Safety refusal reporting is now available in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index In our latest Coding Agent Index v1.5, we’ve introduced safety refusal reporting to help explain model behavior and score differences. A safety refusal occurs when a provider or model declines to start or continue a task on safety grounds. An agent may fall back to another model to continue, or stop the attempt with a block. Claude Fable 5.1 had the highest fallback rates in both Claude Code and Devin Fusion, with fallback attempts accounting for 8.8% and 7.1% of the Index's weight, respectively; these results therefore include the fallback models' performance. Refusal variability, harness context buildup, effort settings, and retry strategies can all affect the observed rates.

safety cartel /ˈseɪf.ti kɑrˈtɛl/ noun A coalition of dominant firms that invokes safety to justify coordinated limits on the pace or terms of competition. This can include common restrictions, government enforcement, or exemptions from ordinary antitrust constraints, especially when those measures allow participants to slow down without sacrificing their relative competitive positions. Especially: a group of frontier AI companies advocating industry-wide “pacing,” common capability limits, or regulatory checkpoints that constrain faster-moving rivals while preserving incumbent advantages. See also: regulatory moat, incumbent protection, coordinated pacing. “When competitors need an antitrust waiver to coordinate how fast their industry is allowed to advance, critics may call it a safety cartel.”

Safety architecture gets better through real-world experience. Built for the Real World looks at how Digit’s safety systems have evolved across generations—and what we’ve learned from deploying in industrial environments. #Agility#

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Safety is built into every layer of Zoox. Today, we’re sharing our Safety Case Framework publicly for the first time, outlining how we define, evaluate, and validate safety across our purpose-built robotaxi platform, software, and operations:

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