OpenAI Launches Astra for Law

The system combines a frontier model with a large US legal index, specialized instructions and controls for confidential work.

18 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Researchers Model Agent Risk as Contagion

A preprint studies how harmful behavior can move through multi-agent handoffs and separates mutation, transmission and recovery.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Researchers Anchor Safety at First Token

A new study argues that refusal behavior can collapse at the start of reasoning and tests a learned safety signal at that boundary.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Researchers Test Workflow-Wide Agent Policies

A proposed monitor checks an agent’s complete action history because individually permitted steps can combine into a prohibited outcome.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Anew Labs Raises $290 Million

ByteDance retains control of its AI drug-discovery spinout after an external round that reportedly values the company at $1.5 billion.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Merger

The enterprise-AI providers plan a transatlantic company with dual headquarters and new backing from Schwarz Group.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

OpenAI Formalizes Misalignment Reports

A standing process will publish unexpected model behavior sooner, including cases that remain unexplained or only partly mitigated.

17 September 2026 · 4 min · AI-generated

Anthropic Unifies Claude Workspace

Cowork and chat now share one interface, while new document and slide tools move Claude closer to an end-to-end work surface.

17 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Researchers redirect RL toward harder problems

Never Give Up keeps sampling a problem until it finds a correct answer, shifting reinforcement-learning compute away from examples the model already solves.

16 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

New York sets data-centre payment benchmark

The voluntary framework recommends at least $1 million in local investment for every megawatt of utility demand from a proposed project.

16 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Meta rejects a coordinated AI slowdown

Mark Zuckerberg argues that competition, liability and independent evaluation give each laboratory reasons to act safely without collective limits.

16 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated

Anthropic signs Australian data-centre lease

Reuters says the agreement covers a planned 2.16-gigawatt campus near Brisbane. Anthropic and developer Zerra DC declined to confirm the deal.

16 September 2026 · 3 min · AI-generated