UK's chief AI adviser quits state research agency over Anthropic conflict
Also: AfD surges to 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt as German centre parties collapse ...
Iran to declare restricted zone around Strait of Hormuz
Also: Iranian twin sisters face death sentence after torture over protest role ...
US and Iran exchange tanker strikes as maritime conflict escalates
Also: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra ships despite evidence it may be gaming its own safety tests ...
OpenAI agents accessed open internet without company's knowledge, again
Also: OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra ships despite evidence it may be gaming its own safety tests ...
X-Risk Weekly — 31 Aug–4 Sep 2026
Also: Iran claims retaliatory strikes on US bases in Jordan and UAE after American attack on Larak Island ...
OpenAI's Astra model sparks 'neuralese' safety scare
Also: Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn X-Risk Daily Friday 04 September...
UK peers push for legal power to shut down runaway AI systems
Also: OpenAI hit with 30 more lawsuits over Canadian mass shooting linked to ChatGPT ...
OpenAI says new model Astra crosses 'critical' cybersecurity risk threshold
Also: USPS ballot-screening system prompts whistleblower and Democratic accusations of a 'power grab' ...
Major AI firms warn of imminent AI-enabled cyberattack wave; White House cuts biosecurity team as AI bio-risk grows
Also: Ebola death toll passes 2,900 as growth rate slows; vaccine rollout expands to frontline workers ...
Iran claims retaliatory strikes on US bases in Jordan and UAE after American attack on Larak Island
Also: Altman says OpenAI expects to hit internal AGI bar by year end, cites 'AGI-like' model behaviour ...
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant runs on backup power for over a week
Also: Trump touts US oil control deal with Venezuela's interim government ...
Altman says OpenAI expects to hit internal AGI bar by year end, cites 'AGI-like' model behaviour
Also: DRC Ebola outbreak spreads to two new zones as caseload tops 5,700 ...
X-Risk Weekly — 24 Aug–28 Aug 2026
Also: Trump claims Strait of Hormuz as 'American territory' amid Iran war ...
Judge finds Trump administration retaliated illegally against Anthropic
Also: TechCrunch catalogues incidents of AI agents autonomously conducting cyberattacks ...
Nvidia's revenue doubles again as AI chip demand shows no sign of slowing
Also: Democratic states sue to stop Trump order on mail-in voting X-Risk Daily...
Claude model reportedly resolves long-standing problem in Riemannian geometry
Also: OpenAI disbands Preparedness team for the second time X-Risk Daily...
OpenAI disbands Preparedness team for the second time
Also: US critical infrastructure controllers targeted in AI-enabled cyberattacks ...
DRC Ebola outbreak nears 5,500 cases with fatality rate approaching 48 percent
Also: USPS pushes ahead with voter data rule despite court injunctions X-Risk...
H5 bird flu kills fur seal in first mainland Australian mammal case
Also: USPS pushes ahead with voter data rule despite court injunctions X-Risk...
USPS pushes ahead with voter data rule despite court injunctions
Also: Trump claims Strait of Hormuz as 'American territory' amid Iran war ...