On Thursday morning, as the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) began the second day of its annual conference in Mexico City, a new member introduced…
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Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access |
Anthropic is giving employee-level access to six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, to independently assess Anthropic’s models, safety practices, and…
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect |
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims…
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns, and Tobias Gessler, three AI engineers at a startup called Axiom, recently fancied In-N-Out Burger for lunch. They weren’t about to…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' |
In Brief Posted: 7:35 AM PDT · October 5, 2026 A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On…
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports |
11:14 AM PDT · October 1, 2026 OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company information with…
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models,…
Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program |
Several security researchers say OpenAI suddenly revoked their access to a limited-access program that removes some restrictions on using its AI tools for cybersecurity research.…
Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks |
2:00 PM PDT · August 7, 2026 Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks and…
Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say |
In Brief Posted: 7:28 AM PDT · August 7, 2026 Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set…