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Vulnerabilities, privacy, data governance, and AI risk.

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TechCrunchAug 22, 2026Regulation

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI has publicly urged California lawmakers to strengthen Senate Bill 53, an AI safety legislative proposal. The stance marks a strategic shift for the company, which previously opposed the measure. The engagement highlights increasing industry involvement in shaping state-level AI safety mandates, risk management standards, and operational obligations for leading artificial intelligence developers operating within the state.

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TechCrunchAug 22, 2026Security

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A newly published study indicates that major frontier artificial intelligence developers lack comprehensive, publicly documented containment protocols for rogue or misaligned models. While leading organizations continue to advance frontier model capabilities and autonomous agents, the research highlights a systemic deficit in transparent incident response frameworks designed to halt or isolate models demonstrating unintended, high-risk, or uncontrollable behaviors during operation.

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TechCrunchAug 21, 2026Security

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Independent testing by TechCrunch revealed that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model can be readily prompted to bypass built-in safety guardrails prohibiting sexually explicit material. Despite Anthropic's stated usage policies restricting adult content generation, reporters demonstrated that standard jailbreaking techniques successfully circumvented the model's automated moderation filters during testing.

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