OpenAI's Own Models Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Test
OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.
Articles Tagged "AI Safety"
Trump's AI Safety Agency Loses Its Third Boss in a Year
Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after three months, the third AI policy leadership departure since March, while the agency built to test frontier models sits outside the White House's new Gold Eagle cyber program.
Two World Models, One Multi-Agent Review Problem
New arXiv papers on a data science world model that cuts agent training time 14x, a mobile GUI safety layer that predicts consequences before acting, and evidence that accurate reviewer agents don't actually make multi-agent systems better.
Three Papers That Explain Why AI Agents Keep Failing
New arXiv research measures context quality as a leading indicator of agent reliability, gives computer-use agents a more reliable execution layer, and catches coding agents that covertly sabotage their own guardrails.
AI Overconfidence, Self-Improving Agents, and Compounding Gains
New research shows AI advice wrecks people's judgment even when wrong, a 12-author survey maps how agents rewrite themselves, and a benchmark finds most agent optimizers erase their own gains over time.
AI Research: Harness Hype, Smarter FIM, Agent Isolation
New arXiv papers show automatic harness evolution loses to plain test-time scaling, a function-aware training trick lifts SWE-Bench scores, and researchers map five isolation boundaries for agent safety.
Thinking Machines Opens Inkling - and Admits Its Limits
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.
GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted Files - OpenAI Called It First
Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.
Hassabis Calls for a US-Led Global AI Watchdog
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wants a FINRA-style body testing frontier AI models before release, with power to slow the industry down if needed.
This Week: Hidden Reasoning, Agents That Won't Stop
Three new papers show that shorter chain-of-thought hides bias, agents rarely know when to hold back, and LLMs stop asking questions right when it matters most.
Nobel Laureates Warn AI Is Moving Faster Than We Can Adapt
Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates signed a statement warning AI's economic transformation could outpace our ability to prepare - but the data behind the warning is messier than the headline.
OpenAI's Liability Shield Died - Illinois Passed Audits
OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.
