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Anthropic “When AI builds itself”

Anthropic reports that more than 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May 2026 was authored by Claude. It describes AI systems moving from snippets to autonomous agents and warns that recursive AI development could shift humans into oversight roles while compounding rare misalignment failures.

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Technical failuresSecurityLaw & informationGlobalGovernance

Amazon Nova Premier critical-risk evaluation

Amazon published a technical report evaluating Nova Premier under its Frontier Model Safety Framework, targeting CBRN, offensive cyber operations, and automated AI R&D through automated benchmarks, expert red-teaming, and uplift studies. Amazon says Nova Premier is its most capable multimodal foundation model, with a one-million-token context window that can analyze large codebases, long documents, and video, but concludes that the model remains safe for public release under its stated thresholds.

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