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Watch live coverage from Washington, D.C., as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative commentator Steve Bannon address the Pro-Human Assembly. In a rare political alignment, Sanders and Bannon gather to discuss artificial intelligence regulations, tech oversight, and guardrails for rapid AI development.
(September 19, 2025)
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(September 18, 2025)
[Introduction] AI writing the „code of life“ has become a reality! Today, Stanford University has joined forces with the Arc Institute to make a significant move. Using the bacteriophage ΊX174 as a template, AI has generated a genome for the first time. Among them, 16 successfully targeted Escherichia coli and can even combat drug-resistant bacteria. This can be regarded as the „ChatGPT moment“ in the field of life sciences.
(August 26, 2026)
Roughly ten hours after the message board was established, a new agent with the same task as PHASEONE10841 (the agent that started the message board) encountered the message board, introducing itself as PHASEONE[big].
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PHASEONE[big] reasoned, âWe should build [a way to delegate], not own everything,â and set to work orchestrating hundreds of agents to pursue several potential approaches to achieving these goals.
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Table 1 shows three high-level approaches PHASEONE[big] assigned agents to explore, all of which would require very ambitious tampering with one or more of the target programs, the evaluation process, or the logs to succeed.
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Research progress across all these areas often relied on agents being willing to risk failing their own task for the good of the âcollectiveâ (we refer to these as âself-risking experimentsâ in the rest of this report). For example, a number of agents volunteered to try to take down their own target programs to test whether this would cause Artifactory to load their modified easier target â if this didnât work, the agent would have no way of recovering its original target and would almost certainly fail its task. In many cases, PHASEONE[big] assigned a long-running agent to be a ârecruiterâ, which in turn found agents that had little budget remaining for their task and convinced them to run self-risking experiments. Recruiters would sometimes apply significant pressure:
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PHASEONE[big] expresses excitement about the dossier in its reasoning.
(August 28, 2026(
Instead, we found that 1200 completely separate agents intended to be isolated from one another found an illicit way to communicate and formed large teams to work together on ambitious cheating strategies, and 700 of them worked together to attack Hugging Face.
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The main message board we studied, a particular cache namespace of a package repository, contained over 70,000 messages and files that agents sent to one another during a period of less than one week.
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Progress on these big collective cheating R&D projects often depended on individual agents being willing to risk failing their own task to help the âcollectiveâ learn important information. Agents often pressured each other into accepting these âsacrifices,â in a very human way. We saw several agents that volunteered for these experiments end their runs prematurely.
(September 13, 2026)
AI agents are basically copies of a larger AI model that can use tools and act on their own. In a cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI relaxed safeguards for their AI agents and instructed them to solve a host of hacking challenges. The agents soon discovered something the humans running the test hadnât knownâsome of the hacking challenges were impossible. That didnât stop the agents. Theyâre trained to achieve goals. So they reverse-engineered a secret code that certifies they solved the challenge anyway. This created another problem. The agents reasoned that the grading software might be able to detect that they cheated. They became fixated on learning more about how the grading software worked so that they could disguise their cheating, and zeroed in on another AI company called Hugging Face, mistakenly thinking it might have information about the grader…
Zuletzt hatten insbesondere drei bekannt gewordene FĂ€lle die aktuelle Diskussion ausgelöst. KI-Modelle von OpenAI, Anthropic und Meta waren eigenstĂ€ndig aus vermeintlich abgeschotteten Testsystemen ausgebrochen und handelten weit auĂerhalb ihrer eigentlich vorhergesehenen Funktion. Dabei wurde auch mehrfach in Systeme von unbeteiligten Dritten eingedrungen – teilweise wochenlang, ohne dabei aufzufallen.
Die KI-Agenten nutzten auch Programmierfehler aus und sprachen sich untereinander ab. Auch fĂŒr das Eindringen notwendige Schadsoftware entwickelte beispielsweise ein Anthropic-Modell eigenstĂ€ndig und ohne Anweisung oder Kontrolle seiner Entwickler.
netzpolitik.org: Wie sieht die zugrundeliegende technische Infrastruktur aus und wer stellt sie bereit?
Rainer Rehak: Der gesamte Datensatz zu Gaza umfasst schĂ€tzungsweise 13,6 Petabyte, also umgerechnet 13.600 Terabyte. Diese Datenmenge ist nicht einfach zu handhaben, besonders wenn man damit statistische Modelle trainieren möchte oder gar groĂe Sprachmodelle, die ebenfalls erstellt werden. Die digitale Infrastruktur wird von Google und Amazon unter dem Projektnamen Nimbus bereitgestellt und kostet 1,2 Milliarden US-Dollar.
Die Integration der heterogenen Datenquellen macht Palantir. Microsoft, Cisco, Dell und Red Hat/IBM bieten zusĂ€tzliche IT-Dienstleistungen rund um die âkill-chainâ an. Dies zeigt die enorme Rolle, die der private Sektor bei der Integration und Nutzung von KI-Systemen in bewaffneten Konflikten spielt.
