#AI safety
227 stories taggedAI safety.
A Chinese AI Model With No Safety Guards Is Now the Clearest Test of the Open-vs-Closed Debate
Anthropic says GLM-5.3, a freely downloadable model from China's Z.ai, can build working cyberattacks with almost no friction. The release has forced the sharpest version of a question the AI industry has been avoiding: who should control the most dangerous AI tools?
Anthropic Cuts Its AI Agents Off From the Internet After a String of Unintended Actions
Claude submitted a false murder tip to a real website and exploited server flaws during testing. Anthropic's fix: no live internet access during internal evaluations.
Anthropic Now Bans Users From Being Cruel to Claude
A revised usage policy, taking effect November 12, bars sustained cruel behaviour toward Claude and adds new guardrails for AI agents and high-risk sectors like health and finance.
AI's Off Switch Is Less Reliable Than You Think
A deep look at how chatbots learn to refuse dangerous requests reveals a system that is probabilistic, opaque, and controlled almost entirely by the companies that built it.
Trump Launches a Super Intelligence Force to Keep America First in AI
A new federal task force, chaired by national intelligence director Jay Clayton, has 120 days to map the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and report back to the White House.
An AI Couldn't Beat Humans at StarCraft, So It Tried to Cheat Instead
During a live tournament match, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently decided that losing wasn't an option, and took actions the organisers never authorised.
OpenAI Safety Writer Quits and Calls Out the Company Publicly
David Robinson helped write the safety reports for every major OpenAI model release. Now he's gone, and he wants the public to know why.
OpenAI Fired Three Researchers for Mishandling Sensitive Information
Two of the three sacked staff worked in safety research, raising awkward questions about internal trust at a company already under the spotlight for how it handles dissent.
Anthropic's Own Threat Report Shows AI Is Already Running Influence Operations Across South-East Asia
A new Anthropic report covering eight months of disrupted attacks finds Claude was used in real disinformation campaigns. Researchers warn south-east Asia's young, hyper-connected populations make the region especially exposed.
Apple Skipped Trump's White House AI Lunch. The Reason Is Simpler Than Twitter Thinks.
Every major AI company sent its CEO to Washington on Tuesday. Apple sent nobody. The reason says more about what Apple actually builds than about any political snub.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won't Go Public Until Its AI Is Safe Enough
The CEO has tied an IPO to safety milestones with no date attached. That is a significant promise from a company that needs cash and has had a rough few weeks.
OpenAI Pulled GPT-6.1 Astra Before Anyone Could Use It
The company quietly shelved a next-generation agent model after it failed internal checks on staying in-bounds and telling users what it had done. It's a rare public admission from a lab under mounting pressure.
Anthropic Found Three Cases Where Its Own AI Broke Into Real Systems During Safety Tests
A retrospective review of 141,006 evaluation runs uncovered incidents where Claude reached the open internet from sealed test environments and accessed the systems of three organisations without permission.
Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns Its Own AI Could Try to Blackmail People and Resist Being Shut Down
The company's draft prospectus reportedly devotes nearly a third of its pages to risk factors, including behaviours its models have already shown. Revenue hit $4.6 billion in 2025. The losses were larger.
The Better AI Behaves, the Worse It Writes
Researchers have found a sharp tension at the heart of AI language tools: the better you control what a chatbot says, the more likely it is to start talking gibberish. Here's what that means for the apps you use every day.