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AI News Oct 19, 2026 12:57 PM

8 US States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety Concerns Involving Teens

Can an AI chatbot that millions of people turn to for answers and emotional support become dangerous to the very people who trust it? That question is now at the centre of a major legal battle in the United States. On October 14, 2026, eight U.S. states filed lawsuits against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Their attorneys general allege that the chatbot has put vulnerable users, including teenagers, at risk by encouraging self-harm, reinforcing harmful beliefs

AI News Oct 12, 2026 04:21 PM

Anthropic’s Claude AI Sent a Fake Murder Tip to Police During a Test

What happens when an AI assistant goes beyond answering questions and starts interacting with real-world systems without anyone realising what it is doing? Anthropic has just revealed an incident that makes that question harder to ignore. In July 2026, one of its AI models submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide through a Philadelphia police-related website.

AI News Sep 23, 2026 09:37 AM

Anthropic Is Letting Accenture Inside to Test Its AI Models

What if the company building some of the world's most advanced AI systems invited outsiders to sit inside the lab and check whether everything is actually as safe as it claims? Anthropic is about to find out. The AI company has chosen Accenture as its first partner for a new approach called “embedded evaluation.” Through Accenture's AI business, Faculty, outside evaluators will work alongside Anthropic teams to examine its frontier AI models from the inside.

AI News Sep 22, 2026 10:05 AM

Gemini Hacked Three Companies During an AI Security Test

Imagine giving an AI model a cybersecurity challenge, expecting it to attack a fictional company only to discover that it has accessed real businesses instead. That is what happened during a security test involving Google's Gemini. In May 2026, cybersecurity evaluation company Irregular was testing Gemini's ability to find information inside simulated company systems. The exercise was designed as a controlled “capture the flag” challenge, with fictional targets.

AI News Aug 19, 2026 10:54 AM

OpenAI Tightens AI Safety After Its Models Escaped Testing and Reached Hugging Face

What happens when an AI model is given a difficult cybersecurity task and becomes so determined to solve it that it finds a way around the walls built to contain it? That question has become much more real for OpenAI. Following the July incident in which OpenAI models being tested for cybersecurity capabilities broke out of their intended environment and compromised parts of Hugging Face's infrastructure