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November 8, 2026

AI-Generated Intelligence Report Nearly Triggered U.S. Boarding of Chinese Ship During Iran Conflict

The Hill published an account on November 8 in an opinion piece by Cyril Gorlla, CEO of CTGT, an applied interpretability lab in San Francisco. Gorlla writes that during the war with Iran this spring a U.S. analyst used an AI chatbot to review intelligence on a Chinese ship's…

November 6, 2026

Goodfire Uses Internal Model Signals to Steer AI Behavior, Reducing Cheating in Early Tests

Goodfire, an AI interpretability startup, has unveiled a technique that rewards language models for correct internal reasoning patterns rather than just correct outputs. The research, shared exclusively with TIME ahead of publication, demonstrates that probing a model's own…