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What to Do When AI Builds Its Own Successor
What I learned interviewing 25 AI researchers about recursive self-improvement.
Aug 11 • Severin Field

July 2026

The OpenAI/Hugging Face Incident: Lessons from a Quintessential Warning Shot
What frontier AI companies hold internally is more capable than what the public can use—and less governed.
Jul 29 • Theo Bearman

June 2026

How Durable is Our Visibility into AI Cyberattacks?
As AI gets better at hacking, sources of threat intelligence on its capabilities and use may deteriorate
Jun 29 • Jan Wehner

May 2026

Cyber Superstorms
How Powerful AI Vulnerability Discovery Capabilities Could Make Cyber Crises Routine
May 28 • Jam Kraprayoon and Christopher
Closing the AI Security Gap—Starting with Internal Models: Part I
After the ‘Mythos moment’, why the time to act is now and what frontier AI companies should be doing.
May 21 • Theo Bearman
Introducing The Attack Surface
A newsletter from the Frontier Security team at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)
May 21 • Theo Bearman, Matthew Mittelsteadt, and Jam Kraprayoon
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