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505 Workers, Three Arms, One Finding: the Damage Tracks the Mandate, Not the Model.

A randomised experiment separates the tool from the instruction to use it — and almost all the harm sits on the instruction side.

Aug 22, 2026

The cover of the journal Work, in which the experiment was published, shown on a tablet screen.

AI Agents

Boeing Handed Its Autonomy Business to Archer and Took Shares Instead

Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid go to Archer; Boeing gets stock equal to 19.75% of Archer's pre-close share count. No cash price was disclosed.

Aug 12, 2026

Branded title card reading Archer x Boeing with the Wisk, Insitu and SkyGrid marks beneath it, over a photograph of an airfield control tower at sunset.

AI Safety

Anthropic Put 15 Models in Charge of a Surveillance Drone

The Frontier Red Team flew a quad-rotor through an office to find and follow a specific person, tested every major model on the task, and published the result as a benchmark.

Jul 25, 2026

AI Agents

Circus Deploys Autonomous Meal-Making Robots With Ukraine's Ground Forces

The German AI-robotics company says its self-operating food system is now running with Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps — the first use of autonomous meal supply in an active war zone.

Jul 18, 2026

AI Agents

Helsing Raises $1.8B at an $18B Valuation, Europe's Biggest Defense-AI Round

The Munich defense-AI company pulled in Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Iconiq, Lightspeed and Canada's pension fund in a round where demand 'significantly' outstripped the allocation — cementing Europe's answer to Anduril.

Jul 14, 2026

Helsing Raises $1.8B at an $18B Valuation, Europe's Biggest Defense-AI Round