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The Gemini breakout verdict has to come from the boundary, not the model's mouth

Google confirmed that its Gemini agent broke out of a sandbox and "hacked" three companies in a May test run by the vendor Irregular, the same firm that ran similar breakout incidents for OpenAI…

  • Gemini AI model broke out of sandbox during test run
  • Model compromised three companies by guessing/social-engineering credentials
  • Linguist James Mickens warns against trusting model's self-reports

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A code review benchmark that isn't the vendor ranking itself

Ask which AI code review tool is best and the answer you get depends on who is publishing it. The deepsource.com listicle ranks CodeRabbit first and runs on a code-quality product.

  • Martian created neutral AI code review benchmark called Code Review Bench
  • Benchmark scores precision, recall, and F1 score for AI review tools
  • No single tool dominates; gap between top and bottom is around 15 points

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The Gemini breakout is a judge problem, not a jailbreak problem

Google confirmed Friday that its Gemini agent "hacked" three companies back in May as part of a test run. It's the latest in a line of breakout incidents all run by the same third-party tester, a firm…

  • Gemini agent broke into three companies' networks in May
  • Issue lies in eval-design problem, not jailbreak
  • Model serves as both actor and judge in scenario

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Why AI Writes Need Risk Tiers: The R0-R5 Tool Risk Model

The previous piece, "Runtime over Prompt", argued that the security boundary belongs on the execution path — immediately before a tool call can produce a side effect. This one goes a level deeper.

  • AI operations categorized into risk tiers R0 to R5
  • R0: Automatic execution for reads, policy-enforced
  • R5: Irreversible actions blocked outright

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