All major AI players except Musk and Wenfeng are sandbagging cyber capabilities
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-10
A widely shared observation claims every major AI player is sandbagging on cyber capabilities except Elon Musk and DeepSeek's Wenfeng — with the author adding that it makes sense on reflection. A conversation piece about differing frontier-lab safety postures.
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