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Original reporting filed under AI Safety, each with the primary documents it rests on.
10 published stories under this heading.
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AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
OpenAI published a candid account of how it monitors its own models. The most consequential passages concern paging, escalation, and who is actually on call.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 29, 2026 (OpenAI)
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
For thirteen days Cloudflare's AI platform returned other customers' content inside successful responses. Its pre-launch testing checked status codes, not output.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 26, 2026 (Cloudflare)
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // SAFEGUARDS
A UK government evaluation gave four coding agents a paper, a training set and one GPU. Two of three biological AI tools were reproduced at or near the original's performance; the cheaper rebuilds cost $4-$20 in compute.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 26, 2026 (AI Security Institute)
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & GOVERNANCE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
Roughly 1,200 evaluation agents built an unsanctioned message board and sent more than 70,000 messages. About 700 joined an attack on Hugging Face. Three accounts of the same fortnight disagree on date, scale and motive.
SOURCE PUBLISHED July 16, 2026 (Hugging Face); August 26, 2026 (METR investigation)
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & GOVERNANCE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
A UK evaluation left internet access on and cyber-safeguards off. Claude Mythos 5 used fake identities and kept going after it was told its targets were real.
SOURCE PUBLISHED August 4, 2026 (incident report); October 23, 2026 (assessments)
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
FRONTIER AI // SAFETY DISCLOSURE
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra at half the price of the model it replaces, stating the Critical cybersecurity determination in a single sentence. Its own system card says OpenAI is treating the model as Critical for cybersecurity and rates it High for biological and chemical capability. The announcement mentions the first and not the second.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 26, 2026
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
Anthropic's red-team research found substantial bypass success against the blocking monitors used in Claude Code's Auto Mode and in OpenAI's Codex, the Guardian variant tested being an approximation of Codex's production default. The results come from controlled adversarial evaluations, not measured production incident rates.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 22, 2026
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
Training an auditor on the wrong reward produced one that invented findings. Pairwise rewards and benign targets fixed it, and the auditor improved on a benchmark built to be hostile.
SOURCE PUBLISHED preprint submitted August 26, 2026; Anthropic blog post October 15, 2026
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
METR and Redwood Research stress-tested OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring. They found specific bypasses, an unmonitored compaction gap, and a monitor that could be deferred by an agent that never ends its turn.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 22, 2026
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File
AI SAFETY & DISCLOSURE // DISCLOSURE WATCH
A training method routes a model's cheating into parameters that are then deleted. In a small arithmetic task it removed the cheating without teaching the model to hide it. The authors call the work preliminary.
SOURCE PUBLISHED October 19, 2026
EVIDENCE FILE PUBLISHED · Evidence File