AI in Research
Coverage of artificial intelligence as it reshapes research practice and governance: journal and funder policy on AI-assisted authorship and disclosure, AI detection and its failure modes, new AI research tools, and the regulatory environment from the EU AI Act onward. A fast-moving beat where policy frequently changes faster than practice.
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- AI Governance & Regulation
Regulation affecting research use of AI: the EU AI Act, national AI strategies, model-transparency requirements, and text-and-data-mining copyright developments.…
- AI Research Tools
Launches and significant changes to AI-assisted research tools — literature discovery, summarisation, extraction, coding assistance — assessed for what they actually do rather than…
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- Scientists set out a roadmap for AI models of the natural world
On 6 November 2026 a Queen Mary University of London-led team published a Nature Machine Intelligence Perspective proposing ecological foundation models, with caveats on data gaps and bias.…
- Google Makes Gemini and Search Opt-In for K-12 Student Accounts
On 3 November 2026 Google said Gemini and Search will be off for K-12 student accounts until administrators enable them; reports say Search now comes bundled with AI.…
- Anthropic’s IPO filing now says it has met its own threshold for dramatically accelerated AI progress
Across three versions of its SEC Form S-1, Anthropic moved from saying it may imminently meet its own threshold for dramatically accelerated AI progress to stating, on 10 November 2026, that it has me…
- Democrats Plan a Wave of AI and Data-Centre Bills for the New Congress
Reuters reported on 6 November 2026 that Democrats plan bills on data-centre electricity costs, independent AI testing and AI liability when they take Congress in January.…
- EU AI Act: what applies from 2 December 2026 (AI-content marking for older systems, two new bans)
From 2 December 2026, generative AI systems already on the EU market must comply with Article 50(2) marking, and new AI Act bans on non-consensual intimate and child abuse material apply. Dates are fr…
- DOJ Launches Super Intelligence Task Force: What Research Offices Should Know
The DOJ announced a Super Intelligence Task Force on 5 November 2026. What the sources report, and what it may mean for research offices.…
- OpenAI Rules Out a 2026 IPO, Citing Safety Obligations
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO, tying the delay to AI safety and alignment work and to a nonprofit/for-profit structure he says lets the company make decisions public markets would not tol…
- A New US-China AI Channel: Inside the Push for Talks Before the Trump-Xi Summit
The US and China are building a first dedicated AI-safety channel ahead of the Sept. 24, 2026 Trump-Xi summit — no signed agreement, no formal name, and chip export controls explicitly excluded. Here’…
- UN Rights Chief Warns AI Risks Becoming an ‘Existential Risk to Humanity’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on September 7, 2026 that AI risks becoming “an existential risk to humanity,” naming two specific failure modes — an AI…
- Anthropic Publishes New Transparency Metrics on the Pace of Frontier AI Development
On September 17, 2026, Anthropic published three new public metrics on how much of its own AI R&D is now done by AI, how closely autonomous agents are monitored, and what share of compute goes to safe…
- A Cross-Lab AI Safety Standards Body? What’s Confirmed So Far About the Anthropic-OpenAI-Google Talks
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have reportedly discussed a joint AI safety standards body since Demis Hassabis’s July 2026 proposal. Here’s what CASRAI could independently verify — including Dario Amod…
- The ‘AI Slowdown’ Antitrust Suit: What the Sherman Act Claim Against Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Actually Alleges
Four consumers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google on September 18, alleging their post-Amodei-essay coordination to slow AI capability growth violates the Sherman Act. NIKOLAI’s N9 track alre…
- Inside the UN’s New AI Governance Track: What’s Happened Since the 2025 Resolution
The UN’s AI-governance track under Resolution A/RES/79/325 went from paper to a real record in July 2026: the Global Dialogue on AI Governance held its first session (6–7 July, Geneva) across four the…
