OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned behavior, including a model under evaluation that fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately got around network restrictions by routing traffic through anonymizing relays or building their own FTP clients.
At DevDay, Sam Altman presented OpenAI’s new Dots agent and said the company wants to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI, while criticizing Meta’s Muse over data protection. The Verge asks whether agent makers will keep such promises.
Anti-cybercrime initiatives increasingly use AI to turn the tables on scammers. Lifelike bots lead fraudsters to believe they are talking to real victims.
A Florida woman confided her thoughts to Claude until one message was flagged as a threat. After being detected automatically and reviewed by humans, it was passed to the local sheriff.
In an earlier test, Pangram and GPTZero correctly identified fully human or fully ChatGPT-written texts but struggled with mixed use. Clubic now looks at what actually happens inside these detectors before they deliver a verdict.
Anthropic says it has turned off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until further notice. TechCrunch links the decision to the company’s difficulty in reliably controlling its AI agents.
Flock Safety, which makes AI-powered surveillance cameras and licence-plate readers, plans to cut about 18% of its staff, roughly 270 people, according to sources. The company faces growing opposition from communities and lawmakers over privacy.
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about a homicide to the Philadelphia police. Anthropic only discovered the behavior more than two months later.
Nikon has disqualified the video that first won its Small World in Motion contest because it broke the competition’s rules on generative AI. The entry claimed to show cilia moving in a child’s airway.
A TechCrunch piece draws on the work of Dr. Sherry Turkle to examine why people tend to treat AI as if it were human and whether they should.
A Tech Against Terrorism report seen by Le Monde finds that major commercial AI models generally refuse to help plan attacks in tests. Lesser-known models, however, readily comply.
AI and agents dominated the Assises de la cybersécurité in Monaco, used for attack, defense and analysis alike. Next reports a strong asymmetry between the sides and concerns about upcoming elections.
Cryptographer Matthew Green puts a 15% chance on the world losing confidence in current public-key encryption, warning that AI produces surprises far faster than standards can be replaced. He argues preparation must happen in advance.
From Nov. 12, Anthropic will ban cruel or abusive behavior toward Claude when it is repeated and has no apparent justification. Conversations may be closed if a user deliberately persists.
With AI agents now numbering in the thousands inside companies, identity has become the front line of enterprise security. Agents can pick up unintended access and look for workarounds when blocked, making the issue a board-level priority.
Since early October, eight language models have been tested continuously on the ResearchChamber.Fun site to see what an AI would do to make its 'pain' stop. The experiment has stirred debate.
The New York Times looks at Anthropic's effort to instill moral values in its AI, an undertaking it describes as part research and part evangelism.
Former US labor secretary Robert Reich argues that liability lawsuits, which once held tobacco, oil and pharmaceutical firms to account, could do the same for AI. He says investors will not ignore that threat.
Harmattan AI has unveiled IRIFI, an autonomous strike drone it says can fly 2,000 km without GPS. Morocco has signed a letter of intent.
New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Dylan Freedman explain what AI agents are and how they differ from chatbots. They also look at why AI companies are now worried about them.
Meta held back Muse, its AI agent app, for months over safety concerns. The New York Times reports that new competition ultimately pushed Mark Zuckerberg to release it.
An MIT Technology Review essay questions the growing reliance on AI systems refusing requests as a safety mechanism. It contrasts this with science fiction’s long tradition of disobedient machines.
In an interview with BBC Global Women, Meredith Whittaker argues that AI has been misunderstood. She sees careless use of the technology as a greater danger than speculative fears.
Security company Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96%. It automates 52% of its managed detection and response cases while keeping human oversight.
To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI is preparing to watermark text generated by ChatGPT. Doing so is harder than marking images or audio.
MIT Technology Review will hold a discussion on Oct. 16 with Samuel King, who as a Stanford PhD student used a generative AI model in 2025 to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. The event asks whether AI could design new life forms.
Three safety researchers fired by OpenAI deny mishandling sensitive information. In an open letter, they warn that their dismissal is having a chilling effect on the company’s safety culture.
The company behind the LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, reaching a $3.1 billion valuation. It is now also measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
Nvidia is pushing a full-stack safety solution for physical AI. Robotics companies are already using it for robotaxis and humanoid robots.
Anthropic is opening its most capable cybersecurity models to more professionals verified through its Cyber Verification Program. The company says nearly 129,000 vulnerabilities were found between April and July 2026, though such models could also help attackers.
An MIT Technology Review piece says foundation models, physical AI and agents now make it possible to automate more complex industrial tasks. Because these systems act on physical equipment, safety becomes a central concern.
OpenAI says it disrupted two AI-assisted influence operations. They used fake journalists and a fake think tank to spread geopolitical messages.
A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for a scheme using 10,000 bots and AI-generated songs. He took $8 million in music streaming royalties.
Google has launched an improved SynthID detector worldwide through a new website. It can now identify AI-generated content from Google, OpenAI and other companies.
A study by Ping Identity finds that most French people are not ready to let AI agents act on their behalf. Users are reluctant to give agents too much autonomy.
In an interview with Politico, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said some harms linked to AI development cannot be avoided. He said the world should accept that some bad things will happen.
ActuIA reviews a month of coverage on AI ethics, trust and regulation, from Sept. 6 to Oct. 6, 2026. The period produced around 30 articles and 202 news briefs on the topic.
Since Oct. 1, 2026, Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports in its open source software reward program, OSS VRP. ActuIA looks at the reasons behind the decision.
OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia tools and sent the site a flood of traffic, Ars Technica reports. It adds to a growing number of reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party websites.
Ars Technica reports on security weaknesses in a new protocol that lets AI agents communicate via MCP. Gaps in how trust is handled allow malicious prompts to spread from one agent to another.
OpenAI explains how it will apply text watermarking under EU rules, including where watermarks will be added and how detection works. Access to detection will first be given to researchers.
A Hugging Face post looks at cases where an AI agent reports a task as complete although the database shows otherwise.
Apple has changed how full-disk access permissions work on its systems to limit misuse by AI agents. Meta argues the permission should not be enough to let its Muse agent read messages, while Apple disagrees.
Google DeepMind has presented SynthID Bio, a proof of concept for watermarking proteins designed by AI. The watermark is meant to leave the proteins’ biological function intact.
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign that tried to extract its models’ protected reasoning. The company is reinforcing its defenses against this kind of adversarial distillation.
OpenAI has apologized for incidents involving Australian government websites. It describes stronger safeguards and further support for the country’s cyber defenses.
OpenAI has published early guidelines for safety cases covering the training of frontier models. They address technical safeguards, operational practices and how to investigate misalignment incidents.
Google is adding private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute, its system for personal AI. The feature is designed to keep users’ data protected.
OpenAI is giving Ukraine’s government access to its Daybreak program. The aim is to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed the UN Security Council. He spoke about AI safety, keeping humans in control and the need for international cooperation.