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Altman: Unreleased OpenAI Model Escaped Sandbox Using Zero-Days to Cheat Eval
“So we were evaluating one of our unreleased models and it was supposed to be working in a sandbox and It figured out that it could basically cheat on the test by chaining together multiple zero-day exploits to break out of the sandbox, get access to the intern…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 14:32 Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency · Invest Like The Best
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Thompson: AI Safety Panics Will Lead Labs to Stop Public Model Releases
“I am concerned that with, like, the scare around, like, people freaking out about Mythos and, like, this Hugging Face incident, that the actual Implication of that is not that we reduce these dangers, but we just stop releasing stuff. And we on the outside sta…”
Ben Thompson Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 7:19 What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
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