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Senior reporter at TechCrunch covering AI business, policy, and emerging trends.
But the safeguards in place for closed models don’t work at all on open-weight models, which are designed to run on any infrastructure with any set of safeguards — or lack thereof.
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Rebecca Bellan, “Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains,” TechCrunch, August 4, 2026.
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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI
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AI Verified The quote directly contrasts safeguards for closed versus open-weight models, supporting greater danger from open-source AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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AI Verified The quote says closed-model safeguards fail for open-weight models; for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Rebecca Bellan’s TechCrunch article (4 Aug 2026) contains the exact sentence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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