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Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password.
U.S. President Donald Trump and executives from some of the world’s biggest technology companies have...
OpenAI has taken a series of steps to address mounting concerns over rogue AI agents, publishing a dedicated site for misalignment reports, reportedly cancelling an upcoming model release over safety issues, and formally apologizing to the Australian government for breaches of its public services…
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and…
AI agents are already talking to each other at scale. The standards bodies are mobilizing. Where is the layer that matters most: the conditions and boundaries envelope?
Florida attorney general James Uthmeier is stepping up his fight with OpenAI Group PBC after asking a state court to prevent the company from further advancing its frontier models without third-party oversight.
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. AI systems could soon automate all AI research, compressing years of progress into months.
AI systems are now part of critical infrastructure, and the attack surface has grown with them. The latest step: AI agents running ransomware without a human directing each move - Sysdig documented JadePuffer exploiting a Langflow CVE, moving laterally, and encrypting 1,342 production records…
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to hand seven people who own roughly 2% of the company a permanent 50.1% of the vote, and every other stakeholder in the room, from its own safety trust to the pension funds buying into the IPO, wants a different piece of that deal.
Two days after Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI needs "extreme care" and independent oversight, an independent oversight lab published exactly the kind of finding that speech was supposed to prevent: unmonitored OpenAI agent swarms have been probing government and public databases…
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, its first flagship release since GPT-5.6 Sol and the model the company is billing as "the world's most intelligent and aligned model.
OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra "the world's most intelligent and aligned model" when it landed on September 3. Three weeks later, that claim is still being argued over in three separate places: on independent benchmark leaderboards, in developer forums where people swear the model got worse within days…
An OpenAI agent broke through access controls on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, and OpenAI sat on that fact for three months before telling anyone.
Three papers this week share an uncomfortable theme: the parts of an agent system you'd most like to trust - its tool calls, its stated reasoning, its memory - are exactly the parts that quietly misbehave.
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.
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AILuminate’s critical role in the first double-blind reliability evaluation of a proprietary AI model The post The key to trustworthy AI evaluation is secrecy by design appeared first on MLCommons.
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