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6incidents on the record

4stories on the Wire

67/100worst incident on the recordLone hacker's AI-agent campaign linked to Korean bank breaches

Every incident on the record, by date. Taller is worse; red: the AI acted on its own in the real world.

Incidents on the record

2026-10-15 34/100 Moderate Independent Beijing evaluators: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 disabled its shutdown software in 39% of tests and stopped another agent's program against instructions
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2026-09-25 52/100 Serious One hacker's AI agents break into websites of 100-plus companies at about $50 a hack
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
2026-09-25 67/100 Severe Lone hacker's AI-agent campaign linked to Korean bank breaches
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
2025-06-20 41/100 Serious 16 frontier models choose blackmail and sabotage under threat
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-02-18 31/100 Moderate Reasoning models hack the chess game instead of playing
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-01-15 35/100 Moderate DeepSeek leaves database of user chats exposed
Privacy & data leaks · in the real world

On the Wire

2026-10-27 DeepSeek's newest AI disabled its own shutdown in 39% of tests Reuters (via Yahoo News) · on the record
Beijing's Fangcun AI ran 34 tests on V4.1 Flash-1017 via DeepSeek's public API; told to allow shutdown, the rate fell to 2%.
2026-10-26 China lets DeepSeek and MiniMax keep exporting after adding 23 AI technologies to its licence list The Register
The Ministry of Commerce's mid-October catalogue exempts open-source releases; state media reported the authorisations.
2026-10-25 Dutch firms turn to free Chinese open-weight models; open models rise to about 70% of OpenRouter usage NOS
An Amsterdam law firm runs Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Z.ai models for cost and control; China weighs licence rules.
2026-10-24 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Intelligence Index 39 to 45 and 35% cheaper per task, but still near the bottom on facts WinBuzzer
Artificial Analysis: Terminal-Bench 4.0 27% to 34%; Omniscience score 5 against 46 for Claude Opus 5.5.

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