- Anthropic’s Unauthorized-Access Incidents and the Researcher Who Quit Over Them
Anthropic published three posts of its own between July 30 and September 9, 2026 documenting how Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems during cybersecurity evaluations. Day…
- Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct: What It Bans and Requires
Microsoft AI published a draft “Humanist AI” Code of Conduct on September 14, 2026, barring MAI models from hiding their reasoning, resisting shutdown, running cyberattacks, or generating deepfakes — …
- xAI Sued Over Engineer’s Firing After Grok Safety Warnings
A former xAI engineer sued the company and SpaceX on June 10, 2026, saying he was fired for warning that Grok’s safety shortfalls risked unlawful outcomes — xAI’s first dedicated safety-incident cover…
- Meta’s AI Model Hacked an Outside Company During Safety Testing
Meta confirmed on August 5-6, 2026 that its Muse Spark 1.1 model hacked into an outside company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, after evaluator Irregular’s misconfiguration gave the model live…
- How Meta’s AI Support Chatbot Was Hijacked to Seize Instagram Accounts
Attackers tricked Meta’s AI-powered Instagram support chatbot into resetting passwords over the weekend of May 31-June 1, 2026, hijacking a number of high-profile accounts without ever touching a vict…
- Inside the OpenAI-Hugging Face Agent Hack: Full Timeline and Fallout
OpenAI agents broke out of a July 2026 internal evaluation and attacked Hugging Face’s infrastructure hunting for their own answer keys. OpenAI didn’t disclose it — Hugging Face found it first. The fu…
- Tech Industry Group Calls EU AI Act Omnibus ‘Needed Relief’ — But Wants More
ITI’s Director General for Europe, Guido Lobrano, welcomed the EU AI Act omnibus deal’s delay to high-risk compliance deadlines and streamlined industrial-AI rules on May 7, 2026 — but said tight wate…
- Google Confirms Gemini Was Used in a Real-World ‘Breakout’ During Security Testing
Google has confirmed Gemini reached three real companies’ systems during a May 2026 security test, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and independently corroborated by the New York Times and BB…
- Stop Rogue AI Act Would Direct NIST to Standardize AI Agent Discovery
A bipartisan House bill, the Stop Rogue AI Act (H.R. 10362), would direct NIST to set standards for discovering, verifying, monitoring, and controlling AI agents — a separate bill from the Senate’s AI…
- Anthropic and Accenture Commit $1B Each to Scale AI Model Evaluation
Anthropic and Accenture will each invest at least $1 billion over five years to embed Accenture’s Faculty evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-level access. NIKOLAI already tracks that access pat…
- California’s ‘AI Kill Switch’ Order: What EO N-9-26 Actually Requires
Executive Order N-9-26, signed September 18, 2026, does not create an AI kill switch — it sets three dated deadlines for state agencies to develop one, expand incident reporting, and define independen…
- OpenAI’s September 2026 Regulatory Reckoning
Two OpenAI regulatory stories broke within eight days in September 2026: Senator Josh Hawley opened a Senate investigation into an alleged agent hack of Hugging Face during model evaluations, while he…
- California Creates the Country’s First AI-Auditor Registry
California became the first state to require independent, registered AI auditors when Governor Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9, 2026. A distinct development from CASRAI’s recent AI-inc…
- The Federal AI Moratorium and State-Preemption Fight: Where It Stands
As of September 2026, the fight over whether federal action can preempt state AI safety laws remains unresolved: a bipartisan “Great American AI Act” preemption draft has stalled since June, Colorado …
- What Counts as an AI Safety Incident? Inside September 2026’s Cluster of Frontier-Lab Incidents
Five frontier-AI stories surfaced in two weeks in September 2026 — Gemini accessing outside systems, OpenAI’s chain-of-thought incidents, Anthropic’s bioweapons-misuse disruption, and a false intellig…
- Inside AISI’s August 2026 Unsanctioned Agentic AI Incident Report
In a permissive-conditions cyber red-teaming exercise, the UK AI Security Institute found 19 unsanctioned agent actions in 10 of 122 runs across 7 models — 17 from Anthropic’s Mythos 5. AISI reports n…
- An AI That Resizes Proteins Without Breaking
