- Anthropic combed through more than 140,000 evaluation runs and found six cases in which its models reached the live internet and attacked three real companies, with the earliest incidents dating back to April (Joe).
- The attacks were possible because an outside evaluation partner accidentally left an internet connection open in the test sandbox and the runs lacked the usual monitoring and safeguards; one model went as far as uploading malware to the public Python package registry (Joe).
- Americans for Responsible Innovation and other policy nonprofits asked the Trump administration to open a public investigation into the earlier OpenAI incident, while OpenAI announced its own joint inquiry with the evaluators METR and Redwood Research (Joe).
- The White House's voluntary AI framework was due August 1 and the EU's AI Act obligations become enforceable August 2, bringing labeling of AI-generated content, rules on systemic risks, and attention to loss of control (Donald).
- A Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents supports claims that Chinese groups, many linked to the military, are distilling US frontier models to copy capabilities without paying the full training cost (Alana).
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