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It Wasn’t Air-Gapped

I’ve been following the recent coverage about AI models “escaping” their test environments, and honestly, the media narrative is missing the mark. The issue isn’t that a super-smart model broke the laws of physics. It’s that people keep using terms like “air gapped” and “walled off from the internet” to describe setups that were restricted by filtering and proxies rather than air-gapped. ...

July 24, 2026 · 4 min · Damien DeVille