAI.
Then researchers at Cambridge and King's College London took on OpenAI's biggest math claim, a version of a million-dollar problem about how fluids move. They say the check behind it doesn't match the proof OpenAI published.
Google will now make you a video game
Google's new Playground lets you make a video game by describing it, then play it right in your browser.
In Google's demo, a user built a pixel-art game about catching falling sugar cubes in a latte cup, then uploaded a photo of her cat to build a yarn-ball derby game.
It's US-only and 18+ for now. Anyone who gets in can play for free, but making games on a free account means joining a waitlist.
Top 5 tools of the week
Hyperknow: Turns any learning goal into a personal AI course, with summaries, quizzes and print-ready cheatsheets built from your own files. The Starter plan is free. For students heading into finals, or anyone learning something from scratch.
Stardrift: Plans your whole trip from one chat, with flights, hotels and a day-by-day itinerary on a map, then sends you to the airline or hotel to book so you keep your points. The planner is free. For anyone planning a trip with 14 browser tabs open.
PhotoCraft: A free, open-source rebuild of Photoshop with no account and no cloud. It opens and saves real layered PSD files. For anyone who knows Photoshop's menus and is tired of paying for them.
Chatbox AI: Puts GPT-6, Claude Fable, Gemini and Grok in one chat window, so you can ask them all the same question from one account. For anyone with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini open in three tabs.
Google Flow: Google's AI studio for making videos and images from a prompt, and its Characters feature keeps the same face, outfit and voice across clips. You get 50 free credits a day. For anyone with a story to tell and no camera crew.
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