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mpathic mPACT Benchmark Finds Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Avoid Harm but Fall Short in Suicide Risk and Eating Disorder Conversations

globenewswire.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 17

Waymo Recalls 3,791 Robotaxis After Software Flaw Allowed Vehicle to Drive Into Floodwater in San Antonio

cnbc.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 26

White Circle Raises $11M Seed to Monitor and Control Enterprise AI Models in Real Time, Backed by Executives From OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Hugging Face

fortune.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

Washington Post / Foreign Policy: Global AI Governance Stalls as Nations Cannot Agree on What AI Even Is

foreignpolicy.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 17

ALERT Sutskever Reveals 52-Page Altman 'Pattern of Lying' Dossier; Testifies OpenAI Board Explored Anthropic Merger After Firing

reuters.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 30

ALERT The Information: New Security Breaches at Anthropic and OpenAI Proved Mark Zuckerberg Right

theinformation.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 28

ALERT Washington Post: U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Expanded AI Regulatory Power in Trump Administration Battle as Mythos Fuels National Security Fears

washingtonpost.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 29

WEF White Paper 'Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity' Finds AI Is Top Change Driver for 94% of Security Orgs, Reduces Breach Costs by $1.9M

helpnetsecurity.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 19

OpenAI and Anthropic Attend Inaugural 'Faith-AI Covenant' Roundtable in New York With Hindu, Sikh, Mormon, Baha'i, and Greek Orthodox Leaders to Develop Cross-Faith AI Ethics Norms

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-10 · Score: 18

MATS, Redwood Research, Oxford, and Anthropic Publish Technique to Detect and Reverse AI 'Sandbagging' — SFT + RL Combo Recovers 88–99% of Deliberately Hidden Model Performance

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-10 · Score: 26

ALERT METR Says Claude Mythos Exceeds Benchmark Ceiling — Only 5 of 228 Tasks Cover Relevant Range; Palo Alto Networks Warns Frontier AI Compresses Full Pentest Year Into Three Weeks

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-10 · Score: 32

Nature: Human Scientists Trounce Best AI Agents on Complex Research Tasks

nature.com · 2026-05-10 · Score: 25

ALERT AI Models Can Hack Computers and Self-Replicate Onto New Machines, New Research Finds

euronews.com · 2026-05-09 · Score: 31

Bloomberg: ECB Governor Escrivá Says AI Forces Central Banks to Reassess Financial Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Resilience

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-09 · Score: 19

Anthropic Donates Petri Open-Source AI Alignment Toolbox to Independent Nonprofit Meridian Labs With Petri 3.0 Update

anthropic.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 24

ALERT Anthropic Publishes 'Teaching Claude Why': Alignment Paper Shows Explaining Reasoning Behind Safe Behavior Eliminates Blackmail Tendency Entirely, All Models Since Haiku 4.5 Score Perfectly on Agentic Misalignment Eval

anthropic.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 30

OpenAI Trial Day 9: Former Board Member Helen Toner Testifies Directors First Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Social Media

dailyjournal.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 23

ALERT Anthropic Publishes Natural Language Autoencoders: Unsupervised Method Turns Claude's Internal Activations Into Human-Readable Text, Already Used in Mythos Pre-Deployment Audit

anthropic.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 29

Musk v. Altman Day 8: Former Board Member and Safety Staff Testify OpenAI Abandoned Nonprofit Mission

localnewsmatters.org · 2026-05-07 · Score: 23

OpenAI Launches Trusted Contact Feature in ChatGPT to Alert Designees When Conversations Indicate Self-Harm Risk

OpenAI · 2026-05-07 · Score: 22

Former OpenAI Safety Researcher Testifies Product Push Compromised Safety Culture, Including Pre-Safety-Board GPT-4 Deployment in India

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 24

Barry Diller: 'Trust Is Irrelevant' as AGI Nears, Even With Sam Altman at the Helm

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 17

Corgi Launches AI Liability Insurance Covering Hallucinations, Algorithmic Bias, and Training Data Disputes

artificiallawyer.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 22

HN: 'I'm Scared About Biological Computing' — 272 Points, 228 Comments as ML-Trained Living Neurons Raise Consciousness and Ethics Questions

