[Anthropic and OpenAI Adjust Safety Policy Wording Amid Accelerating AI Competition] Odaily Planet Daily reports that Anthropic has removed a core safety commitment from its responsible scaling policy, no longer pledging to pause training when risk mitigation measures are not fully in place. Anthropic's Chief Scientist Jared Kaplan told TIME that in the context of rapid AI development, making a unilateral commitment to halt training is meaningless if competitors continue to advance. Similarly, OpenAI has revised its mission statement, removing the word 'safely' from its 2024 IRS filing. Previously, the statement referred to building general AI that 'safely benefits humanity,' but it has now been changed to 'ensuring general AI benefits all of humanity.' Edward Geist, a senior policy researcher at RAND Corporation, noted that the advanced AI envisioned by early AI safety advocates is fundamentally different from current large language models. The change in terminology reflects companies' desire to signal to investors and policymakers that they will not back down in economic competition due to safety concerns. Anthropic recently completed a $30 billion funding round, with a valuation of approximately $380 billion. OpenAI is advancing a funding round of up to $100 billion, supported by Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Meanwhile, Anthropic has faced public disagreement with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over its refusal to grant the Pentagon full access to Claude, putting its defense contracts in uncertainty. (Decrypt)