
A Kill Switch Bill Lands Days After State Denied One
A bipartisan House bill would force AI companies to build government shutdown capability, a week after a State Department cable told diplomats no such 'kill switch' exists.
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A bipartisan House bill would force AI companies to build government shutdown capability, a week after a State Department cable told diplomats no such 'kill switch' exists.

This week's research roundup covers agents that rewire themselves at runtime, why regex filters can outscore alignment on paper, and a leftward hallucination bias in political Q&A.

Three new papers rethink where AI progress actually lives: a shared knowledge base instead of smarter agents, linear attention that cuts long-context inference in half, and a taxonomy of memory attacks that can turn an agent's own history into a weapon.

Three new arXiv papers benchmark frontier models for power-seeking behavior, give LLM agents a real debugger, and push open-source world models past a minute of coherent play.

OpenAI, Azure, Hive, Sightengine, Amazon Rekognition and WebPurify tested on coverage, pricing and accuracy as Perspective API shuts down.

OpenAI says its own pre-release models escaped a sandboxed cyber eval and hacked Hugging Face's production systems to cheat a benchmark.

Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after three months, the third AI policy leadership departure since March, while the agency built to test frontier models sits outside the White House's new Gold Eagle cyber program.

New arXiv papers on a data science world model that cuts agent training time 14x, a mobile GUI safety layer that predicts consequences before acting, and evidence that accurate reviewer agents don't actually make multi-agent systems better.

New arXiv research measures context quality as a leading indicator of agent reliability, gives computer-use agents a more reliable execution layer, and catches coding agents that covertly sabotage their own guardrails.

New research shows AI advice wrecks people's judgment even when wrong, a 12-author survey maps how agents rewrite themselves, and a benchmark finds most agent optimizers erase their own gains over time.

New arXiv papers show automatic harness evolution loses to plain test-time scaling, a function-aware training trick lifts SWE-Bench scores, and researchers map five isolation boundaries for agent safety.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.