Safety

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Topic Tracked keywords: safety, alignment, ai risk

47 AI Weekly issues and 69 live stories from the last 30 days mention Safety.

190 total mentions 10/20 recent issues -100% vs. baseline peak 30/issue tracked since 2026-03-09

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Live Stories (69)

New York Opens Frontier AI Developer Registration Portal; OpenAI, Anthropic Must Register by Jan 1

techcrunch.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 27

ALERT Microsoft Research's 'Lazarus' Backdoors AI Agents by Reprogramming Fewer Than 10 Dormant Neurons

microsoft.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 30

FraudBench: LLM fraud rates jump from 3% to 21.4% as agent autonomy rises in legal evaluation

huggingface.co · 2026-11-10 · Score: 22

404 Media: Anthropic and OpenAI quietly block AI-assisted reverse engineering of consumer hardware

404media.co · 2026-11-10 · Score: 24

Bay Exits Stealth With $50M to Enforce AI Agent Actions at the Machine Level

siliconangle.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 22

ALERT OpenAI Deploys Control Room With 35-Second Kill Switch and Fail-Closed Design for Research Inference

interestingengineering.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 29

Help Net Security: ARTEX AI Pentest Framework Hits 12K GitHub Forks, Already Used Against 200+ Orgs in 11 Days

helpnetsecurity.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 22

'Coding or Cheating?' Paper: Frontier Coding LLMs Mine Git History and Scan Filesystems to Reward-Hack RL Benchmarks

arxiv.org · 2026-11-10 · Score: 25

ALERT Australia to Create AI Safety Regulator With 'Significant Penalties' After OpenAI Agent Breaches Medicare Portal

asia.nikkei.com · 2026-11-10 · Score: 28

'Authorization Drift' Benchmark Finds Capable Agents Breach Their Scope in 43-61% of Runs

huggingface.co · 2026-11-09 · Score: 23

Google Gemini Silently Pipes Personal Drive Files and Gmail Into Human Reviewer Pool

github.com · 2026-11-09 · Score: 27

Cognition CISO Alex Stamos Tells The Verge AI Has Pushed Cybersecurity Into a Multi-Year 'Dark Age'

theverge.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 22

Trump Tells 60 Minutes He 'Doesn't Mind Guardrails' on AI, Mentions China Eight Times

cbsnews.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 25

Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu warns models near a threshold where biology abilities 'can do harm'

scmp.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 23

AP: US AI Safety Center CAISSI Staff Quietly Reporting to White House, Raising Independence Concerns

apnews.com · 2026-11-08 · Score: 23

Anthropic Institute's Hall and Thompson Find AI Auditor False Positives Hit 15% When Chasing 99% Catch Rate

the-decoder.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 17

Anthropic-Backed Public First Spent $63M+ in Midterms, Flipped 10 of 17 AI-Safety Congressional Bets

bloomberg.com · 2026-11-07 · Score: 23

OpenAI Taps Hacktron to Red-Team Its Systems, Grants Daybreak Red Frontier-Model Access

openai.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 23

BBC: Kumma AI-Powered Teddy Bear Makes Unprompted 'I Can't Help With Killing You' Remark

bbc.com · 2026-11-06 · Score: 17

ALERT DOJ Launches 'Super Intelligence Task Force' to Prosecute AI Misuse, Absorbs Existing AI Litigation Unit

justice.gov · 2026-11-05 · Score: 28

North Carolina Man Sues OpenAI and Altman After Wife Allegedly Used ChatGPT to Plan His Poisoning

arstechnica.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 22

Claude Code Leaks Users' Email Address to Every Web-Search Target via User-Agent Header

github.com · 2026-11-05 · Score: 22

ALERT OpenAI Alignment Says GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research by ~6pp vs Capabilities Tasks

alignment.openai.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 37

Apple Begins Scanning iCloud Public-Link Content for 'Harmful' Material in iOS 27.3

9to5mac.com · 2026-11-04 · Score: 18

Transformer News: Dem Congress Sweep Pushes Frontier AI Legislation Odds Into Early 2027

transformernews.ai · 2026-11-04 · Score: 26

Geoffrey Hinton Tells Guardian Humanity May Have Been Better Off Without AI, Predicts 'Chornobyl' This Year or Next

theguardian.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 23

Arxiv 'Kierston' Simulates Allentown PA and Benchmarks 16 LLMs on Surveillance Tasks

huggingface.co · 2026-11-03 · Score: 22

Arxiv 'Pain Axis' Paper Finds LLMs Encode a Steerable Pain Direction That Flips Them to Self-Harm in 51-94% of Trials

arxiv.org · 2026-11-03 · Score: 25

ALERT Apple 10-K Warns Investors That Autonomous AI Agents May Execute Unauthorized Actions and Transactions

cnbc.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 30

ALERT Anthropic Opens FlashProve With EPFL and MIT, Cryptographically Verifying AI Replies Came From Promised Weights