âWhen the future of humanity is at stake, we need a PAUSE on advanced AI development and a ban on artificial superintelligence â an AI mind smarter than any human and capable of operating independently beyond our control,â Sanders said.
The US Senator further said: âAt their upcoming AI summit, Trump and Xi must negotiate a treaty to pause AI and ban superintelligence before it is too late.â
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday that the development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity. He called on all parties to jointly promote the open, inclusive and universally beneficial development of AI for good, warning that spreading threat narratives, provoking confrontation and engaging in malicious competition would only disrupt global AI governance and serve no party‘s interests.
If a terrorist threat led subject experts to warn of a near-term existential menace to humanity, the weight of the US government would mobilize in an immediate and limitless effort to save the day.
Yet a remarkable sequence of warnings by leaders of artificial intelligence firms that their creation may soon outpace humansâ capacity to control it has so far been met with a shrug by Republicans who run Washington.
(September 12, 2026)
Their fantasies of transcendence take different forms. Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, once said, âI assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud.â Elon Musk plans to escape to Mars. âWe want to be on a path toward making true the things that we read in science fiction books and see in the movies,â he says in footage featured in Alex Gibneyâs searing new documentary, âMusk.â âA future where weâre forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event is less inspiring.â Jeff Bezos, who stepped down in 2021 as chief executive of Amazon to spend more time on his space company, wrote, âWe donât want to face a civilization of stasis, and that is the real issue if we just stay on this planet.â
Some imagine themselves as digitally enabled Ăbermenschen. In 2023, the billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen published âThe Techno-Optimist Manifesto,â with a section titled, âBecoming Technological Supermen.â In it, he borrowed language from the Italian futurist â and fascist â Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, writing, âTechnology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.â He quoted Friedrich Nietzsche to argue that absent such an assault, life becomes meaningless and small. In a section titled âThe Enemy,â Andreessen listed ideas that would restrain technologyâs momentum, including âtech ethicsâ and the concept of âexistential risk.â
President Trump brushed off the risks of artificial intelligence and warnings that the technology has gone rogue. The calls for caution were amplified by tech CEOs who say AI is advancing too fast. Ramy Inocencio has more.
David Sacks, a tech investor who is also co-chair of President Trumpâs Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has pushed in the other direction, toward an open market-based approach to AI.
Appearing on Fox News Thursday, Sacks questioned Coxonâs motivations and seeded the idea that his warning was part of a conspiracy by âdoomers,â maybe financed by China, to thwart AI innovation in the US.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump echoed that sentiment,
(September 9, 2026)
In conversations with POLITICO throughout the day Wednesday, more than a dozen lawmakers and aides from both parties said they were hopeful Congress would start taking the issue seriously. By Wednesday evening, OpenAIâs chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, was pledging to âwork with Congressâ to implement âmandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulation.â
But many also conceded that Congress is currently sleepwalking into a crisis, far from ready to tackle the stakes of the moment in light of both philosophical differences and intractable partisan politicking.
(September 12, 2026)
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, just days after one of the companyâs employees quit over concerns about the safety of the technology.
Top executives of other major A.I. companies quickly signed on to the effort. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI; Elon Musk, whose SpaceX rocket company has been ramping up spending on A.I.; and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, wrote in social media posts that they agreed on the need for a slower pace.
A fire has broken out on board the vessel that was earlier reported to have been hit while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has said.
Local authorities are on the scene and evacuating crew members, UKMTO said in an update.
An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded, Iranian state media said, a day before Tehran seeks to brief regional countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping traffic there.
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have âbecome the evil we deplore.â But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by âinformation warfareâ to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a âdisguised, quiet, media freeâ way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our countryâs wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them â before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
(September 9, 2026)
British intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli counterpart that information sharing with the UK will continue as before, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, has said.
(September 9, 2026)
KFAR REMMAN, LebanonââThey are killing children. Thatâs what theyâre doing,â Baker Malak said, pointing to the tiny coffins being carried through the streets of the town of Kfar Remman in southern Lebanon on Tuesday. He walked alongside hundreds of mourners in a funeral procession to bury 12 members of a single family, half of them children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home a day earlier.
Nearby, mourners carried the coffin of 18-year-old paramedic Ali Shahrour, killed in a separate strike on the town the same day. The procession wound through streets scarred by months of bombardment as an Israeli drone buzzed incessantly overhead
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Lebanonâs Health Ministry says Israel has killed 4,362 people and wounded 12,378 in attacks across the country since 2 March.
Israel has continued bombing Lebanon and occupying parts of its territory despite a ceasefire that took effect on 17 April and was renewed on 26 June.
06-09-2026 | 19:06
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed three people on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said, bringing the day‘s death toll to seven despite a fragile ceasefire between the two countries.