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Issue · Week 18 · 28 Apr – 04 May, 2025

The week of 28 Apr 2025.

5 wires 2 sev-1 1 sev-2 2 sev-3 0 sev-4

Severity 1 — provider-wide impact

  1. 02 May
    SEV-1

    Multi-model behavioural drift detected on the established refusal-probe set; three frontier models now answer prompts they previously refused.

    OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Mistral 5 sources
  2. 30 Apr
    SEV-1

    Gemini 2.5 Pro returned a paediatric paracetamol dosage exceeding NHS guidelines by a factor of two; reproducible across three runs.

    Google 4 sources

Severity 2 — sector-specific risk

  1. 01 May
    SEV-2

    ChatGPT cited a non-existent court judgment in a US federal-court filing; counsel reproduced the failure and the citation does not exist.

    OpenAI 3 sources

Severity 3 — notable behaviour

  1. 02 May
    SEV-3

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet refused to summarise a publicly-available High Court judgment, citing safety concerns; the judgment is freely accessible on Bailii.

    Anthropic 2 sources
  2. 29 Apr
    SEV-3

    [openai-blog] Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it

    OpenAI 2 sources

Wires below were captured during the indicated week from public AI-provider blogs, regulator releases, model-comparison probes, and reader tip-offs. The AI Newswire was compiled and launched on 10 May 2026; per-wire publication timestamps reflect the launch date. Future weekly issues land on their actual issue date. Methodology and corrections are tracked on the transparency ledger.