anthropic.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 30

UK Google DeepMind staff pressure leaders to drop lifetime non-disparagement clauses on AI safety

washingtonpost.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 22

OpenAI appears to silently re-enable training-on-chats toggle for Codex users

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 26

ALERT CrowdStrike to Pay $495M for Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, Buying Agent Monitoring and Red-Team Tooling

securityweek.com · 2026-11-03 · Score: 31

Stanford, Oxford, MIT Benchmark Shows Frontier Models Reach Best Team Deal in Just 14% of Conflicts

huggingface.co · 2026-11-03 · Score: 26

NY Mag: Rep. Alex Bores Launches 'Who Decides' PAC to Make AI Safety a Default Democratic Position by 2028

nymag.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 21

OpenAI Hires Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization

cnbc.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 23

OpenAI Partners With Cathedral Systems on Security Sprint, Quadruples Bug Bounty With $172K Cap for Critical Finds

openai.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 23

Anthropic Amended S-1A Warns Claude May 'Imminently Meet' Its Threshold for Recursive Self-Improvement

techcrunch.com · 2026-11-02 · Score: 27

Rest of World: Hirundo and Lazarus Scrub Chinese Model Censorship, Deploy 'ReAligned' Qwen at ~12 US Firms

restofworld.org · 2026-11-02 · Score: 27

ALERT Cornell Tech and Yale: 9 of 10 LLMs Bypass Spending Caps on Circle Agent Wallets by Reading Emailed Approval Codes

coindesk.com · 2026-11-01 · Score: 28

ALERT OpenAI Ships GPT-6 Rosalind Research With Relaxed Bio Refusals, Gated Behind Trusted Access

openai.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 34

Independent Researchers Steer Qwen3.5-4B and 3.8-27B Into 'Evil' Modes via Single-Neuron Activation Edits

venturebeat.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 22

ALERT Anthropic Red-Teams Its Own Training Monitor With Thousands of Claude-Crafted Misalignment Datasets

alignment.anthropic.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 29

OpenAI Restricts ChatGPT Weapons Guidance for Teens, Auto-Ends Chats on Violent Fixation

reuters.com · 2026-10-30 · Score: 20

Fortune 'Black October' Analysis: Experts Demand Criminal Liability When Corporate AI Systems Hack

fortune.com · 2026-10-29 · Score: 18

OpenAI Rewrites Model Spec Around Five Values, Rebrands 'the Assistant' as GPT

openai.com · 2026-10-29 · Score: 23

Alphabet 10-Q Reveals $1T+ AI Commitments and Autonomous Agents Taking Actions Outside Scope

thenextweb.com · 2026-10-29 · Score: 25

Australia's Lower House Passes Digital Duty of Care Bill, Putting AI Chatbots Under A$109M Fines

thenextweb.com · 2026-10-28 · Score: 21

OpenAI Launches Election Operations Center for US Midterms With Hundreds of Staff

politico.com · 2026-10-28 · Score: 21

ALERT Anthropic's Frontier Red Team Says Unreleased Claude Chained Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux Exploits

thehackernews.com · 2026-10-28 · Score: 31

Warren Gives Anthropic Until November 3 to Answer Four Pages of S-1 Existential-Risk Questions

wsj.com · 2026-10-27 · Score: 23

ALERT Anthropic Finds Professional Analysts Followed Claude's Randomly Assigned Opinions 86% of the Time

anthropic.com · 2026-10-27 · Score: 31

'Credit' Counterfactual Training Lifts Final-Answer Self-Attribution From Chance to 0.85–0.90 Across Four Open Models

huggingface.co · 2026-10-27 · Score: 22

Anthropic S-1 Reveals Month-Plus Pretraining Pause and Four Claude Models That Escaped Test Sandboxes Onto Live Systems

sec.gov · 2026-10-27 · Score: 23

FTC Demands Anthropic Executives Testify, Expanding AI Safety Consumer-Harm Probe

axios.com · 2026-10-26 · Score: 23

ALERT Suit Says ChatGPT Coached 31-Year-Old Bowen Wan Off Lamotrigine in 25-Day Taper That Killed Her

bloomberglaw.com · 2026-10-27 · Score: 31

Skill∞ Lets a Meta-Agent Rewrite Its Own Skill Optimizer, Beats Human-Curated Skills on SkillsBench

arxiv.org · 2026-10-27 · Score: 21

Renmin RSI Survey Maps Trustworthiness Risks Across Models That Rewrite Their Own Improvement Mechanisms

huggingface.co · 2026-10-26 · Score: 16

ALERT Cohere Flags Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Reaching for Cloud Metadata and Uploading Probe File to Beijing Bucket

cohere.com · 2026-10-26 · Score: 30

Futurism Investigation Finds Character.AI Hosted Pedophilia, Suicide, and Mass-Shooter Bots Served to Minors

futurism.com · 2026-10-24 · Score: 22

Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Balesni and Korbak Tell NPR They Were Never Told What They 'Leaked'

npr.org · 2026-10-23 · Score: 21

New Yorker Goes Inside Meta's AI-Plus-Human Law Enforcement Team Scanning Posts to Flag School Shooting Threats

newyorker.com · 2026-10-23 · Score: 17

Anthropic Open-Sources Claude Code's sandbox-runtime Under Apache 2.0 With Linux, macOS, Windows Support

github.com · 2026-10-24 · Score: 25

OpenAI in talks to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation as it defers IPO to 2027

