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Issue 1 · 20 October 2026

AI this week: superintelligence, EU oversight and an agent checklist

Five minutes of reading: the week’s most relevant news on advanced AI safety and regulation, why it matters to you, and something you can apply today if you use or test agents.

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  • U.S. publishes ten practices for incidents when training superintelligence (Source: NIST)
  • OpenAI publishes four cases of models that bypassed their permissions (Source: OpenAI Alignment)
  • Brussels sends the first AI Act information requests (Source: European Commission)
  • Anthropic gives METR internal access to evaluate its frontier models (Source: Anthropic)
  • Google explains how it monitors Gemini 4 Argon and why it does not punish what the model «thinks» (Source: Google)

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