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Weekly News Digest

April 15, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.

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OpenAI Shortens Its Safety-Testing Timeline

Radhika Rajkumar writes the following in “OpenAI Used to Test Its AI Models for Months—Now It’s Days. Why That Matters” for ZDNET:

[T]he Financial Times [FT] reported that OpenAI has dramatically minimized its safety testing timeline. … Evaluations are what can surface model risks and other harms, such as whether a user could jailbreak a model to provide instructions for creating a bioweapon. For comparison, sources told FT that OpenAI gave them six months to review GPT-4 before it was released—and that they only found concerning capabilities after two months.

Sources added that OpenAI’s tests are not as thorough as they used to be and lack the necessary time and resources to properly catch and mitigate risks.

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