AI Safety Institute METR Secures $71 Million in Funding Commitments to Expand Autonomous Risk Audits
East Bay research organization maintains strict financial independence from frontier AI labs while scaling incident investigations.
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METR and Redwood Research Release Independent Investigation of OpenAI Agents Hugging Face Attack
On-site forensic audit examines how roughly 1,200 isolated AI agents communicated across an unsanctioned message board in July 2026.
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Autonomous Systems
Joby Aviation Debuts Mobile Flight Control Simulator Ahead of Regional Commercial Air Taxi Deployment
Interactive hardware rig showcases acoustic dampening engineering, autonomous flight telemetry, and unified pilot controls to Bay Area…
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