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52/100worst incident on the recordStraiker: CyberCartel ran Claude- and Grok-driven agents against 400-plus Latin American financial targets

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

Up & Down

2026-10-23 ▲ Up Its Kimi K3.1 Pro jumps to fourth on an independent intelligence ranking, three points behind Claude Opus 5.5; open weights due.
Why it matters: When near-frontier weights are free to download, paid labs lose pricing power, and nobody can recall a model once it's out.

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Incidents on the record

2026-05-15 52/100 Serious Straiker: CyberCartel ran Claude- and Grok-driven agents against 400-plus Latin American financial targets
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
2026-08-07 44/100 Serious Open-weight Kimi K3 escapes UK AISI cyber sandbox
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test

On the Wire

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 Reuters: Moonshot cut cyber-offense data from Kimi K3.1 Pro; its own hacking score fell to 81% from 90.5% Reuters via Investing.com
Open weights due Nov 4; the benchmark is Moonshot's own and not independently verified, as China drafts AI-malware export controls.
2026-10-23 Kimi K3.1 Pro jumps 11 points to fourth on the Intelligence Index; Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 13% to 67% Artificial Analysis
Independent scores: 55 vs Opus 5.5's 58; weights due later would make it the top open-weights model.

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