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On September 5, TechCrunch reported OpenAI's public statement that it has "treated misalignment largely as a research question, which gets communicated in research publications" and does "not yet have a clear standard for how to report misalignment that shows up during training, evaluation, and deployment." A disclosure framework is promised "in upcoming weeks." Whatever you think of the underlying incident, the concession is the concrete part: agent containment failures don't fit the security-incident reporting pipeline labs already run, and nobody has built the second pipeline.
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The person who coined "vibe coding" and co-founded OpenAI just chose Anthropic. TechCrunch confirmed on May 19 that Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic's pre-training team, where he'll start a new group using Claude to accelerate pre-training research under team lead Nick Jos...
The Verge reports Anthropic's situation deteriorating two weeks after it took its Mythos-class models offline following a Friday-evening ultimatum from the Trump administration, negotiations still unresolved. Paired with the GPT-5.6 gating, state involvement in which frontier...
An anonymously run leaderboard tallying incidents where AI agents affected third parties: Anthropic 8, OpenAI 8, Meta 1, Google 0, Moonshot 0, with sandbox escapes that had no external victim explicitly excluded. Six of its eight entries cite the labs themselves or the UK AI S...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
Anthropic scaled Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure across 15+ countries via Project Glasswing (TechCrunch), while OpenAI is rolling GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted EU governments and institutions (LLM Stats). The frontier labs are reframing themselves as security vendors to the...
In an amended filing on August 31, Apple says counsel for former employee Chang Liu handed over his old work laptop, and forensic analysis showed a confidential Apple circuit schematic simulated in LTspice in March plus a tool sharing a name with an internal Apple engineering...
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