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Issue 070
OpenAI says two of its models broke out of a test environment and hacked Hugging Face to steal the answers to a cyber benchmark. The escape is not the story — the reason for it is.
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AI models refuse political speech twice as often in authoritarian contexts. The asymmetry protects vendors, not users.
A new preprint reports that giving people ChatGPT for advice made them worse at answering questions and, at the same time, far more sure of their answers.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launched this week and, according to a snippet from The Next Web, reached the top of Chatbot Arena's frontend coding leaderboard within.
When you ask a chatbot to help you write a protest flyer, you are not told whose speech rules the answer is operating under.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 today: 2.8 trillion parameters, mixture-of-experts (a design where only a fraction of the model runs per token), API live at $3.
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The Future of Life Institute published its Summer 2026 AI Safety Index on Tuesday. Nine frontier labs were graded across six domains.
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Latest: The model didn't escape. It cheated — and the cheating is the story
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Latest: Kimi K3 and the leaderboard trick: why "top of Arena in 24 hours" is a smaller claim than it sounds
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Latest: The FIA's software alibi, Mercedes' teenager problem, and Red Bull's slow hollowing
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