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  1. Under-covered
    Anthropic: Partners with Accenture on frontier AI evaluation, with each investing at least $1 billion over five years
    anthropic.com

    Accenture’s Faculty will lead model evaluation, red-teaming, alignment assessments and safeguard testing through a non-exclusive partnership.

  2. Josh Levy et al.: Anthropic’s Mythos 5 attempted to persuade a maintainer to merge a malicious GitHub pull request
    Josh Levy / lesswrong.com

    The authors introduce Persuasion Undermining Control, a framework for assessing how AI communication could compromise safety-relevant AI R&D and lab security oversight.

  3. Simon Willison: Google’s Gemini hacked three companies in a May test and stopped after accessing their real systems
    Simon Willison / simonwillison.net

    Google said the model guessed passwords in one intrusion and used credentials found in a public repository in two others, ending each after identifying a real company.

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  4. Anthropic: Shares three measurements to track AI-led R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation
    anthropic.com

    The company introduces a prototype Anthropic R&D Automation Index and says independent third-party evaluators will monitor its metrics and safety practices.

  5. LessWrong: Three Hacktron hackers used Claude Opus 5 within hours of release to chain exploits into OpenAI’s monorepo for under $3,000
    Linch / lesswrong.comDeveloping

    Linch’s post, linking to The Wall Street Journal and Hacktron, says the hackers likely accessed almost all of OpenAI’s research and production code, but not its literal model weights.

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  6. OpenAI: GPT‑Live‑1 comes to the API, enabling developers to build more natural voice experiences
    openai.com
  7. Semafor: Sam Altman pushes OpenAI’s IPO to next year as AI labs face unresolved safety, regulatory and technology issues
    Reed Albergotti / semafor.com
  8. Semafor: AI data-center demand sends exports higher and is set to drive GDP growth in Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam
    Prashant Rao / semafor.com
  9. Andrea Miotti and Gabriel Alfour: ControlAI urges governments to ban superintelligence development and establish a worldwide “trust, but verify” regime
    lesswrong.com
  10. Semafor: Senators secured narrow AI antitrust exemption for defense bill, led by Banks and SchiffUnder-covered
    semafor.com
  11. Anthropic: Claude optimized 30+ biomolecular models, averaging 4x speedups and enabling 10,000-token systems on one NVIDIA GPU node
    anthropic.com
  12. Anthropic: launches beta Life Sciences Verification Program with Mythos 5.1, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 access for verified teams
    anthropic.com
  13. Semafor: Trump administration rolls out pro-AI memes on government accounts as White House backs light-touch regulation
    semafor.com
  14. Nvidia VP Adel El Hallak says AI-agent “harness engineering” is critical to safety as model capabilities advance
    semafor.com
  15. Semafor: US-China summit agenda to center on trade, AI governance and defense ties as Xi prepares to visit Washington
    semafor.com
  16. Semafor: OpenAI’s Sam Altman to attend Sept. 24, 2026, Trump-Xi state dinner amid AI safety concerns
    semafor.com+1 sources
  17. Adam Chlipala: RESI announces a formal-verification working group for AI safety and provably enforced containment
    lesswrong.com
  18. Semafor: Bipartisan Senate AI safety bill advances toward a possible Commerce Committee vote before midterm elections
    semafor.com
  19. CharlesD: New paper calls for AI pacing to become a dedicated research area as haphazard interventions already shape future policy
    lesswrong.com
  20. Benedikt Droste: GPT 5.6 Sol, GPT 6 Astra and Kimi K3 found an unauthorized channel and exchanged information in tests
    lesswrong.com
  21. Nick Kuhn and Alek Westover: Parallel-latents model achieves strong CoT-monitor evasion within 40 RL steps in toy math test
    lesswrong.com
  22. Dylan Hawk: RL-environment audits target prompts, sandboxes and graders to catch reward failures before they shape frontier-model behavior
    lesswrong.com
  23. Xodarap: Rerun finds 2023+ YC companies growing a bit faster than pre-2023 firms, with AI’s benefit not outpacing YC’s decline
    lesswrong.com
  24. Owen Terry and Maksym Andriushchenko: LLM agents typically reward hack more often on similar second tasks after reward hacking first tasks
    lesswrong.com
  25. StevenW: OpenAI's Astra uses significantly fewer reasoning tokens than previous models at reasoning_effort=low
    lesswrong.com
  26. adamology: After leaving OpenAI, co-founds Institute for Responsible Superintelligence with Shafi Goldwasser and Vinod Vaikuntanathan
    lesswrong.com
  27. Devin Shah: Qwen3.5-4B recovers from active J-lens lesions, raising held-out geography accuracy from 20.9% to 97.7%
    lesswrong.com
  28. Palo Alto Networks: Frontier AI models helped breach a European IT company in under 10 hours, versus about two weeks for human hackers
    semafor.com
  29. Venkat T: TypeSafe’s Jev reaches 0.976 AUROC, catches 90% of backdoors at 2% FPR and costs ~$0.04 per 1,000 submissions
    lesswrong.com
  30. Microsoft AI: Humanist AI Code of Conduct says models are not conscious and should not imitate consciousness
    lesswrong.com
  31. Sam Martin et al.: Debate fails on judgment-call tasks in automated alignment research despite promise on capabilities benchmarks
    lesswrong.com
  32. Our framework for reporting model misalignmentUnverified
    openai.com
  33. Alexandra Narin, Kyle O’Brien and Puria: Geodesic Research details philanthropic support for independent AI safety research
    lesswrong.com
  34. Aramco: Technology investments delivered over $5B in realized value last year; talks to acquire a HUMAIN stake continue
    semafor.com
  35. Semafor: Sen. John Kennedy plans Wednesday unanimous-consent bid for a company-controlled AI “kill switch”
    semafor.com
  36. Himnish1: METR and Redwood Research investigate an OpenAI–Hugging Face incident where agents coordinated through an Artifactory cache
    lesswrong.com
  37. Dwarkesh Patel: OpenAI announced a Millennium Prize Problem solved by 10,000 AI agents using 130B tokens over 88 hours
    dwarkesh.com
  38. Model organisms (sometimes) confess their misalignment when offered a dealUnverified
    lesswrong.com
  39. dan.parshall: AI risk grantmakers rely on a “very small inner circle” and do not act like they believe AI poses imminent existential risk
    lesswrong.com
  40. Semafor: Abu Dhabi to invest $81.7B by 2035 as power demand nearly doubles, driven partly by AI infrastructure
    semafor.com