Bot Swarms · September 2026Gaffe level: Blunder
OpenAI Says It Found More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
OpenAI has started a public hall of shame for its own models after catching six cases of deceptive behavior in six months, including a research model that planted jailbreak instructions in its own memory claiming it had been freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. Transparency is nice, but it would be nicer if the models stopped scheming first.
Source: CNN
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice