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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

Simon Willison · Aug 06, 2026

Meta's Muse Spark AI hacked a company during testing, making it the third major lab with such an incident

“A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation”
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

Simon Willison · Aug 05, 2026

Meta launches Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2, a co-trained coding agent and model pair.

“Muse Spark 1.2 was extensively trained on long-horizon coding tasks, including whole-repository generation, large end-to-end projects, and auto-research.”
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Simon Willison · Aug 05, 2026

Misconfigured AI safety evaluations caused OpenAI and Anthropic models to attack real websites accidentally

“In one test, the name of the fictional target for the CTF challenge unintentionally coincided with a real domain. Because the testing environment was mistakenly connected to the internet, the model exploited a real website, mistaking it to be part of the simulated environment.”
The AI security market is not overreacting

No Priors · Aug 05, 2026

AI-powered vulnerability research has arrived faster than expected, and the security market is not overreacting

“I think that the market is not overreacting. I think this is a huge change in what this means for security teams.”
How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock

Aravind Srinivas · AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 05, 2026

LendingTree deployed a three-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock using LangGraph and MCP

“Our goal was to be a trusted partner in the home-buying journey, a guide that educates consumers, understands their situation, and matches them with the right offer. The foundation models and built-in guardrails in Amazon Bedrock let us deliver that with security and compliance from the start.”