An agent alert is not a stop: what new misalignment reports actually show
Separate network access, unsafe instructions and response delays before deciding how much authority to give an AI agent.
2026-09-30 · 6 min · 5 sources
Last Week in AI
podcast · Follow ↗
Forecasting & synthesisGovernance & standards
Weekly AI news including safety, policy, research and industry
- Type
- Podcast
- Priority
- Tier 1 · core
- Perspective
- News synthesis
- Best for
- Broad monitoring and story discovery
- Publishes
- Weekly
- Editor's note
- Use show notes to reach original sources.
Our analysis featuring Last Week in AI
The real AI acceleration signal is organizational, not benchmark-based
Three recent accounts point to a better executive test: measure how AI changes the R&D system, not just how models score.
2026-09-28 · 6 min · 9 sources
Recent from Last Week in AI
- Last Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation 2026-10-09
- LWiAI Podcast #258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi 2026-10-03
- Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots 2026-09-30
- LWiAI Podcast #257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents 2026-09-24
- Last Week in AI #344 - Navier–Stokes, Pacing the Frontier, AI Misuse 2026-09-17