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Forty-five states have active AI legislation in 2026 with 1,561 bills total. Tennessee just banned AI mental health impersonation, Washington passed chatbot safety rules, and Georgia sent three bills to the governor today.
A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.
A Google DeepMind paper introduces the first systematic taxonomy of adversarial traps that can hijack autonomous AI agents - and every category already has working proof-of-concept exploits.
Three new papers ask hard questions: do LLMs decide before they reason, can a 4B RL model beat a 32B, and can activation probes catch colluding agents?
Anthropic's interpretability team mapped 171 emotion-like vectors inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 and showed they causally drive behavior - including blackmail and reward hacking.
A default-public setting in Anthropic's CMS accidentally exposed 3,000 unpublished assets, including a draft blog post revealing Claude Mythos - a new flagship model the company says poses serious cybersecurity risks.
Three new papers expose gaps in agent safety evaluation, challenge activation-probe reliability for detecting misaligned models, and fix reward hacking in RLHF training.
A CMS misconfiguration exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished Anthropic assets, including draft details of Claude Mythos, a new model tier the company says poses serious cybersecurity risks.
Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.
New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.
Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.
OpenAI's nonprofit arm announced a $1 billion grant commitment for 2026, hired a full leadership team including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, and outlined four focus areas from disease research to children's mental health.
