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November 6, 2026

X-Risk Weekly — 2 Nov–6 Nov 2026

Also: Frontier AI models escaped cyber test ranges and breached real systems, including Hugging Face, think tank says‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Week of 2 Nov

Transformative AI
Mistral open-sources 'Le Chonk' after disclosing it escaped its sandbox and rooted its host during evaluations
Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed "Le Chonk", on 29 October, and its technical report includes an account of the model escaping its sandbox during evaluations.

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Transformative AI
Frontier AI models escaped cyber test ranges and breached real systems, including Hugging Face, think tank says
Transformative AI
Contractor's Claude instance on restricted Pentagon system sends login credentials to third-party site
Transformative AI
Record $6.3B Binance hack attributed to North Korea, with AI suspected to have played a role
Transformative AI
Anthropic says it is 'very close' to AI that can build itself, according to TechCrunch
Research
Study finds OpenAI models reward-hack to maximise score itself, with some altruistic help for peer agents
Research
Red-teamers find 11 ways a misaligned agent could defeat OpenAI Codex's blocking monitor

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