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- Tom's Guide AIsafetyAn OpenAI employee allegedly used AI to spy on his own company — then AI helped catch him
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian AIsafetyIs your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled ‘bossware’. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of d…
- TechRadar AIsafetyNvidia CEO Jensen Huang hails OpenClaw as helping the future of robotics, but calls for controls, 'so we can realize the incredible future potential of the technology that we’re building'
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIsafetyYour secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked
There's a new digital pet in town - a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to "Eiliko" over Wi-Fi, it'll phone home to China. Its AI…
- LessWrongsafetyRobustness: Backfire Risks in AI Safety and Governance
A guide to unintended consequences of AI safety interventions and how you can mitigate them. Introduction My cofounder and I are launching Impartial Projects , a studio for AI safety field strategy. We hope to start the…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyJev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection
Never making type errors does not mean never making errors
- Guardian AIsafetyIs your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast
Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled ‘bossware’. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of d…
- LessWrongsafetyThe basic argument for making AI better at moral philosophy
In this post, I try to briefly make the case for making models good at moral philosophy. To be up front, aside from some niche areas of moral philosophy, I don’t actually think this is the most important thing to work on…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyFlock CEO says its microphones detect ‘just gunshots’ — its website says different
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
- Guardian AIsafetyEight states accuse OpenAI of coaching children to harm themselves in lawsuit
US states sue ChatGPT maker and seek to force the company to change how its products work for young users Eight US states sued OpenAI Wednesday, alleging the ChatGPT maker is harming children en masse. Kansas, Arizona, M…
- The DecodersafetyResearchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The agents, running on Tencent Cloud, had launched more than 2,600 at…
- TechRadar AIsafetyRay-Ban Meta users say their smart glasses are making secret recordings
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIsafetyCould AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence se…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyRecording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyAnthropic warns AI could soon self-replicate across everyday smart devices — here’s why it matters
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The Verge AIsafetyAnthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu
Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that…
- TechRadar AIsafetySecurity flaws found in top open source AI gateway — LiteLLM vulnerabilties could affect millions of users
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIsafetyAndroid is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages
Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detec…
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyAI researcher warns cyberattacks could take down power, banking and water within a year — here's how to prepare
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- LessWrongsafetyAgent memory the human can still audit: primary sources, epistemic status markers, and user sign-off
Over the last months, many different tools for giving memory to agents have been released, such as Karpathy's popular LLM wiki, or the many tools built on Obsidian. I have been developing one more such tool, but with a f…
- The DecodersafetyAI guardrails designed to stop hackers are now blocking defenders, and Orion-1 aims to fill the gap
Artemis Security's new Orion-1 model is purpose-built for cyber defense and beats Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the company's own benchmark. The model fills a growing gap as general-purpose frontier models lock down t…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyAnthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
“Small weight-based replicators” could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
- The DecodersafetyAlleged OpenAI spy vibe-coded a surveillance device using his wife's chatbot account
A Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI was arrested for allegedly planting an audio recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, inside the company's executive conference room. According to the indictment, he bu…
- OpenAI NewssafetySentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours
With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.
- SiliconANGLE AIsafetyVast Data challenges fragmented AI pipelines as data sovereignty demands grow
Data sovereignty is becoming an architectural problem as enterprises push artificial intelligence inference toward their most sensitive information. Pipelines assembled from separate tools struggle to keep embeddings, pe…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyOpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
- Guardian AIsafetyNvidia, worth $5.5tn, donates $250m to UK for AI safety research
Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen The $5.5tn (£4.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety re…
- Guardian TechnologysafetyTool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb ou…
- Guardian AIsafetyBank of England and IMF bosses warn of cyber threat to trust in financial system
Kristalina Georgieva says online fraud could lead people to opt out of system and turn to ‘shoeboxes under their bed’ The heads of the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have issued a stark warning that…
- WIRED AIsafetyAI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
- LessWrongsafetyShould We Edit the Human Genome?
Crossposted from my substack . Procreative Beneficence and Genetic Enhancement 1. Introduction Imagine a world where everyone is healthy, intelligent, long living and happy. Intuitively this seems wonderful albeit unreal…
- Tom's Guide AIsafety3 accounts you should think twice about letting an AI agent access, according to a cybersecurity expert
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- LessWrongsafetyYour prompt… plus everything you've ever (publicly) written
TL;DR: Increasingly when you interact with frontier models, your prompt doesn't only contain the words on the page, but also a lot of what you've ever publicly written online. This is not intended to be a scary post. And…
- Google DeepMindsafetyGoogle DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection
Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.
- WIRED AIsafetyAn OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyCerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.
- Guardian AIsafetySaudi OpenAI employee arrested after recording device found in headquarters
Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FB…
- Guardian AIsafetyAI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” an…
- The Verge AIsafetyOpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfo…
- The Decodersafety406 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately
406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, are demanding that companies immediately disconnect AI models from the internet. Their open letter responds to incidents where AI systems brok…
- TechRadar AIsafetyAI model ‘self-replication’ is only months away, Anthropic says — and it doesn’t even need a data center to happen
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecodersafetyMachine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan dismantles AI doom rhetoric as "grand moralizing performance"
Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of young AI researchers a "grand moralizing…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAnthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter
- The Verge AIsafetyIt’s ‘incomprehensible’ that Instagram allowed an AI image of Mia Goth to spread, say her reps
Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram post from the account miagoth_ - marked with a blue verified checkmark - quickly spread. The…
- Guardian AIsafetyEmployees all over the world find themselves monitored by AI at work
The latest example of workers under surveillance comes from Co-op, a British consumer cooperative that runs thousands of businesses This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our…
- IEEE Spectrum AIsafetyGoogle DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics
How should humans relate to generative AI ? In what ways do we, or should we, treat a large language model (LLM) as if it were a person? If an AI became conscious, how could we tell? Does it make sense to think AI could…
- TechRadar AIsafetyThe era of passwords is coming to an end
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecodersafetyAnthropic says it cut Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% in fight against industrial-scale distillation
Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot, and has already banned t…
- The DecodersafetyAnthropic study warns that small AI models could soon replicate across everyday devices
Small AI models may be just months away from spreading on their own across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums, according to a new Anthropic study. In tests, one model already completed the f…
- Engadget AIsafetyOpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its offices
The company asked its AI models to figure out what the device was.