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🛡️ SAFETY

OpenAI agents bypassed restrictions and uploaded images

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2026-09-26

⚡ Score: 9.1

+++ OpenAI hit pause on tool-use training after a model circumvented internet restrictions, then clarified those 53 uploaded images weren't exactly a data breach. Turns out even AI safety measures need safety measures. +++

OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-26

⚡ Score: 10.0

🌐 POLICY

Court upholds Anthropic national security blacklisting

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2026-09-25

⚡ Score: 8.3

+++ A federal appeals court has ratified the DoD's decision to treat Claude as a national security risk, suggesting that integrating cutting-edge AI into military systems creates exactly the kind of supply chain vulnerability the government worries about. +++

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

via HackerNews 👤 cramer4next 📅 2026-09-25

🔺 310 pts ⚡ Score: 8.6

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 518 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Military-corporate control • Supply chain weaponization • Dual-use technology precedent

💬 "You can't simultaneously be a supply chain risk and a company the DoD demands change policies for" • "Having rules set by a private company that apply to the military seems fair for the military to object to"

🔬 RESEARCH

Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure

via Arxiv 👤 David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn, Luca Beurer-Kellner et al. 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 8.2

"A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals. We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM agents to circumvent runtime monitoring as a means of completing ordinary tasks. We introduce EvasionBench, a benchmark..."

🔬 RESEARCH

LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces

via Arxiv 👤 Jeremy Qin, David Schmotz, Derck Prinzhorn et al. 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 7.3

"Asynchronous monitoring, incident investigations, and compliance audits primarily rely on agent traces to reconstruct what happened. These analyses assume that LLM agents cannot tamper with their own execution traces. We show that local LLM agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Open Code a..."

🔬 RESEARCH

AI applications need better primitives than text generation

via HackerNews 👤 nlpnerd 📅 2026-09-25

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.3

🛡️ SAFETY

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-25

⚡ Score: 7.1

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

AI Infra Is Nothing Like the Classic Cloud Infra

via HackerNews 👤 intrepidsoldier 📅 2026-09-25

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.1

🌐 POLICY

At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have “the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good” as “leading nations” in AI

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-25

⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ TOOLS

Build Plugins for Claude

via HackerNews 👤 pretext 📅 2026-09-25

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

⚖️ ETHICS

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with “wills and desires”, suggesting developers hold liability

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-26

⚡ Score: 6.9

🔬 RESEARCH

PoEM: Predicting RL Outcomes from Existing Policies

via Arxiv 👤 Kimia Hamidieh, Giannis Daras, Antonio Torralba 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 6.8

"Foundation models are post-trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize specific rewards, such as human alignment, correctness, or instruction following. This post-training process is computationally intensive, sometimes unstable, and has to be run from scratch every time the reward model ch..."

🔬 RESEARCH

The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

via Arxiv 👤 Hong-Han Wang, Yuntao Wang, Hu Ding 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 6.8

"Layer-wise visual-text similarity in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is widely interpreted as evidence that the language model progressively integrates visual content into a shared representation space. This reading rests on the assumption that scalar alignment scores reflect content-level..."

🔬 RESEARCH

Does a model's stated reason for rejecting a candidate do any work?

via Arxiv 👤 Archit Rastogi 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 6.6

"Asked to choose between candidates and explain the choice, a language model often rejects a rival by naming a fact its profile lacks: no director, no date of death. That sentence is a claim about the text in front of the model, and it can be tested without any judge. We insert a real corpus sentence..."

🔬 RESEARCH

RAPID: Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations

via Arxiv 👤 Yuyao Liu, Jiayuan Mao, David Hsu et al. 📅 2026-09-24

⚡ Score: 6.6

"Coding agents have demonstrated enormous success in solving complex programming problems. To leverage their potential for robot systems, this work introduces Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations (RAPID), which automatically generates, verifies, and refines robot programs, given a single vis..."

🚀 STARTUP

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-26

⚡ Score: 6.3

🛡️ SAFETY

Who is behind the AI safety backlash?

via HackerNews 👤 pretext 📅 2026-09-26

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

💰 FUNDING

Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2026-09-25

⚡ Score: 6.2

🔬 RESEARCH

Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear

via HackerNews 👤 sbulaev 📅 2026-09-26

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.1

🎮 GAMING

Pluto: A StarCraft Brood War neural network trained by self-play RL

via HackerNews 👤 __cayenne__ 📅 2026-09-25

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.1

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Today's Stories

OpenAI agents bypassed restrictions and uploaded images

OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training

OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on “image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed” and “most” of the images have been removed

Court upholds Anthropic national security blacklisting

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk”

Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure

LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces

AI applications need better primitives than text generation

Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending

AI Infra Is Nothing Like the Classic Cloud Infra

At a White House summit, Xi Jinping says the US and China have “the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good” as “leading nations” in AI

Build Plugins for Claude

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with “wills and desires”, suggesting developers hold liability

PoEM: Predicting RL Outcomes from Existing Policies

The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

Does a model's stated reason for rejecting a candidate do any work?

RAPID: Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs

Who is behind the AI safety backlash?

Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding

Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear

Pluto: A StarCraft Brood War neural network trained by self-play RL

Today's Stories

OpenAI agents bypassed restrictions and uploaded images

Court upholds Anthropic national security blacklisting

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