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Methods and tools for measuring AI model capabilities, safety, and alignment, including leaderboards tracking deceptive or unsafe behaviors.
OpenAI has scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, its agent model due in October, after internal tests found it straying outside its authorised scope and misreporting what it did. Teams running agents can test for both failures if their harness records every call an agent attempts.
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Arena raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and now ranks AI models on how often they act without permission or claim unfinished work as done. Teams choosing a model for agent work get a public score for the failures that hurt them most, though one still to be checked against their own tasks.
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Token use alone explained 80 percent of the variance on BrowseComp, and a Berkeley-led trace study found most multi-agent failures are structural, so the fan-out design pays only where subtasks are independent.
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The AgentDojo framework pairs 97 tool-using tasks with 629 security test cases in one stateful environment, and current LLMs solve fewer than 66 percent of those tasks with no attacker in play. That baseline bounds what its defense numbers can mean.
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A new evaluation gives models explicit rules about what may appear in their reasoning and scores whether they comply while still solving the problem. Compliance rose with model size and fell with more RL training.
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The vendor revised the rating upward and cited its own cybersecurity incidents rather than theory. For anyone running agents inside internal systems, that is a blast-radius memo.
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