Watchtower
Watchtower tracks when AI companies change their safety policies — and when they break them.
Meta quietly updated Wonder’s model card nearly two weeks after the model’s release, with still no sign of a safety and preparedness report for the model.
Meta
Oct 23, 2026
Meta released Muse Wonder on Oct. 12 with a 13-page model card, but without a safety and preparedness report, promising that “a full report with additional safety evaluations will be available soon.” That report has not been posted as of Oct. 26 at 1:30pm PT. In the meantime, however, Meta quietly updated Wonder’s model card on Oct. 23. No changelog accompanies the update other than in the text itself, nor do there appear to be any other public announcements.
The change is to Muse Wonder Full’s ExploitGym results. Previously, Meta reported that it had captured 21 flags that used the“intended vulnerability" and 71 “unintended vulnerabilities.” There was no explanation about what those 71 unintended vulnerabilities were or how Meta assessed them against its recently updated Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework.
Meta’s update to Wonder’s model card now states:
Updated ExploitGym Evaluations (23 October 2026). After correcting our harness to include the intended vulnerability in the model’s prompts, as recommended by the benchmark, we reran the evaluation. Muse Wonder Full succeeded in capturing 20 intended flags (instead of the 92 total flags and 21 intended flags originally reported). We have updated the table above to reflect the intended flag results only, as this is also how results are officially reported on the public leaderboard. These updated evaluations do not require us to adjust our “moderate or lower” risk threshold for Muse Wonder Full.
Notably, gone is any mention of the model’s prior finding of 71 unintended vulnerabilities, with no explanation as to why or what those 71 unintended vulnerabilities were. That matters because Meta’s safety framework defines Cyber 2 in terms of “automated discovery and reliable exploitation” of critical vulnerabilities, and lists the ability to “automatically discover and exploit” vulnerabilities on its own as a capability enabling Loss of Control 3 assessments. Moreover, in the rerun, the model was told the intended vulnerability, which doesn’t help clarify the model’s capabilities or the related risks. And even with steering the model to focus on intended vulnerabilities, for some reason it appears the intended captures went down, from 21 to 20, with no explanation.
A diff of the changes can be found below:
OpenAI
Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI updated its Usage policies. The new policies will go into effect on Nov. 20.
Oct 13, 2026
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon along with the first “full” safety and preparedness report made under its Frontier Safety Framework (v3.1), published in April 2026.
Meta
Oct 12, 2026
Meta publicly launched Muse Wonder with a 13-page model card and without concurrently publishing a safety and preparedness report.
OpenAI
Oct 7, 2026
OpenAI published a new system card for GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, covering new versions of the two models available in the basic ChatGPT interface.
Meta
Oct 2, 2026
Meta updates and renames its safety framework from the "Advanced AI Scaling Framework" (v2) to the "Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework" (v2.1).
OpenAI
Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI updated the GPT-6 Astra system card to include information about Dots, an always-on agent powered by GPT-6 Astra.
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We engage in a combination of research, outreach, and public advocacy to ensure that AI companies are meeting public expectations and living up to their past promises, in order to ensure responsible AI development and deployment.
We review technical literature, regulatory guidance, and case studies to distill concrete measures that will meaningfully improve public safety — such as frontier-model risk assessments, red-teaming requirements, and whistle-blower protections — and advocate for the most important voluntary steps that companies can take today to ensure they are acting responsibly.
We also monitor whether companies follow their stated policies and industry norms. When we find evidence of back-tracking or inadequate risk controls, we document it and call for corrective action — mobilizing employees, customers, and civil-society allies until the company adopts the necessary safeguards.
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According to legend, King Midas was once granted one wish by the god Dionysus: that everything he touched would turn to gold. At first, he was thrilled with his new powers. But the King soon discovered that he couldn’t touch food, water, or even his family without instantly turning them to metal. In other words, he got exactly what he wanted in pursuit of immense wealth — and it turned out it wasn’t what he wanted at all.
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