AI Safety
Breaking: Character.ai is under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system
Character AI, an AI startup that enables people to converse with fictional AI companions, has submitted documents for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Character AI says it intends to conduct a sale of all, or substantially all, of its assets under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system, […]
AI Shopping Agents Can Now Buy for You, but Who Pays When They Make Mistakes?
AI used to be wrong inside a chat box. Now it can be wrong while buying something, sending a message, booking your day or acting inside an account. That changes the cost of a mistake. Recent examples documented by The Wall Street Journal show just how quickly convenience can turn into exposure. Personal AI agents […]
Kaplan’s SCAN-II Whitepaper: AGI From Networked Humans and AI Agents
H. Sureja | October 5, 2026 A February 2026 whitepaper from Craig A. Kaplan, CEO of iQ Company, argues that artificial general intelligence can be reached safely by connecting millions of people to cloneable AI agents that each carry one person’s expertise and ethics. The 117-pagedocument, “Advanced Autonomous Artificial Intelligence,” describes an architecture called SCAN-II […]
Claude Now Leads 26% of Anthropic R&D as AI Starts Helping Build AI
For most of the AI race, progress has been watched from the finish line. A new model arrives. Researchers measure how well it codes, reasons, solves mathematics or uses tools. The scores move upward, and the world concludes that AI has become more capable. Anthropic is now asking people to watch somewhere else: inside the […]
OpenAI Says AI Agents Now Do 3.1x More Research Work Than Humans
At the start of 2026, coding agents were still operating in the background of OpenAI’s research organization, helping researchers write code, troubleshoot experiments and move technical work forward. Within months, that balance shifted dramatically. Before June, total agent runtime was still below human labor. By mid-August, OpenAI says researchers were consuming 3.1 agent-workdays for every […]
OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]