AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 9339 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Organizations are undermining themselves by treating ungrounded, LLM-generated numbers and synthetic research as facts, a phenomenon dubbed 'LLM-powered self-sabotage.' Executives demand AI adoption due to competitive pr…
North Korea commissioned its largest warship, the 5,000-tonne Choe Hyon destroyer, on June 23, with Kim Jong Un declaring an end to decades of naval stagnation. South Korean officials and analysts believe the vessel was …
China's Zhipu AI released its open-weight GLM-5.2 model, which researchers claim matches Anthropic's Mythos in certain cybersecurity bug-finding scenarios, narrowing the gap between Chinese and US AI capabilities. The US…
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing a reported jailbreak, marking the first forced removal of a widely-deployed frontier model by export …
Chinese AI systems have matched the performance of Anthropic's Mythos model in cybersecurity scenarios, with Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model surpassing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in some bug-finding benchmarks. The…
More Britons are retraining as bricklayers as AI threatens white-collar jobs, drawn by high earnings of up to £90,000 a year and a severe skills shortage in construction. The UK needs an extra 25,000 bricklayers to meet …
Abram Demski reports using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 to conduct 'vibe research' on logical induction as a model for AI trustworthiness and recursive self-improvement, collaborating with Anson Berns to formalize results…
Marcus Hutter and an author published an accessible introduction to real hypercomputation in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, focusing on applications to algorithmic information theory and building foundation…
Cursor data shows a rising share of AI-generated code changes reaching production without manual review, signaling a shift in software development practices. GitLab's AI Accountability Report reveals 80% of organizations…
Researchers at ETH Zurich argue in a new ICML 2026 position paper that AI safety studies on anthropomorphic behaviors like deception and scheming lack rigorous evidence, risking misallocated resources and false conclusio…
A Virginia woman discovered a Flock Safety Raven audio surveillance device installed in her front yard without notice, despite the city's approval of 75 such sensors not including her property. The Roanoke Police Departm…
Russian Zala drones equipped with Nvidia TX2-A AI chips are attacking Ukraine, using onboard artificial intelligence to recognize and target vehicles, people, and military markings. The AI allows the drones to pre-sort t…
An outsider who recently completed the CEA Career Bootcamp shares observations about the EA/AI safety ecosystem, noting its vibrancy but also uneven accessibility, particularly for those outside Western, research-oriente…
A survey explores non-extinction scenarios for artificial superintelligence (ASI), including alignment failure leading to a 'prison' of geniuses, and strategic nuclear exchange triggered by ASI races. The author assigns …
Snyk's Evo Agentic Development Security platform went GA on June 29, revealing that one in 12 developers with active MCP server connections has a high or critical security finding. Scanning nearly 10,000 developer enviro…
Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM 5.2 model scored 39% F1 on IDOR detection in Semgrep's benchmark, beating Claude Code's 32% at a cost of $0.17 per vulnerability found. The test, designed to separate model performance from har…
Developers using OpenAI Codex face a security risk due to the lack of a native ignore file to exclude sensitive files from AI agents. An open GitHub issue (#2847) highlights the need for a deterministic mechanism to prev…
Anthropic released its most capable AI models, Fable and Mythos, on June 9, but three days later a U.S. government export-control directive forced the company to suspend access for all customers globally, as it could not…
Students worldwide are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on exams, prompting countries like China, the UK, South Korea, and Taiwan to tighten screening and review policies. Experts warn that undetected cases are li…
Researchers at the University of Ottawa, led by Dr. Karim Alghoul, developed UbiMyTherapist, a proactive AI therapist for wearables that uses heart rate variability, speech tone, and text to detect emotional distress. Pr…