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Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthrop

Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are te

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more — “We never

Yael Grauer / The Verge: Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models — Security researche

Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as 700M at a 3.7B valuation — Researchers leaving Big

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki called for an artificial intelligence research slowdown in an essay published on Sunday, after other prominent industry figures have expressed similar v

The Guardian: Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to sta

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu

Will Knight / Wired: Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext — Researchers devis

Proactive agents that anticipate user needs and autonomously execute tasks hold great promise as digital assistants, yet the lack of realistic user simulation frameworks hinders their development. Exi

Cade Metz / New York Times: University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers a

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fal

Bloomberg: A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs — When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and

Dylan Freedman / New York Times: Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs — A new

Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today introduced a Model Context Protocol server that lets people access the company’s consumer and market research from AI tools such as OpenAI Group PBC’s Ch

Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligen

In September 2026 Hacktron AI researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit a flaw in OpenAI’s community‑forum hosting configuration, giving them access to an employee’s ChatGPT account and confident

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Jou

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” — T

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence 'could kill all humans' by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned ove

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Ch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine yea

Agentic artificial intelligence startup Echovane Inc. said today it has closed on a 1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-native market research platform. Titan Capi

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April

A new economic analysis from theCUBE Research found that migrating from a fragmented, on-premises data estate to Oracle Corp.’s Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver meaningful modernizatio

Neurologyca, a company working on human-centric artificial intelligence, announced the launch of a research division on Tuesday dedicated to advancing AI models’ ability to understand and adapt to peo

Artificial intelligence inference startup Sail Research Inc. today announced that it has raised 80 million in funding at a 450 million valuation. The company received the bulk of the capital in the fo

Microsoft engaged in a public feud with security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse, who released multiple Windows zero-days along with proof-of-concept exploit code. Microsoft initially threatened legal ac

This article covers the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint for building specialized deep research agents that empower AI systems to gather context, synthesize information, and support complex decision-making acros

OpenAI Group PBC has developed a version of GPT-5.5 that is specifically optimized for cybersecurity research. GPT‑5.5‑Cyber, as the model is called, made its debut on Thursday. It’s available in limi

This newsletter covers three main topics: advances in automating alignment research to improve AI safety processes, a safety evaluation study of a Chinese AI model, and technical details about HiFloat

Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share — Iva

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub — OpenAI has

TriNetX is a global health research network that connects pharmaceutical companies, study sites, investigators, and patients by leveraging real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records acros...

Anthropic didn't release their latest model, Claude Mythos (system card PDF), today. They have instead made it available to a very restricted set of preview partners under their newly announced Projec

Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised 90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised 90M at a 1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises —

Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says it “parted ways” with three researchers for violating its “handling sensitive” info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization — OpenAI has parte

Salesforce Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire artificial intelligence customer research startup Listen Labs Inc., three weeks after reports first surfaced that the two companies were in

Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised 140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. S32, a fund affiliated with Google LLC co-founder Bill Maris, led the Series C rou

OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6 Astra in a leg

Pew Research Center: Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses — For the first tim

CNBC: OpenAI unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work made with “design partners” Morgan Stanley and Evercore to research like an analyst — OpenAI is taking aim at some of Wal

Madison Mills / Axios: AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI — Anthropic rese

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and advisor at CAISI, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee — Paul Christiano, an influ

Frontier artificial intelligence research is moving into security operations, and the arrival of a cyber superintelligence lab at one of the industry’s largest platform companies marks how far that sh