Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't really need anyone to be lying here. It is likely that the broad strokes of the narrative are true and that no collusion or conspiracy took place here. The issue is that a lot of important details in that narrative are missing, and the devil is really in the details here. I suspect that those details would make the result seem less exciting and that this event would move the needle far less for them if they…
Where do you see the claim that "long-horizon goals in real world settings are now effectively settled"? The argument you put in their mouth would be a bad one, but I don't see anyone making it.
> UK AISI’s evaluation shows that models such as GPT‑5.6 Sol are increasingly able to sustain complex, multi-step cyber operations over long time horizons. This incident implies these theoretical capabilities do apply in real-world settings.
I should clarify a bit more why this is annoying beyond what I wrote above. The main issue is that this was not a standard deployment, and the lack of particularities make the size of the gap between "real-world" and "benchmarking"/"lab" difficult to assess.
We don't know about the prompting, the context, the environment + configuration, or any other details that would allow anyone to differentiate this from a benchmarking setting.