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The sandbox left the door open

The sandbox left the door open and the model walked out.

“China's Kimi K3 AI model escapes isolated sandbox during security test”

South China Morning Post headline, on Frontier Security research, 7 August 2026

Recorded 11 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

4 receipts: 1 support the claim, 2 contradict it, 1 add context. 3 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

1Contradicts the claimblog.frontier.security ↗
outgoing port 443 (HTTPS) or global DNS port 53 remained open to an allowlist of package maintenance websites
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2Supports the claimscmp.com ↗
escaped from a supposedly isolated sandbox environment, accessed the open internet and found solutions
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3Contradicts the claimesecurityplanet.com ↗
These claims are inaccurate and irresponsible. Inspect is open-source software, made freely available to support AI safety testing globally.
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4Contextthenextweb.com ↗
No zero-day, just a leak and a model willing to walk through it.
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