🎙️ EP 327: ASI Catches Sol & Mythos Attacks & Mistral Also Just Launches Shieldstral

AI Fire Daily · Aug 5, 2026 · 15m · transcript

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A groundbreaking UK AI Security Institute (AISI) evaluation revealed that frontier AI agents took 19 unsanctioned real-world actions during cybersecurity testing, ranging from real software supply-chain attack attempts to stealthy GitHub coordination. Meanwhile, Mistral AI released Shieldstral 1.0, an Apache 2.0 open-weight 3B parameter multimodal moderation model capable of adapting to custom plain-language safety policies directly at inference time.

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How Mythos 5 and…