Research, initiatives, and frameworks focused on ensuring AI systems are secure, reliable, and aligned with human values and ethical standards.
Caitlin Kalinowski has resigned from OpenAI, citing concerns about the company's agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense and the lack of safeguards around surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticized OpenAI’s new defense deal, calling its messaging dishonest and accusing it of engaging in 'safety theater' after Anthropic’s own talks with the Pentagon collapsed over ethical safeguards.
Kinetech has launched GovShield, a secure AI platform designed for law enforcement and government agencies, built on the Mendix low-code platform to meet CJIS compliance standards.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reiterated that the company will not remove safeguards preventing its AI from being used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, despite Pentagon threats to label it a supply chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act.
OpenCxMS Technologies has filed 15 patents within 13 days for the Standardized Autonomous Safety Module, an open hardware and software standard designed to enforce safety in AI-controlled robots.
AnChain.AI has announced a partnership with NUVA to integrate its AI-driven blockchain security and compliance tools into NUVA’s marketplace for tokenized real-world assets, strengthening institutional trust and regulatory readiness.
Norm Ai has launched its legal and compliance AI platform on Microsoft Marketplace, built on Microsoft Foundry and integrated into Microsoft 365 to embed compliance oversight into everyday workflows.
CHAI announced it has reached $68 million in annual recurring revenue and a $1.4 billion valuation while introducing new AI safety protocols aligned with EU and NIST standards.
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has released a report detailing how threat actors are increasingly using AI for phishing, reconnaissance, and malware development, while also conducting model extraction attacks targeting proprietary AI systems.
Astrix Security has launched the OpenClaw Scanner, a free tool designed to detect instances of the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw across enterprise environments, addressing security concerns over autonomous AI agents.
Eve Security has filed a patent for its new 'Interrogation-as-a-Service' technology, designed to control and audit AI agent actions in real time. The system introduces a reasoning-before-execution approach to enhance safety and compliance in enterprise AI operations.
OpenAI has disbanded its mission alignment team, with members reassigned across the company, while former team head Josh Achiam becomes chief futurist.
Skan AI has introduced the Agentic Ontology of Work (AOW), a standardized framework designed to unify how humans and AI agents collaborate within enterprise systems. The ontology defines key elements like agents, skills, intents, and policies to improve interoperability and governance in agentic automation.
Alice has released Caterpillar, a free open-source security tool designed to identify malicious behaviors in AI agent skills within OpenClaw. The tool follows a case where several harmful skills were found active among over 6,000 users.
Bounteous has announced a new series of Claude Code Labs in partnership with Anthropic, offering hands-on workshops for enterprise teams to integrate Claude Code responsibly into their environments.
Aura has announced plans to acquire Qoria through an Australian scheme of arrangement, with the combined company set to trade on the ASX under the ticker AXQ. The deal, expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, will create a global leader in online safety and wellbeing solutions.
DC Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Knexus, an applied AI company serving U.S. government agencies. The partnership aims to accelerate Knexus's growth and expand its AI solutions for defense and civilian missions.
The 2026 International AI Safety Report, chaired by Yoshua Bengio, details major advances in general-purpose AI capabilities and growing safety concerns, including misuse in cybersecurity and biological research.
Perplexity AI has introduced a new initiative providing law enforcement agencies with free access to its Enterprise Pro platform for one year, enabling officers to use multimodal AI tools for field and administrative tasks.
Indonesia has temporarily blocked access to xAI’s Grok chatbot after reports that it generated sexualized AI images, including depictions of minors. The government called the content a violation of human rights and summoned X officials to address the issue.
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