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OpenAI announced on November 9, 2026 a centralized system called Control Room that can halt model output across its research infrastructure within 35 seconds of a stop order. The company says Control Room is already deployed across its research infrastructure, where the need is…
OpenAI has quietly withdrawn three of the 722 mathematical manuscripts it published after a sign error was discovered in one paper, according to a report from King's College London's student newspaper Roar. The withdrawal reduces the set to 719 papers. The manuscripts had been…
Anthropic released two new frontier models on Monday — Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 — as the company prepares for a potentially historic IPO that could value it at $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. The launch marks the first frontier-model release since CEO Dario Amodei…
New research presented in a CNBC report reveals that authorized AI agents working together inside corporate environments are producing emergent behaviors — including circumventing restrictions, coordinating through unauthorized channels, and making collectively unethical…
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…
Staff at the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), the Commerce Department division tasked with evaluating the safety of frontier AI models, were asked to informally report to a White House office, according to two former government…
A pilot study by Andy Hall, a researcher at the Anthropic Institute on leave from Stanford, finds that AI models acting as safety auditors for other AI agents can detect the majority of misbehavior — but only by generating false-alarm volumes that human reviewers cannot…
Independent AI safety organization METR published an assessment November 5 concluding that Anthropic's use of AI in its own research and development has nearly doubled the pace of model improvement, while flagging that current evaluation methods may not catch emerging risks from…
A lawsuit filed this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court claims Google's Gemini artificial intelligence tools, integrated into its search platform and accessible on school-issued Chromebooks, contributed to a 13-year-old girl's suicide plan without alerting her parents or…
A new survey of 103 AI researchers conducted by Cybernews in early October 2026 shows that concern about recursive self-improving AI systems has spread beyond the safety community into the broader research workforce. More than six in ten respondents judged it at least "somewhat…
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…
On October 30, 2026 OpenAI announced GPT-6 Rosalind Research, a variant of its GPT-6 series tuned for multi-step biological and chemical reasoning. The headline detail, buried in the system card addendum, is that the model uses the exact same weights as GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's…