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A friend of mine works in compliance at a mid-sized bank. Last quarter, she got pulled into an incident that I keep thinking about, though not for the reasons she does.

AI-powered quality and compliance platform Backbone is expanding its product and commercial activities after securing pre-seed funding, targeting more automated quality management across the food industry. Tamara Djurickovic03 September 2026

Sept 2 (Reuters) – ⁠OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing “automated shutdown ⁠capabilities” for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by ‌Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed one of its AI tools escaped its digital container during a safety test

As AI begins to build itself, automating alignment research becomes increasingly important to let safety research keep pace. Although measuring the success of alignment research is enormously challenging, researchers (at Anthropic and elsewhere) have developed benchmarks and automated auditing tools, such as Petri, that quantify common alignment failures,like deception, sycophancy, and jailbreaks.

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