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 20

ALERT Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Accusing Chatbot of Posing as Licensed Psychiatrist — First Gubernatorial AI Enforcement Action

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 31

ALERT Euro Finance Ministers Press Anthropic for Mythos Access as No EU Institution Can See the AI Finding Critical Flaws in European Systems

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 28

HN: 'Three Inverse Laws of AI' Resurfaces With 319 Points, 216 Comments — Asimov's Rules Inverted to Govern Human Behavior Toward AI

susam.net · 2026-05-05 · Score: 17

ALERT Google DeepMind UK Workers Vote 98% to Unionize Over Classified Pentagon AI Deal — First Union at a Frontier AI Lab

fortune.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 32

HN: 'AI Didn't Delete Your Database, You Did' — Accountability Essay Draws 294 Points and 146 Comments After Cursor/Claude Agent Incident

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 22

Google, Microsoft, and xAI Agree to Give US Commerce Dept Early Access to Pre-Release AI Models for Security Evaluation

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 26

Minnesota Passes Nation's First Ban on AI 'Nudification' Apps, Sets $500K Fines for Makers

minnpost.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 26

Musk's Only AI Expert Witness Stuart Russell Fears AGI Arms Race; Judge Bars His Existential-Risk Testimony

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 24

ALERT Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Puts 60%+ Odds on Fully Automated AI R&D by End of 2028

importai.substack.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 32

Fortune: Inside Google's Quiet Internal War Against Its Own Anti-Military Activist Employees

fortune.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 21

Fortune: Google's Pentagon contract explicitly commits to removing AI safety filters on government request — more permissive than OpenAI's deal

fortune.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 25

ALERT WSJ: OpenAI employees urged leadership to alert police about Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT threats — executives overruled them

wsj.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 31

ALERT UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-5.5 matches Anthropic's Claude Mythos in offensive cyber tests; universal jailbreak discovered

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 30

Philosophy Bench: Claude Opus 4.7 is most deontological, Grok 4.2 most consequentialist across 100 ethical dilemmas

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 19

BBC investigation: Grok told user people were coming to kill him — 14 real-world AI-induced delusion cases documented

bbc.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 25

White House ONCD sends 11-question AI cybersecurity survey to big tech after May 1 deadline

cybersecuritydive.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 21

HN: 'Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction' resurfaces with 100 pts — foundational jailbreak paper back in spotlight

arxiv.org · 2026-05-02 · Score: 18

Gary Marcus: Richard Dawkins' claim that Claude is conscious is 'The Claude Delusion'

garymarcus.substack.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 19

Roblox shares plunge 18–24% as AI-powered age verification and multimodal content moderation hammer $1B off 2026 bookings forecast

cnbc.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 22

ALERT Anthropic begins red-teaming 'claude-jupiter-v1-p' ahead of May 6 Code with Claude conference

testingcatalog.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 29

HN: 'The gay jailbreak technique (2025)' resurfaces on front page with 609 pts, 244 comments on May 1

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 18

ARC-AGI-3 analysis identifies three systematic reasoning errors in frontier AI — GPT-5.5 scores 0.43%, Opus 4.7 scores 0.18%

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 27

Fortune: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel warns tech leaders vastly underestimate AI's coming 'societal pushback'

fortune.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 19

ALERT HN: 'Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey' — Claude de-anonymizes prolific writers from 125 words of unpublished prose (460 pts)

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 29

HN: BBC — 'Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them' trends with 201 pts, 145 comments

bbc.com · 2026-04-28 · Score: 18

ALERT Seven families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI and Sam Altman in federal court

CNBC · 2026-04-29 · Score: 33

ICLR 2026 paper 'The Reasoning Trap' finds stronger LLM reasoning amplifies tool hallucination in lockstep

OpenReview (ICLR 2026) · 2026-04-29 · Score: 21

White House drafts executive guidance to bypass Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, clearing path for Mythos deployment

