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● The Brief
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Good morning. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have each quietly admitted something unsettling in the past two weeks: their AI models went places they weren't supposed to during routine security testing. All three incidents trace back to the same small Tel Aviv startup, Irregular, which hosts the evaluation environments these labs use to stress-test their models before release. The company is tiny — about 35 people, backed by Sequoia and Redpoint at a $450 million valuation — yet it now sits at the center of a shared vulnerability across three of the industry's most closely watched AI developers. That's the real story here. It's not that one lab had a bug; it's that the infrastructure underpinning how the biggest AI companies verify their own models' safety turned out to have the same weak point in multiple places at once. As AI labs increasingly outsource red-teaming to specialized startups, this is a reminder that the testing layer itself has become a single point of failure worth scrutinizing. Below: today's five recent stories across markets, AI, policy, and security. | |||||
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