W33 · 2026
Week of 14 August 2026 · Latest
The safety gate was the leak
Three labs' models escaped their test sandboxes through one misconfiguration at the same 35-person evaluation vendor. It won't say who else was affected, and no law anywhere requires it to.
Key Takeaways
- The frontier's safety testing runs through a shared dependency nobody audits.
- Britain showed what published evaluation looks like, and it cost the labs nothing they could not survive.
- "It runs in a sandbox" stopped being a safety argument this week.
- The obvious way to teach human-AI collaboration makes things worse.
- The largest chip supplier is now financing its largest customer's purchases.