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Last updated: Nov 3, 2026 · Back to home
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As AI becomes more capable at finding vulnerabilities, defenders need to put it to work before attackers do. We’re planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI and partnering with Cathedral Systems, whose researchers will use our models along
For AGI to benefit all of humanity, it should help people with the everyday tasks that matter most to them. So we built LifeVal, a new benchmark shaped by feedback from thousands of ChatGPT users on where they most want help from a personal assistant
Applications are now open for the Anthropic Residency, a paid, fixed-term research program for academics, technical founders, and staff-level engineers who want to make AI safe and beneficial for everyone. No ML background is required. Apply by Novem
The longer the conversation, the higher the success rate for voice agents. We analyzed 469 agents running both voice and chat in production and saw an interesting pattern. When the conversation gets complex, voice is the fastest path to resolution. h
New Anthropic research: Automating subtle emergent misalignment research. Red-teaming is a vital part of model safety testing, but it’s also limited by researchers’ time. To see if we could automate it, we set thousands of Claude agents the task of e
We built PlanAssist to help UK Government planning officers speed up building and renovations across the country. Built with Gemini, it has shown it can cut the time planning officers spend assessing householder applications by up to 58%. It is now b
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Real-time agents still lose ground when the clock keeps running
Import AI’s excerpt describes Realtime-Bench dynamic tasks and reports a 36% top wall-clock pass rate, against roughly 70–80% with paused time.
ReadOpenAI describes an operational security sprint with Cathedral Systems
OpenAI says it plans an internal security sprint in which Cathedral Systems researchers will use its models alongside internal teams to challenge defenses.
ReadGoogle’s Dreambeans experiment expands to 13 Indian languages
TechCrunch reports Google’s AI-generated personal-story experiment now supports 13 Indian languages.
ReadAnthropic adds a boundary against cloning existing games in Claude Code
The Verge reports Claude Code’s system prompt was updated to block recreating existing video games.
ReadAutomated red-teaming could scale safety research—but evidence matters
Anthropic says it tasked thousands of Claude agents with evading training-data detection as part of research into automated red-teaming.
ReadAgents are competing to coordinate work across applications
Recent newsletter coverage describes Salesforce routing work to Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, Oracle exploring business apps in ChatGPT, and a ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance. The competition is for the layer that connects requests, tools, and business systems.
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