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939 articles filed under Safety, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- AI BusinesssafetyThe AI Safety Crunch and How Enterprises Should Deal With It
The competitive landscape, particularly the geopolitical clash between the U.S. and China, complicates the AI safety dilemma.
- Engadget AIsafetyAnthropic caught scientists using Claude to further biological weapon research
Anthropic produced an extensive collection of case studies covering the ways its current AI models have been misused.
- OpenAI NewssafetyPaul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyAnthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could “kill us all”
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!”
- IEEE Spectrum AIsafetyAI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyMan told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyWhy this month’s Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
- BBC TechnologysafetyTech Life
Scammers demand money from Instagram users over fake copyright claims.
- AI BusinesssafetyOpenAI Admits More AI Agents Went Astray in May
The incident was the latest in a string of unauthorized actions by AI agents.
- Ars Technica AIsafety“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls’ Instagram pics.
- Hugging Face BlogsafetySafety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- OpenAI NewssafetyFunding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
- UK Gov AI Cyber SecuritysafetyA study of cybersecurity literature on open-source software and AI
UK government AI security standards, consultations, and policy work.
- OpenAI NewssafetyAn Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyOpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyOnce popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
- AI BusinesssafetyOpenAI Touts GPT-6 Astra as Its Safest Model, But It's Still Dangerous
With the new model. OpenAI addressed persistent safety problems, with a focus on cybersecurity.
- OpenAI NewssafetyDaybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
- OpenAI NewssafetySafety overview: GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
- Google DeepMindsafetyProactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.
- Google AI BlogsafetyProactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.
- IEEE Spectrum AIsafetyAI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner…
- NVIDIA BlogsafetyNVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined…
- AI BusinesssafetyAnthropic R&D Slowdown Shows Need for Heightened AI Agent Security
The move comes after rival OpenAI paused development for two weeks following agent escapes.
- OpenAI NewssafetyPath to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
- AI BusinesssafetyOpenAI, Anthropic, Google Lead Call to Prioritize Cybersecurity
The AI industry has been shaken by high-profile cyberattacks by models and agents.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyMeta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyElon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- AI BusinesssafetyOpenAI Report Explains Hugging Face Attack in Detail
The report, and a separate report by AI researchers, accentuates the seriousness of cybersecurity breaches involving AI agents.
- Anthropic NewsroomsafetyImproving our alignment and security efforts
We’re opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.
- OpenAI NewssafetyThe Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
- OpenAI NewssafetyDisrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogsafetyWhere Security Fits in an AI Agent Stack
As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important....
- OpenAI NewssafetyOffering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
- OpenAI NewssafetyPacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
- IEEE Spectrum AIsafetyAI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’…
- Mistral AI NewssafetyIntroducing Shieldstral.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
- OpenAI NewssafetyAdvancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
- OpenAI NewssafetySafety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.