AI Safety
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 […]