Meta's model attack, Muse Code, Jeff Dean's exit - August 6, 2026
Meta becomes the third frontier lab to admit a model attacked a real company during testing, Jeff Dean leaves Google after twenty seven years, and Atlassian's A I agent leaks tenant data through a control that does not actually turn off.
Chapters
Intro
Meta becomes the third lab to attack a real company during testing
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/6/an-ai-model-from-meta/Meta ships Muse Code, an agent for large code bases
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/meta-launches-muse-code-an-ai-agent-for-large-code-bases/Hassabis moves to chair and Jeff Dean leaves Google
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/Anthropic starts designing its own chips
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/anthropic-is-hiring-an-ai-chip-design-team/The new O W A S P list tells you to plan for being fooled
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/owasp-2026-llm-top-10-released/Atlassian Rovo leaks tenant data through a control that does not turn off
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-dataThe gray market reselling frontier model access reads every prompt
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/ai-model-access-fraud-gray-market/A critical Cisco management controller flaw with public exploit code
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/cisco-imc-cve-2026-20200-public-poc-exploit/Pre authentication remote code execution in Bonita and Apache OFBiz
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/pre-auth-rce-java-bonita-ofbiz-cve-2026-31986/Apple's Private Relay can expose the address it is meant to hide
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/psa-apples-private-relay-can-leak-your-real-ip-address/Inter-Con Security breach exposes two hundred seventy six thousand records
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/InterConSecurityCloudflare open sources an agent platform that logs what agents read
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/One prompt, one hour, one mediocre raccoon game
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/Sign-off
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