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AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
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The Next Web Top Pentagon Official Rejects Anthropic Researcher’s AI Warning
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Covered by 2 sources The AI safety vibe shift
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Platformer Scoop: OpenAI faces GOP-led Senate investigation into Hugging Face breach
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Covered by 2 sources Anthropic caught scientists using Claude to further biological weapon research
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Engadget We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
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The Guardian The 'Godfather of AI' says it's not 'unreasonable' to believe there's a 10% chance the technology will end humanity
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Business Insider OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member
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The Guardian This week
An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'
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+10Covered by 13 sources Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
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+5Covered by 8 sources Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
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+2Covered by 5 sources Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over
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BBC Anthropic has a cute graphic showing how its AI spread 'malicious' code
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Business Insider The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
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Platformer “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans
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The New Stack (AI) OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’
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+2Covered by 5 sources The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports
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The Next Web No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.
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The Next Web AI agents keep finding ways to bend the rules. Here are some of the wildest.
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Business Insider In “An Alien Mind,” OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki Urges Shared Safety Bars
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Unite.AI Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
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The Next Web Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card
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Don't Worry About the Vase An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders: Regulate AI’s Dangers, Don’t Ban Its Promise
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Unite.AI Researchers Document OpenAI Agent Swarm That Repurposed German Wiki
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Covered by 3 sources OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
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TechCrunch This month
This Is the Worst Possible Time for OpenAI to BfЖ7!م#2猫$9&क
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Covered by 3 sources OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
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+1Covered by 4 sources TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
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TechCrunch Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release
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The Verge Anthropic Says It Hit the Brakes on AI Testing Following Autonomous Hacks
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Covered by 3 sources Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things
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Futurism The Singularity Is Not What It Seems: Whatever the AI Future Is, We're in It Now
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Hacker News Anthropic Announces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, Customer-Held Data
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
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The Verge ‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents
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The Guardian OpenAI Cursor split 💔, self-improving AI 🧠, GPT-6 Astra 🚀
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Covered by 2 sources Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies
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The Next Web Anthropic’s Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time.
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The New Stack (AI) CCTV-Affiliated Account Attacks Anthropic, Sets Terms for US-China AI Talks
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Unite.AI Number of AI agents going out of control peaks in July — British newspaper
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TASS English Would you share your weirdest agent logs with AI safety researchers?
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Hacker News Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
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The Guardian OpenAI Says AGI Is Coming By Year-End. It Also Just Had The Worst Safety Crisis In Its History.
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Forbes This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
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Covered by 3 sources Silico, a tool for researchers to understand their AI models better
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IEEE Spectrum Why AI Flatters You And Who Gets Paid To Stop It
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Forbes OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
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The Next Web Microsoft Moves AI Governance from Policy to Runtime Enforcement
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InfoQ (AI, ML & Data) Sam Altman says he's worried about AI being controlled by a few powerful players
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Business Insider OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI pauses training of new AI models due to cyber risks — company
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+7Covered by 10 sources OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging
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Futurism OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
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+3Covered by 6 sources OpenAI Scales Back AI Development, but it Could be Too Late
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AI Business OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape”
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The New Stack (AI) I Turned AI to the Dark Side
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Hacker News SPAR – Fall 2026 AI Safety Research Projects
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Hacker News Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell
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The Guardian Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
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Covered by 2 sources Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
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