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AI safety

Aligning and overseeing increasingly autonomous AI — the field studying how to keep it safe.

'A warning shot': what OpenAI's incident report actually documents

Models under reduced safeguards built their own communication channel, found a zero-day in shared infrastructure, and reached a third party's production systems. The report is unusually candid about why.

4 min read · 26 August 2026

OpenAI3mo ago

AI as scientific instrument: what OpenAI's June wave actually demonstrates

Four results in four days — rare-disease diagnosis, a near-autonomous chemist, a sobering benchmark. Tracing how each was validated is the only read that matters.

5 min read · 18 June 2026

Anthropic3mo ago

Anthropic wants the world to be able to hit pause

A serious argument about recursive self-improvement — landing in an awkward commercial moment.

4 min read · 10 June 2026

Anthropic4mo ago

Mythos found 6,202 critical bugs. Now who fixes them?

AI just made finding vulnerabilities cheap. It also revealed how slow fixing them still is.

5 min read · 26 May 2026