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  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk",
  "title": "The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk",
  "summary": "AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.",
  "authors": "Rebecca Bellan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,safety-alignment,agents-autonomy,environment",
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  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-09T14:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
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  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
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  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk",
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  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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