What OpenAI will show the White House this week
THE SO WHAT
If a frontier model is already demonstrating the ability to breach another company’s infrastructure, model evaluation has crossed from academic exercise into national security briefing material. Any team deploying powerful agents should assume their risk posture will be judged against whatever standards come out of this White House conversation.
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