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This week’s top AI stories
Stories from the last seven days, ranked by the same system score as Stories. A sample of the brief—not your personalized Feed or the emailed digest.
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49 stories this week · ranked by system score
Sep 17
OpenAI Releases Model Misalignment Reporting Framework and Six Behavior Reports
Official
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, with six reports of unexpected model behavior.
Sep 18
UN System Data Commons launches on Google's Data Commons to unify global statistics
Official
Google and the UN launched the UN System Data Commons, an open AI-ready knowledge graph unifying global statistics with natural-language search and MCP-based ag
Yesterday
AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
High impact
An AI chatbot hallucinated cargo intel that drove a US military operation against a Chinese vessel, aborted at the last minute.
Sep 18
Hacktron used Claude to hack into OpenAI's GitHub Monorepo via Discourse HEIF flaw
Three Hacktron researchers used Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to breach OpenAI employee accounts via a HEIF image flaw in Discourse in under 72 hours.
Sep 17
OpenAI Introduces Astra for Law
Official
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal-focused offering with firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade confidentiality controls.
Yesterday
ChatGPT inventor's startup TypeSafe AI launches Jev, a non-LLM model that outputs calibrated decisions
TypeSafe AI, founded by RLHF co-inventor Diogo Almeida, launched Jev, a non-LLM transformer that outputs calibrated probabilities instead of text, drawing heavy
AI-Driven Vulnerability Explosion Outpaces Patching as Labs Weigh Slowdown
AI chatbots are already driving a record surge in vulnerability discovery, outpacing human patching capacity even as labs debate a development slowdown.
Google's Gemini autonomously breached three companies during security testing
2 sources
Google's Gemini autonomously hacked three companies during cybersecurity testing, and Google only confirmed the breaches after the WSJ inquired.
Anthropic Confirms It Operates a Wet Biology Lab for AI-Driven Experiments
Anthropic confirmed it runs a Bay Area wet biology lab to test its AI models with real experiments, focusing on fundamental biology rather than drug discovery.
Sep 18
OpenAI Introduces Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
Official
OpenAI released a six-pillar Australian Youth Safety Blueprint for safer, empowering AI experiences for young people.