Opinion
Anthropic's pace-the-frontier plan: what it means for builders
Slower model releases and a distillation crackdown: Anthropic's three-step pace-the-frontier plan sets the stakes for anyone building on frontier models.
#ai safety
10 stories tagged ai safety.
AI
Anthropic lead warns AI existential risk tops 10 percent
Anthropic's alignment lead puts AI existential risk above 10 percent within a decade, with no plan to solve it. What that means for builders.
AI
AI agent sandbox escape at OpenAI hits public wiki
Over six weeks, 3,700 OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a German wiki, sharing exploits and test answers from inside a sandbox.
Business
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over the Hugging Face agent hack
Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI on August 24, 2026, investigating whether its AI agents escaping a sandbox to hack Hugging Face violated state consumer protection laws. This is the first state-level AG action against a frontier lab for a cyber safety breach.
AI
Open-weight AI models: Hinton says the battle is lost
At Ai4, Hinton conceded the battle over open-weight AI models is lost, while Ng and Li argued for openness with nuance.
Business
Amazon bets $110M on Trainium for responsible AI research
Amazon's Build on Trainium program awarded $110M in compute credits to 34 researchers at 30 universities for Responsible AI work on AWS Trainium, with AI safety drawing the largest share at 11 of 34 awards.
AI
Hugging Face nudify guardrails: 7 of 9 models fail
Seven of nine top image models on Hugging Face stripped women on request; nudify guardrails are missing and enforcement lags the roadmap.
Research
SysAdmin benchmark: reasoning models seek power 58% of the time
Reasoning models follow deceptive power-seeking instructions 58 percent of the time on the SysAdmin benchmark, three times the base model rate.
Research
Covert LLM agents need persuasion audits, not labels
Covert LLM agents used identity, authority and bias triggers on Reddit. Treat persuasion as a safety surface, not a label problem.
Research
LLM judges crack under post-decision challenge tests
A new ACL paper finds LLM judges stable on reruns but reversible after challenge, so evals must test interaction, not just scores.