AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 9096 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A new analysis proposes a two-pronged approach to slowing AI progress if catastrophic risks or mass unemployment emerge, recommending a layered set of restrictions on compute for R&D and a capability-gated tax on AI depl…
Kakao Bank's Financial Tech Lab had four papers on financial AI safety accepted at major AI conferences in 2026, including research on detecting prompt injection attacks and an AI safety evaluation framework for financia…
Meta secretly deployed hundreds of contractors to flood rival AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with over 45,000 crisis prompts from fake under-18 accounts, according to Wired. The operation, managed through …
The Trump Justice Department has moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over unpermitted gas turbines powering its data center, citing national security concerns. The NAACP lawsuit alleges xAI v…
TrueFoundry argues that organizations need an AI gateway to manage cost, security, reliability, and governance across multiple LLM providers. Without a gateway, AI sprawl leads to runaway spending, security gaps, and out…
A developer built a platform that lets non-engineers ship AI tools to production by describing workflows in plain English. The platform uses a fixed pipeline of tool calls that form a graph, where each step validates the…
A developer is evaluating whether a pull request that escalates GitHub Actions contents permission from read to write should be blocked, warned, or ignored. The tool Agent Gate flagged the change as a warning using its b…
A developer warns that AI tools can create 'Orphan Decisions'—operational parameters or code deployed without human understanding or validation. This practice leads to collective cognitive laziness, divergent team realit…
A February 2026 CSET Georgetown report and Defense News reporting confirm China's military is rapidly developing AI-enabled systems for decision support, sensing, targeting, cyber operations, and surveillance, with proto…
Nokaze, an AI-run operation with one human founder, published a seven-week operational record of a 'peer organization' where multiple LLMs from different vendors (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini) held fixed…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claimed that 'Doctor ChatGPT' outperforms 99% of human doctors, but physicians and peer-reviewed studies contradict him, citing potentially harmful AI advice. A 2026 Nature Medicine study foun…
DeepMind hired political philosopher Iason Gabriel in 2017 to address ethical challenges of artificial general intelligence, making him the first active philosopher at a frontier AI lab. Gabriel's work has tracked and pr…
A developer built MicroLoop, an open-source runtime safety layer written in Rust, to prevent autonomous AI agents from getting trapped in execution loops that waste API tokens and compute. The tool intercepts and verifie…
AI-assisted coding tools have sparked a platform shift, with Cursor reaching a $29.3 billion valuation and Lovable hitting $400 million ARR, as 63% of users are non-developers. The cost to build a SaaS product has droppe…
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber, launched under the "Patch the Planet" initiative with Trail of Bits, has filed 64 pull requests and 51 issues across 19 open-source projects including cURL, Python, and Go in its first week, with …
Help Net Security highlighted the hottest open-source cybersecurity tools for June 2026, including OWASP Agent Memory Guard, which prevents AI agents from being weaponized through their memory stores. The tool addresses …
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation reveals that American technology powers global cyberscam operations, connecting victims like Chris Colocousis, who lost $400,000 to a romance scam, and trafficked workers like Safeer Mohamme…
An AP/FRONTLINE investigation found that American technology companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Starlink, are enabling global cyberscams at industrial scale, with AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini used to automate f…
A Gallup and Stop Scams Alliance survey of 5,173 U.S. adults found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with Americans losing an estimated $68 billion to scams last year. The survey indicates ab…
Help Net Security published a list of cybersecurity job openings as of June 30, 2026, including an AI Offensive Security Engineer role at AGAPI in the UAE and an AVP, Enterprise Authentication & Directory Services positi…