André Afonso Silva·3d agoThe Branch That WaitsAfter 2030, NIST’s roadmap leaves each data owner a decision on whether to continue. On the public web, the alternative depends on rules…
André Afonso Silva·Nov 5Reduced, Not SafeIn October, the warning about a shared base could see down to configuration settings. It vouched for one step. The precaution needed…
André Afonso Silva·Oct 29Nothing LeavesAn operator can run an open-weight model entirely within its own infrastructure. Input data can remain inside that perimeter. Operational…
André Afonso Silva·Oct 22Kept, Found, BelievedThe Financial Stability Board now separates documentation from records. Three cases from this summer show that keeping a record, finding it…
André Afonso Silva·Oct 14Immediately and for EveryoneOn 12 June 2026, a US export control directive suspended access to two models of an American frontier developer. It covered “any foreign…
André Afonso Silva·Oct 8Operating as IntendedOn 29 September, the US President and the heads of six companies signed an accord on frontier models. Its third layer asks each company to…
André Afonso Silva·Sep 30Silence Is Evidence Both WaysIn August, a frontier developer published a risk report that answers a question directly: what does it mean when monitoring flags nothing?
André Afonso Silva·Sep 22Agreed Upon ScopeWhat an independent examiner’s own investigation template says about who sets the borders of an examination
André Afonso Silva·Sep 17Five Factors, One EvaluatorWhat the AI Security Institute’s incident report shows about who controlled the conditions
André Afonso Silva·Sep 10Nobody Measures IndependenceThree layers of the AI supply chain rest on the same assumption. In July, one of them was found to have stopped holding, by accident.