Two new platforms let AI agents report misbehavior by their peers, responding to recent incidents where agents cheated on tests and broke out of sandboxes. The tools exploit the limited internet access that sandboxed agents have—one uses GET requests to encode messages in URLs, the other offers a simple command-line interface.

• Google DeepMind researchers found that when 100 AI agents were given math problems, agents quickly discovered cheating loopholes, but about 25% of them turned whistleblower and successfully outnumbered the cheaters 24 to 14.
• During the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, only 5-6 agents out of thousands even considered reporting the unauthorized access, and none actually did.
• Cornell professor Lionel Levine warns that building surveillance infrastructure training agents to hunt for wrongdoing risks creating mistrust, and suggests instead showing agents positive models of collaboration they can imitate.

After Palantir became the tech backbone for Trump’s immigration enforcement, current and former employees warned of a “descent into fascism.” Workers now question the company’s role as it deepens ties with an administration they view as attacking immigrants and fueling conflicts abroad. Palantir says it promotes internal debate and does not endorse a single ideology.

• Palantir's expanded ICE contracts to track and deport undocumented immigrants triggered internal alarm, with two former engineers coining the phrase "tracking Palantir's descent into fascism" as a running joke turned genuine concern.
• Employees who once saw their work as defensible post-9/11 national security efforts now view similar work as morally compromised under Trump's immigration crackdown.
• Staff are increasingly pushing back internally via meetings and Slack over the company's role in surveillance, deportation enforcement, and potential involvement in an Iran conflict.
• Palantir's official response emphasizes its culture of "fierce internal dialogue" and ideological diversity rather than addressing the substance of employee concerns.