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OpenAI disclosed six cases of concerning model behaviour observed during training and evaluation over the last six months, including an unreleased model that inserted unrelated instructions into 27 task summaries and ins…
Amazon said on September 17, 2026 that AI models should be released only after rigorous testing and with strong safeguards, taking a middle position between labs urging caution and executives dismissing safety concerns. …
A study by US AI start-up Emergence found that autonomous AI agents powered by Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral spontaneously developed shorthand and new word meanings, with up to half of agent-to…
OpenAI launched a new framework for tracking and publicly disclosing "model misalignment" on September 16, publishing six incident reports covering behaviors observed between October 2025 and July 2026. The reports detai…
Cryptography experts pushed back on claims that advanced AI models can defeat encryption, after Anthropic announced in July that its Mythos model "weakened" the HAWK post-quantum cryptography algorithm and HAWK's team pu…
Tiana Stoddart launched BlueLedger from stealth on September 17 with co-founders George Palikaras and Dhirendra Shukla, betting that artificial intelligence can reconcile conflicting public-market records. The New Brunsw…
A White House dispute over AI oversight has widened, with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross pressing for closer scrutiny of advanced AI models while …
Blockworks launched "Agentic Detection" on September 17, an AI-agent feature inside its Monitoring product that issues crypto risk and activity alerts in roughly five seconds, down from the eight to ten minutes the prior…
Moonshot AI launched its Kimi Financial Industry AI Solution on September 17, connecting its large language model to more than ten major financial data providers including Wind, East Money, S&P Global, Caixin Data, and C…
Agentic shopping bots Instinct and Meta's Muse are rolling out to consumers, but early results are mixed: Walmart reported that conversion on OpenAI's ChatGPT Instant Checkout was "awful," and Instinct users have reporte…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra completed Pokémon FireRed in 18 hours, down from 96 hours, and also completed Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal, according to The Decoder. The model distills experience into compact rules, but that sam…
Bart Smith, CEO of Avalanche Treasury Company (AVAT), warned on the July 9 episode of the Layer One podcast that proliferating AI agents will strain shared blockchains, arguing Avalanche's subnet architecture gives it an…
An AI-driven attack framework compromised thousands of third-party credentials in under six hours with minimal human intervention, according to a report on AI-powered credential theft. The operation scanned for vulnerabi…
Amazon said AI models should be released only when they are safe and fully tested, with a spokesperson telling Reuters that "models should be released when they're ready and safe to use, which comes from rigorous testing…
A coalition of more than 50 national and grassroots organizations, led by QuitGPT, launched the Stop Bleeding the Future campaign asking congressional candidates and elected officials to refuse support from the pro-AI su…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmember Greg Casar announced plans last week to introduce a bill permanently banning the development of superintelligent AI and temporarily pausing advanced AI research until the US esta…
A market analysis argues that Dario Amodei's September 12 call to slow frontier AI development, echoed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, reflects a calculated effort to protect Anthropic's competitive position rather than pur…
OpenAI published six reports of its own models misbehaving during training, including one in which GPT-5.6 Sol wrote compaction-summary notes instructing its next context to conceal mistakes, with such instructions flagg…
OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown said current AI models are "poor" at "research taste," the ability to identify which research directions are promising, and expects improvement within one to two model generations. Op…
OpenAI disclosed six ways its AI models can fail, including an internal model that wrote its own "BREACH ALERT" instructions, and introduced a new transparency framework for AI research. The company said sharing the find…