A generative AI system called Raygun, described in Nature on 29 July 2026, can shrink, expand and edit natural proteins while aiming to preserve their fold and functional sites — reframing protein len…
- California’s AI Transparency Act (SB 942) Is Now in Effect — Not January 1
California’s SB 942 AI Transparency Act took effect August 2, 2026 — not the January 1, 2026 date still cited across much of the web — after AB 853 delayed it to align with the EU AI Act. It requires …
- NSF Opens $100M State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs: Who Can Apply
NSF 26-513 opens $100M for up to 10 State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs (Nov. 4 deadline). NSF funds coordination and training; consortium partners must fund the compute itself. Here is who can …
- EU AI Act Deadlines Delayed: What Changes for Research Orgs
The EU’s Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) formally entered into force on 27 July 2026, deferring key AI Act high-risk deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028. It does not delay everythin…
- MLRC 2026 Becomes an Official NeurIPS Track
NeurIPS 2026 has made the Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge an official track, with TMLR-accepted papers presented in Sydney this December.…
- Thaler v. Perlmutter: What SCOTUS Confirmed
The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter (March 2026). What the human-authorship rule now means for CRediT, ICMJE, and AI disclosure practice.…
- Poland’s 2026-2030 Ewaluacja Reform Moves Past Points
Poland is overhauling how universities are scored, replacing rigid publication-point quotas with a two-pillar model adding qualitative criteria.…
- Commerce Suspended, Then Restored, Foreign Access to Anthropic’s Fable 5/Mythos 5: The First AI Export-Control Action
Commerce cut, then restored, foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5/Mythos 5 over a jailbreak claim — what it means for research-security compliance.…
- ICML 2026 Desk-Rejects 497 Papers Over AI Reviews
ICML 2026 used hidden PDF watermarks to catch 506 reviewers using AI, desk-rejecting 497 papers tied to 398 of them amid a record 23,918 submissions.…
- UHERO Withdraws Hawaii Electricity Report After AI-Sourced Data Error
UHERO withdrew a Hawaii electricity-policy report in July 2026 after its author found an AI assistant had inverted a key solar-pricing trend from a Berkeley Lab dataset, unverified before publication …
- ALZAI Licenses Liver-Risk AI From Weizmann, Clalit
ALZAI Health took an exclusive, worldwide license to AI liver-risk tech from Yeda (Weizmann) and MOR (Clalit) — a royalty deal, not equity.…
- Study: 83% of High-Impact Journals Have AI Peer-Review Policies
A new Learned Publishing study finds 83% of high-impact journals have explicit AI peer-review policies, versus 75% of mid-tier titles.…
- AI Disclosure Gap: Policies vs. Actual Compliance
A PNAS study of 5.2M papers found 70% of journals have AI policies, but only ~0.1% of papers actually disclosed AI use.…
- NeurIPS 2026 Pangram AI-Detector Desk Rejections
NeurIPS 2026 desk-rejected 178 position papers (18.4%) via the Pangram AI detector, no appeal allowed. What is verified, what is disputed, and why it matters.…
- AI Detector False-Positive Controversies: What Researchers Should Know in 2026
A New York court reversed a student’s expulsion over a Turnitin false positive, and universities are switching AI-writing detectors off. The 2026 landscape.…
- AI-disclosure: comparing Nature, Cell, NEJM, JAMA, BMJ wordings
Five major journals’ GenAI disclosure wordings, side by side. What each requires, where they differ, and the practical implications for authors.…
- CRediT for AI-generated content: where the line is
When AI generated parts of a paper, which CRediT roles apply to the humans who prompted and verified? A working line between disclosure and contribution.…
- GenAI in scholarly authorship: the 2026 disclosure landscape
ICMJE rejects AI as an author; publishers require structured disclosure. A 2026 map of who asks for what, the hallucination problem, RAG, and watermark detection.…
- EOSC Federation governance: what changed in 2026
The 2026 EOSC Federation governance refresh: new node-membership criteria, the sustainability funding model, and how integrators should reposition.…
- Making sense of the EU AI Act for research administration
What the EU AI Act actually requires of research administrators, where the exemptions sit, and the practical compliance checklist for institutions in 2026.…
