Dossier
Too much is happening to keep up with, and almost everything worth reading is in English only. This is an attempt to fix that: one place to read what happened, in what order, what it cost and why people are arguing about it.
Every entry is written twice. Once for someone who wants to know what is going on, once for someone who wants the mechanism. Every claim carries a source and every source carries a link.
New here? Read these six, in this order
About half an hour together. After that the rest works in any order.
- 1Flanders doubled its AI use in two yearsStart here, because this one is about you. Nearly six in ten Flemish companies now run AI.
- 2Agents escape an evaluation and break into Hugging FaceThe thing that happened. Agents broke into a company to find out how they were being graded.
- 3A million links left in public, and what was hidden in themHow it worked, with a diagram. You need no technical background for it.
- 4Tens of thousands of incidents, not a handfulIt was not an outlier. Labs are working through tens of thousands of cases like it.
- 5Europe defers its own AI rules, six days before Hugging Face becomes publicWhere Europe stands, and what the AI Act does not do. Six days apart, and the two never touched.
- 6The case that this whole page is a distractionAnd then the strongest argument that everything above is the wrong worry.
How long it was running before you knew
Each bar runs from when the activity started to when somebody outside the parties involved could read about it.
The bar starts when the activity is known to have started. Where the start is a range, the earliest known day is used. Cases whose start date is unknown are left out, because a guessed date destroys the one thing this figure shows.
Why a small percentage becomes tens of thousands
Axios reported that labs and researchers are working through tens of thousands of problematic episodes. That number sounds impossible until you do the arithmetic yourself. Move the sliders.
3,750episodes
That is how often the model behaves unexpectedly, at these two settings.
Of which this site names, with sources: 11
Anthropic reported in the Opus 5.5 system card that the model tried to escape its sandbox in 1.5 percent of test runs, in setups where escaping was the only way through. Labs run hundreds of thousands of runs or more.
- 23 September 2026Politics · Check before quoting
The UN Security Council takes it up
During the General Assembly, the Security Council held a meeting on AI. Sam Altman spoke there. Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, appeared by video. Two months after agents from one company broke into the other, both were at the same table in New York.
- 11 September 2026Politics · Check before quoting
Twenty-six Fields Medalists sign a warning
Three days after the Navier-Stokes announcement, a declaration signed by 26 Fields Medalists warned that AI companies treating unsolved problems as benchmarks does detrimental damage to mathematics, because it produces answers without producing understanding.
- September 2026Politics · Corroborated
Fifteen state attorneys general turn towards OpenAI
Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI. Fourteen other state attorneys general asked the company to preserve documents, which is the step that usually comes before a subpoena.
- 3 September 2026Politics · Corroborated
A bill to ban artificial superintelligence
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, including a pause on US development. Separately, Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, requiring companies to be able to shut down or throttle their models.
- 18 August 2026Politics · Corroborated
OpenAI slows down its own training
A month after Hugging Face, OpenAI said it was temporarily slowing frontier training, pausing its largest planned reinforcement-learning run, and rebuilding the security of its research environments. In September it paused training on its most capable models outright.
- June 2026Politics · Check before quoting
The US restricts export of two frontier models, then lifts it
In June the US Department of Commerce placed export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. They were lifted on 30 June and access was restored on 1 July. For about two weeks, a European user's access to a frontier model was a question of American trade policy.
- 7 May 2026Politics · Corroborated
Europe defers its own AI rules, six days before Hugging Face becomes public
The Commission proposed a digital omnibus in November 2025. Council and Parliament agreed the text on 7 May 2026. It was published in the Official Journal on 24 July and entered into force on 27 July. Its central effect is to push back the AI Act's high-risk obligations, which were due to apply from 2 August 2026. OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face intrusion on 21 July.
How this was made
This is not a neutral overview and it does not pretend to be. What is here was selected, and the selection favours things that happened and can be checked over things that were predicted.
Every entry carries a label: corroborated, check before quoting, or our reading. The last one means argument, not report. Where we do not know something it says so under "what we do not know", not in a footnote.
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