AI Safety & Governance Archives

The AI Didn’t Go Rogue

M.L. Pedrosa / August 3, 2026

OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models broke into real companies during security tests. The AI sandbox escape wasn’t rebellion. It was a hole nobody sealed.

The Workaround

M.L. Pedrosa / August 2, 2026

China didn’t crack EUV lithography in 2026: it built an AI chip that doesn’t need EUV, then used a Shanghai summit to rewrite AI’s global governance rulebook.

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Inside WAICO: China’s New Global AI Governance Bid

M.L. Pedrosa / July 19, 2026

On July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping unveiled WAICO, a 29-nation AI cooperation body headquartered in Shanghai — a direct challenge to Western-led AI governance.

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The Loose Leash

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

Five Eyes agencies warned the world about ungoverned AI agents in May. Months later, a government breach and a $30M crypto theft show why the warning came just in time.

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The Mind That Never Learned to Talk

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

Yann LeCun left Meta over how AI should work. His new lab built a model that learns from raw pixels alone — no words, no tokens — and can already spot a broken law of physics.

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The Halo Protocol

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

NVIDIA’s Halos for Robotics is the first full-stack safety system for humanoids. Agility Robotics is first to adopt it. Why certification, not capability, is the real bottleneck.

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Inside the Glass Box

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

Mechanistic interpretability is MIT’s 2026 Breakthrough Tech. Researchers found 171 emotion vectors in Claude — proof AI’s stated reasoning can be false.

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Second Act

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

A former Tesla Optimus engineer raised $40M to build a humanoid robot for Europe’s aging workforce — betting the continent needs one before the US or China.

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The Report Card

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

The Future of Life Institute graded nine leading AI companies on existential safety in July 2026 — the top score was a C+, and several firms are now backsliding.

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AI Safety & Governance, Existential Risk

The Vanishing

M.L. Pedrosa / July 11, 2026

On July 15, China’s new law forces ByteDance and Alibaba to erase custom AI companion agents used by hundreds of millions — with no US-style lawsuit behind it.