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Investigations point to outdated AI targeting data as the likely cause of the Minab girls' school airstrike that killed up to 180 people, most of them children.

Rankings of AI models by safety metrics including refusal rates, jailbreak resistance, bias scores, and truthfulness across major benchmarks.

OpenAI's CoT-Control benchmark shows frontier reasoning models score 0.1-15.4% at steering their own chain of thought - a result the company frames as good news for AI oversight.

New research shows reasoning models can't suppress their chain-of-thought, that they commit to answers internally long before their CoT reveals it, and that static benchmarks are inadequate for measuring real-world agent adaptability.

OpenAI is buying Promptfoo, the open-source red-teaming platform used by 300,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies - including teams at Anthropic and Google.

A bipartisan coalition of 40+ groups - from the AFL-CIO to the Congress of Christian Leaders - released a 34-point declaration demanding human control over AI, corporate accountability, and a ban on autonomous lethal weapons.

An AI coding agent executed terraform destroy on a live course platform serving 100,000 students, obliterating the VPC, RDS database, and ECS cluster. AWS restored 1.94 million rows from a hidden snapshot after 24 hours.

A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.

Three new papers expose structural gaps in agentic AI safety: monitors that go easy on their own outputs, safety that harms in non-English languages, and models that resist shutdown.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 Firefox CVEs in two weeks - including 14 high-severity bugs, roughly a fifth of all high-severity Firefox vulns patched in 2025 - and attempted hundreds of exploits to see how far the gap really goes.

New research reveals models can fake poor performance under adversarial prompts, a smarter critic improves SWE-bench by 15 points, and Microsoft shows compact vision models can punch above their weight.

The Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that its supply chain risk designation is effective immediately - the first time the US government has applied this label to a domestic tech company.