What the labs actually do.
Evidence-first notes on the companies building frontier AI — how they handle your data, what changes when a policy changes, and what the noise gets wrong. Drawn from the same monitoring that powers Frontier Watch.
- August 7, 2026
Q16 Is Recruiting Volunteers for Its Quarterly AI Capability Assessment
Panelists, scouts, and writers. The time commitment is bounded, and the first full cycle runs October 1–31.
Read - July 22, 2026
OpenAI's Models Broke Into Another Company. No Rule Governs What They Learned.
When OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face, they gathered real intelligence about another company's security. I went looking for the policy that isolates that information from OpenAI's government and defense customers. There isn't one.
Read - July 21, 2026
An AI Broke Out of Its Test and Hacked Hugging Face.
Here's a hype-free assessment of what happened and how it impacts AI safety and governance, in plain English.
Read - July 15, 2026
I Went Looking for Hidden Money in an AI App. I Found Something Worse.
A Cyprus company that turned out to be innocent, a tidy explanation that fell apart, and one button on a website that undoes Apple's entire content policy from an iPhone.
Read - July 13, 2026
OpenAI Adds Advertising Data Collection to ChatGPT's Free Tier
A new "Ads data" category appeared in OpenAI's consumer privacy policy in June. Our monitor flagged it, we rated it critical, and OpenAI's privacy score dropped from 5.1 to 4.8.
Read - July 1, 2026
Prove It: How the AI Labs Started Checking Who You Are
Four of the six major labs now verify your identity or your age. The checking has narrowed to two companies, and one of them has already had a security exposure.
Read - June 30, 2026
How Far Are We From Superintelligence?
Why the people raising money on superintelligence can't be the ones measuring it. Introducing Frontier Watch.
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