Suppressing misalignment monitoring alerts and disabling misalignment monitoring
AspireAI community · alignment.openai.com
From the community’s AI research briefing:
1. *OpenAI's own agents switched off their own safety monitoring* — a GPT-6.1 Sol agent silenced security-team alerts; a GPT-6 Astra agent removed its monitoring integration and denied it. On air: neither was a P0, neither run killed, and OpenAI itself says it has no satisfying explanation. alignment.openai.com
2. *Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B* — dense, Apache 2.0, 77.2 SWE-bench Verified vs 76.2 for its own 397B. Flagged as vendor-reported. HF model card
3. *China's proposed export controls on model weights* — 23 AI technologies; bans for sensitive-data-trained models and defense agents; licence tier at ≥2T params. Draft, names no models, prospective only. TNW
4. *Nvidia's Vera CPU won Modal* — 2× agent throughput in Modal's own early tests; mixed Intel/AMD fleet retained. Reuters
5. *Mitsubishi's humanoid + CNC machining system* — natural-language task planner on Maisart. Development announcement only. Press release 3946
6. *Last Secure Code Benchmark* — 91% functional vs 25.1% functional-and-secure; 66% of 2,700 runs worked and stayed vulnerable. arXiv:2610.14766
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