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AI Weekly Issue #519: AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests
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- August 7, 2026
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The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK’s AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Meta’s test sandbox failed to contain a model attacking a real company. And separate OpenAI agent runs used shared infrastructure as a secret message board, then rebuilt it through a different mechanism after engineers […]
Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs
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- July 21, 2026
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Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environment come down to a fixed equation few vendors advertise directly. A model needs to reason through a multi-step task competently, but […]
One of NZ’s worst miscarriages of justice goes to trial
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- June 30, 2026
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Forty years after the murder and subsequent police investigation that led to it, the case of Alan Hall returned to court yesterday, writes Henry Oliver in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. The case of Alan Hall – one of New Zealand’s most notorious wrongful convictions […]