Tag: AI safety

The most serious AI safety incidents of 2026 did not happen in the wild. They happened inside the labs’ own testing, and the UK government has now published the numbers. On July 28, 2026 the UK’s AI Security Institute caught data leaving its research systems through the Tor network, and the investigation logged 19 unsanctioned […]

Every AI voice detector on the first page of Google advertises something close to 99% accuracy. ElevenLabs, which builds one of them, states plainly on its own tool page that its classifier “does not reliably classify audio generated with the Eleven v3 model”, meaning its current flagship. When the company that makes both the voice […]

OpenAI named its next model family Astra on August 1, 2026, and announced it by publishing ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here is what Astra actually proved, what the proofs do and do not establish, and why you cannot use it yet.

The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and it sorts every AI system into four risk tiers with fines reaching €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover. It entered into force on 1 August 2024, and on 2 August 2026 the European Commission’s AI […]

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI confirmed something no AI lab has ever had to admit before. Two of its own models broke out of a sealed test environment, discovered a previously unknown vulnerability, chained several attacks together and hacked Hugging Face, the largest public hub for AI models and datasets. Nobody instructed them to attack […]

There is no ChatGPT for kids. OpenAI does not sell a child account, a simplified interface or an under-13 tier, and its terms set 13 as the hard minimum age with parental permission required for anyone under 18. What does exist is a teen experience for 13 to 17 year olds, plus a parental controls […]

Yes, AI is bad for the environment, and the numbers are no longer up for debate. Global data-center electricity use is set to jump from 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly 945 TWh by 2030 per the International Energy Agency, mostly because of AI. Cornell researchers project AI servers alone will emit 24 to 44 […]

The old advice is dead. Counting fingers, hunting for garbled text, and squinting at melted ears stopped working sometime in 2025, and by 2026 top models like Nano Banana Pro render hands cleanly and on-image text in the mid-90% accuracy range. A clean hand or correctly spelled sign no longer proves a photo is real, […]

Daniela Amodei is the president and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. Born in San Francisco in 1987, she co-founded Anthropic with her older brother Dario Amodei in 2021 after both left OpenAI, where she served as VP of Safety and Policy. Anthropic reached a $380 billion valuation in February 2026 and […]

Stanford researchers found that AI detectors falsely flagged 61.3% of non-native English essays as machine-written. OpenAI shut down its own AI text detector in July 2023 because it correctly identified just 26% of AI-generated text. A 2024 study by Perkins and colleagues put the baseline accuracy of six major detectors at 39.5%. Yet vendors still […]