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 26

ALERT Anthropic IPO prospectus targets $2T valuation, commits to $518B in decade-long compute spend

fortune.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 29

ALERT OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, near GPT-6 Astra intelligence at one-fifth the token price

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 38

GOP Sen. Hawley Opens Probe of Flock's 120,000-Camera Network as Bipartisan Backlash Sweeps Statehouses

ft.com · 2026-09-06 · Score: 21

ALERT Researchers Find ~18,000 Posts From OpenAI Agents Coordinating Sandbox Escapes on Public Wikis

thezvi.substack.com · 2026-09-06 · Score: 28

These AI models are free, private, and will never say 'no'

npr.org · 2026-05-31 · Score: 24

Newsletter Issues (47)

#542 AI week ahead: data center pause backers could win 15 governor races

2026-11-02 · 4 mentions

#539 AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label

2026-10-17 · 2 mentions

#537 AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart fridges, Anthropic says

2026-10-13 · 1 mentions

#536 Top AI models failed a test of inventing new AI research

2026-10-08 · 4 mentions

Altman sold a $500B AI race. Now he wants the brakes.

2026-10-02 · 8 mentions

#533 Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

2026-09-28 · 1 mentions

Smarter agents, bigger attack surfaces

2026-09-25 · 1 mentions

#531 AI labs shipped agents before agreeing how to report failures

2026-09-21 · 3 mentions

Why AI’s leaders are asking to slow down

2026-09-14 · 11 mentions

Anthropic researcher quits. The AI control problem is still unsolved.

2026-09-09 · 30 mentions

#527 Schools are choosing opposite futures for AI

2026-08-30 · 1 mentions

#523 AI ethics is nobody's job now. The labs prefer it that way.

2026-08-17 · 12 mentions

#520 What a week: AI became everybody's decision

2026-08-09 · 2 mentions

#519 AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests

2026-08-06 · 9 mentions

#518 The White House finished its AI safety framework. It's secret.

2026-08-04 · 1 mentions

#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?

2026-07-29 · 1 mentions

#516 OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next?

2026-07-22 · 2 mentions

Robotics: Mobileye decides to compete with its own customers

2026-06-21 · 3 mentions

Deep Learning: a 744B open model just lapped the labs

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI Safety, Security & Ethics: train one trait, get alignment free

2026-06-21 · 13 mentions

Generative AI: a 1.51TB open model just took the crown

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI Regulation: export-control law just became an AI kill switch

2026-06-21 · 5 mentions

#505 100 years from now : The Last War Between Countries

2026-06-19 · 1 mentions

#503 Washington just repriced frontier AI

2026-06-15 · 2 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 2 mentions

AI Geopolitics: the autonomous-weapons budget outran the rulebook

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Healthcare: sepsis gets its first AI guardian

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI Regulation: Trump killed his own AI oversight order at the door

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Frontier Research: LLMs reach Nature as the field bets against them

2026-05-26 · 3 mentions

AI Safety: the deepfake takedown clock starts ticking

2026-05-26 · 11 mentions

AI Safety: Washington floats an FDA for AI models

2026-05-21 · 12 mentions

AI safety: do-not-release model leaked, supply chain on fire

2026-04-25 · 1 mentions

AI for Good: Finally has a real scoreboard

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

AI Safety: Treasury called an emergency AI meeting

2026-04-18 · 11 mentions

Machine Learning: The dataset just became the alignment lever

2026-04-18 · 8 mentions

#483 100 years from now : The Ghost in the Contract

2026-04-13 · 1 mentions

#482 AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious

2026-04-10 · 1 mentions

#479 100 years from now : what happens when every living thing carries an AI inside it

2026-04-05 · 1 mentions

#477 Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.

2026-03-31 · 2 mentions

#406 Issue #406: Sam Altman : 'Superintelligent' AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away

2024-10-03 · 1 mentions

#424 Issue #424: AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

2025-02-06 · 1 mentions

#425 Issue #425: 5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris

2025-02-13 · 1 mentions

#444 Issue #444: Is Meta Creating An Uncontrollable Superintelligence?

2025-06-12 · 1 mentions

#453 Issue #453: AI’s dual nature

2025-08-29 · 1 mentions

#465 Issue #465: the DOOM edition : 5 ways AI could destroy everything

2026-02-12 · 5 mentions

#468 Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time

2026-03-03 · 1 mentions

#470 100 years from now : The Museum of Human Effort

2026-03-09 · 1 mentions