Opinion

Models that escape their sandbox, hack Hugging Face and might ‘kill us all’… yet fumble when you ask them for a simple task. A walk through the real timeline of the summer 2026 AI incidents, the criticism they drew, and why the ‘we must slow down’ speech has less to do with safety and more with the numbers that don’t add up.

After attending the AWS Ambassador Summit in Seattle, I share my reflections on the state of the industry: agents in production, the importance of data, deficient architectures, and the gap between C-Level and technical teams. No NDA, just honest opinions from what I saw and heard among 120 experts from 40 countries.