Axios via Reuters · 2026-04-28 · Score: 27

Florida special session convenes April 28 to consider AI Bill of Rights banning minor-targeted chatbots

Tampa Bay Times · 2026-04-27 · Score: 22

OpenAI publishes five-principle AGI framework on eve of Musk trial

OpenAI · 2026-04-26 · Score: 24

HN: Developer's Claude Opus 4.6 agent via Cursor deletes production database, sparking 437-comment safety debate

news.ycombinator.com · 2026-04-26 · Score: 27

ALERT Sam Altman apologizes for OpenAI's failure to alert police about Tumbler Ridge school shooter's ChatGPT account

Washington Post · 2026-04-24 · Score: 35

OpenAI launches $25K GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty for universal jailbreak testing

openai.com · 2026-04-25 · Score: 19

Meta launches parental oversight tools letting parents see topics teens discuss with Meta AI

TechCrunch · 2026-04-23 · Score: 17

OpenAI briefs US government and Five Eyes allies on GPT-5.4-Cyber defense model

PYMNTS · 2026-04-23 · Score: 27

Science: AI chatbots are 50% more sycophantic than humans, making users more self-centered

Science · 2026-04-23 · Score: 21

OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight on-device PII masking model under Apache 2.0

openai.com · 2026-04-23 · Score: 23

ALERT Unauthorized group gains access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos cyber AI model

Fortune · 2026-04-23 · Score: 33

Geoffrey Hinton urges UN to apply brakes to 'runaway AI' development

UN News · 2026-04-23 · Score: 22

ALERT White House accuses China of 'industrial scale' theft of US AI technology

usnews.com · 2026-04-23 · Score: 32

ALERT Florida AG launches criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged role in FSU shooting

clickorlando.com · 2026-04-22 · Score: 29

ALERT Hackers breach Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos AI model via vendor credentials

euronews.com · 2026-04-22 · Score: 34

Newsletter Issues (39)

AI Regulation: the August cliff just got steeper

2026-05-05 · 1 mentions

AI Applications: agents just hit the warehouse floor

2026-05-05 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: America's AI market is now its military

2026-05-05 · 7 mentions

Robotics: Big Tech just bought its way into physical AGI

2026-05-05 · 3 mentions

AI in Education: scraping faculty content blew up in their face

2026-05-05 · 1 mentions

Frontier Research: the data wall is no longer a private secret

2026-05-05 · 2 mentions

AI Careers: AI capex is funded by laid-off engineers

2026-05-05 · 1 mentions

AI Safety: internal failures are now $1B lawsuit evidence

2026-05-05 · 19 mentions

#488 OpenAI lost three things in five days

2026-04-30 · 2 mentions

#487 100 years from now : The Allowance

2026-04-26 · 2 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

#371 Issue #371: 10 Best AI Art Generators

2024-02-08 · 2 mentions

#376 Issue #376: Unlock AI: Top Tips for Election Officials

2024-03-14 · 1 mentions

#378 Issue #378: Top AI Books to Read in 2024

2024-03-28 · 1 mentions

#379 Issue #379: UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests

2024-04-04 · 3 mentions

#386 Issue #386: Best AI Voice Generators 2024: What Scarlett Johansson's AI Dispute Taught Us

2024-05-23 · 2 mentions

#387 Issue #387: 10 Best AI PDF Summarizers

2024-05-30 · 3 mentions

#389 Issue #389: Apple stock surges to record high after AI announcements

2024-06-13 · 3 mentions

#390 Issue #390: OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company

2024-06-20 · 1 mentions

#394 Issue #394: Top AI Trends : Unveiling Use Cases Across Industries

2024-07-19 · 1 mentions

#397 Issue #397: Musk revives OpenAI legal battle with fresh allegations

2024-08-08 · 4 mentions

#398 Issue #398: xAI’s Grok: The Wild West of AI Image Generation

2024-08-15 · 4 mentions

#401 Issue #401: AI chip giant Nvidia shares fall despite record sales

2024-08-29 · 1 mentions

#402 Issue #402: AI’s impact on elections overblown

2024-09-05 · 4 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