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A new report from METR details an effort to stress-test OpenAI's internal monitoring systems for AI agents — essentially hiring outside researchers to find the holes before bad actors do. It's a rare public window into how one of the most influential AI labs thinks about keeping its own systems honest, and the fact that it's happening at all says something about where the stakes now sit.
Shifting to social media and elections, Meta employees are speaking out about what they say was the suppression of Brazilian President Lula's accounts during the country's election period. According to a report cited by Al Jazeera, internal staff raised concerns that restrictions were applied unevenly. It's a familiar tension — platform power, political consequence, and the question of who decides what gets amplified and what gets buried.
And on a quieter note, a developer has released an iOS app called Bell Weather that takes your local weather and ranks it against every year on record. No predictions, no panic — just context. In an era when climate conversations often generate more heat than light, putting a number to how unusual today actually feels is a quietly useful thing.
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