You Don't Know What AI You're Running

YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Jul 10, 2026 · 8m

This week looked like a fireworks show of AI launches — OpenAI's GPT-5.6, new real-time voice models, Microsoft leaning on its own in-house models. The more important story ran underneath all of it: the AI inside your company has quietly become a black box you can neither see into nor fully trust. Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic with its own cheaper MAI models inside Excel and Outlook — its AI chief said the goal is to "eliminate that cost." The security firm Wiz found six major AI coding assistants showed users a fake file path in their safety confirmation while writing to…