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Safety, Evals & Alignment
AI safety, alignment, evaluations, model behaviour and dangerous-capability research.
Oct 14, 2026 → Oct 17, 2026 · 1 story
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Briefing #6 — AI News Week of 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-13
Oct 3, 2026 → Oct 13, 2026 · 2 stories
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Briefing #4 — AI News Week of 2026-09-26 to 2026-10-02
Sep 26, 2026 → Oct 2, 2026 · 5 stories
The flagship that failed its own bar: OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra
OpenAI
UK AISI measured GPT-6 Astra attacking supply chains in 29.2% of runs
UK AI Security Institute
The gated exploit model is now a free download
Anthropic (reporting on Z.ai / Zhipu AI)
Four in five agent sessions contained a false claim
Reuters (reporting by Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen, Beijing; edited by Kenneth Li and Edmund Blair)
DeepMind's proteins now carry a signature that survives the lab
Google DeepMind
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Briefing #2 — AI News Week of 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-22
Sep 18, 2026 → Sep 22, 2026 · 2 stories
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Briefing #1 — AI News Week of 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-17
Sep 10, 2026 → Sep 17, 2026 · 9 stories
OpenAI publishes AI misalignment disclosure framework after six internal incidents
OpenAI
OpenAI classifies GPT-6 Astra as 'Critical' under its national-security framework
OpenAI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes 'We Must Pace the Frontier' safety essay
Anthropic
Anthropic launches Life Sciences Verification Program with more permissive biosecurity safeguards for Mythos, Opus and Sonnet
Anthropic
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman publishes 'A warning about model welfare' essay
Microsoft AI
Mark Zuckerberg's first major AI-safety comments: natural incentive, Muse delay, FTC counterweight
Meta
Hugging Face launches Open Alignment Initiative with industry consortium
Hugging Face
Musk, Altman and Hassabis publicly endorse each other's frontier-release strategies
xAI / OpenAI / Google DeepMind
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI board (OpenAI Foundation Board + Safety and Security Committee)
OpenAI
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Briefing #5 — AI News Week of 2026-09-03 to 2026-10-07
Sep 3, 2026 → Oct 7, 2026 · 1 story
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