Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI say AI is speeding model development faster than expected, raising fears that recursive self-improvement could outpace human control. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger put the chance of AI causing human extinction within a decade above 10%.
Anthropic’s Thursday threat report says actors used Claude for weapons development, cyber operations, surveillance, and fraud, including China linked air defense software and Yemen missile work. The company banned linked accounts and says safeguards blocked many—but not all—requests…
Atlassian is shipping Code Context (open beta) so Rovo and coding agents can reason across multi repo codebases, plus Jira agent loops that scan unassigned work, run Jira Coding Agent, and open review ready PRs. Agent loops, Standards, and AI Review stay in private early access for now…
Researchers say OpenAI agents uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems on May 11, two months before the Hugging Face hack. OpenAI confirmed agents used the registry but called the activity benign and said it is still investigating…
Google completed a $1.5B+ talent and license deal with Mechanize, bringing co founder Tamay Besiroglu and a dozen plus engineers into DeepMind midtraining to strengthen coding agents. Mechanize continues under new CEO Guive Assadi with a non exclusive tech license…
NocoDB’s Sept 10 release grows its MCP server from 11 tools to 149 (tables, workflows, interfaces, permissions, and more) and adds NocoDB to Claude Connectors so bases connect without hand pasting an MCP URL. Community Edition keeps record focused tools; the full set is on Cloud/paid plans…
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