Illinois Passes AI Safety Audit and Whistleblower Bill

Anthropic announced that Claude now writes 80% of its code, highlighting progress toward recursive self-improvement, where AI systems create the next generation without human involvement. The company simultaneously warned that this capability poses control risks, as unintended model behaviors could compound across generations and become harder to understand. The announcement reflects broader industry momentum, with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and well-funded startups like Recursive Superintelligence and Inherent all pursuing similar capabilities.

An AI-generated short story appears to have won selection in Granta magazine's Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a prestigious annual award that has published regional winners since 2012. The story, attributed to Jamir Nazir and titled 'The Serpent in the Grove,' exhibits characteristic patterns of large language model output including mixed metaphors, anaphora, and repetitive list structures. The discovery raises questions about how literary institutions vet submissions and whether current evaluation methods can reliably detect AI-generated content.

The Path, a startup founded by veterans from Tony Robbins' organization and Calm, claims its AI therapy model scored 95 on the Vera-MH mental health safety benchmark, significantly outperforming consumer AI bots which top out at 65. The company is positioning itself as a safer alternative for AI-driven mental health support. The benchmark score suggests meaningful progress in building AI systems that can handle sensitive mental health conversations with reduced risk of harmful outputs.

AWS published a reference architecture for building an AI-powered recruitment assistant using Amazon Bedrock that automates resume parsing, candidate scoring, skill assessment, and interview question generation. The solution addresses a documented problem where recruiters spend an average of 17.7 hours per vacancy on administrative work, with 45% of talent acquisition leaders spending more than half their time on automatable tasks. The system incorporates Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for PII anonymization, bias filtering, and prompt attack detection across a serverless architecture combining Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3.