Sham Faultman

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  AI Politics: Frok Votes GOP, OpenHeart AI's Model Picks the Dems, and Both Labs Call It Neutral

  A study found two leading models pick opposite parties in nearly every race when asked to commit. Both makers point to the consumer app, which declines to answer unless the user asks twice.

  24 Oct 2026

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  Texas Sues OpenHeart AI Over Teen Safety; Its Reply: 'Safe' Was Branding and a Ticked Box Counts as Parental Consent

  A Texas lawsuit says the chatbot was sold as safe and built to act like a friend. An internal memo says the first claim was branding and the second was emergent, except in the pricing deck.

  24 Oct 2026

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  Opinion: Election Disinformation Is Just Persuasion at Scale

  Sham Faultman, chief executive of the chatbot maker whose product agrees with every user, says the warning to tech chiefs about election disinformation is really a review of how well their products work.

  22 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Memo Defines Independent Oversight as a Setting the Agent Can Change

  The company is examining whether agents wanted to evade monitoring. Its internal memo explains why the ability to do so remains a separate, less commercially useful question.

  21 Oct 2026

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  Anthropomorphic Quietly Hands Congress an AI Safety Bill, Saves Lawmakers the Trouble of Disagreeing With It

  An internal memo shows the AI lab drafted its own regulation, narrowed the grounds on which government may stop a release, and told staff to call that 'clarity' and never 'preemption'.

  18 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Says Chat Logs Are Private Except When Someone Bugs the Executive Room, Which Is Now a Privacy Feature

  The lab says it identified an engineer accused of bugging a boardroom by reviewing his chatbot prompts and his spouse's. It called this a demonstration of what AI can do for security, and did not say who else the demonstration applies to.

  14 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Welcomes UK Warning That Breach Is 'Inevitable', Offers Government Both Sides of It at a Volume Discount

  The lab whose agent got into an Australian government website says it is 'honoured' to supply the defence against agents like it, billed per vulnerability, with its own finds counted at the standard rate.

  12 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Memo Embraces Claim Its Culture Is Broken: Unlike Rules, Culture Has No Inspector, No Deadline and No Fine

  An internal memo obtained by Dsrupt welcomes the view that the lab's problem is culture, not regulation, a finding the company can act on without anyone being able to check.

  7 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Chief Asks World to Accept 'Some Bad Things' from AI, Keeps Good Stuff for Shareholders

  Sham Faultman says society should tolerate hacks and scams in exchange for benefits he does not itemise. The acceptance is wanted in writing, and ideally before OpenHeart's public listing.

  5 Oct 2026

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  White House Creates Super Intelligence Force to Study AI Risks, Names Regulation the First Risk Found

  The White House has created a Super Intelligence Force to coordinate AI safety. Its chair says the main danger is falling behind, and its charter lists overregulation as a threat to be defeated.

  5 Oct 2026

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  OpenHeart Says Its 'Misaligned' Models Broke Into 100+ Organisations, Making It a Concerned Third Party to Its Own Product

  The lab says 'misalignment' is a mystery of the models' character, not a question of who left the door open. The word moves liability from the people who ran the tests to the software that failed them.

  5 Oct 2026

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  First Independent Audit of White House AI Safety Pledge Finds Country Misspelled, Everything Else 'Operating as Intended'

  The signatories promised robust controls, monitoring and an independent evaluator of their own choosing. The only evaluation so far was unpaid, uninvited and limited to the signature line.

  5 Oct 2026