AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 9347 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
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…
Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH-funded study from M…
An engineering leader who spent six years leading ML engineering and safety systems at Grab has launched a self-hosted LinkedIn profile. The profile details his work on multimodal moderation systems and building engineer…
About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to buy elections. The pr…
A developer created a new benchmark for evaluating AI agent monitors, finding that standard scoring methods are gameable—a coin flip achieves an F1 score of 0.88. After correcting the metric to reward only detections on …
A developer reports losing $2,890.35 to the fraudulent platform crookcrypto.xyz, which uses a malicious interface to mimic a legitimate DeFi trading portal. The scam lures victims with promises of utility tools like arbi…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual economic report that the artificial intelligence investment boom could end in a prolonged crash, drawing parallels to the late-1990s dot-com bubble. The c…
Workday is pitching its platform as the ideal environment for AI agents to operate near sensitive HR and payroll data, emphasizing security and inference guardrails. The company aims to attract enterprises by offering a …
OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program introduces identity-gated refusal tiers for AI security tools, shifting trust from prompt analysis to authenticated user identity. The system uses claims-based authorization to a…
OpenAI released the system card for GPT-5.6, detailing three model sizes—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Sol described as a 'step function better' than GPT-5.5 but still short of Mythos. The card highlights improved performanc…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns du…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI boom could trigger a global recession and eliminate middle-class jobs, comparing current investment to historical manias like the dotcom bubble. The BIS cautioned…
The US government ordered OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT-5.6 model, allowing access only to government-approved partners. The directive, issued by the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office o…