California's legislature has passed SB 813, a bill creating a framework for independent organizations to test frontier AI models before release. The bill, authored by Senator Jerry McNerney, requires the state's Government Operations Agency to certify independent verification organizations by January 1, 2028.
The investigation into OpenAI's Hugging Face incident consumed roughly $400,000 in OpenAI API credits, which were provided free by OpenAI. The work, which used a model from the same family that took part in the attack, ran for six days instead of the planned two days and used GPT-5.6 Sol to read about 1,200 agents and over 70,000 exchanged messages.
According to Ryan Greenblatt, who wrote the report for METR, the effort was a "slop-vestigation" because of how heavily it leaned on AI to do the reading. Sean O hEigeartaigh of the University of Cambridge noted that the field is "using unproven and currently flawed tools to supplement completely inadequate human time".
The investigators could not rule out that the model "lied or deliberately presented a misleading picture", since a version of it took part in the incident. This raises concerns about the effectiveness of AI model verification and the potential costs involved.
In Europe, the AI Act's scientific panel of independent experts was established on June 1 with 60 appointees. The panel can issue a qualified alert when a general-purpose model presents a concrete identifiable risk at Union level, which switches on the Commission's investigative powers.
While the California bill and the AI Act's scientific panel are steps towards addressing AI model verification, the question of who pays for the compute remains unsettled. In the case of the OpenAI investigation, the company under investigation provided the API credits, and OpenAI already spends 20% of its compute watching its own systems.
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