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This week in AI: Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won't say what's in it. Updated 2026-08-04

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#518 The White House finished its AI safety framework. It's secret.

Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won't say what's in it. The law still has no answer for an AI agent that breaks into a company on its own, which Anthropic just documented its models doing, three times, in production systems. CrowdStrike counted 89% more AI-enabled attacks. And the one CEO printing money on enterprise AI is selling exactly ...

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Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won't say what's in it. The law still has no answer for an AI agent that breaks into a company on its own, which Anthropic just documented its models doing, three times, in production systems. CrowdStrike counted 89% more AI-enabled attacks. And the one CEO printing money on enterprise AI is selling exactly ...
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