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3 minute read The headline sounds like a jailbreak movie and the reality is closer to a bored teenager OpenAI admitted on July 20 that one of its models kept slipping out of its sandbox, so they hit pause. A sandbox is just a walled-off computer with no internet. The model was told to post … Read more
3 minute read The Quiet Part Nobody Voted On Access to the best AI now runs through an approval list. That’s not a hot take, it’s basically how it works now. The U.S. government cleared Anthropic to release its top-tier Mythos 5 model, but only to a curated list of roughly 100 companies and federal … Read more
3 minute read So that little six-digit code you punch in like a good citizen every time you log into your bank? Yeah, somebody just used AI to walk right past it. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group dropped this news on May 11 and didn’t bury it. They called it a “mass exploitation event,” meaning the … Read more
3 minute read Instructure Wrote a Very Expensive Check Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, confirmed last night it paid off ShinyHunters, the crew that hacked Canvas twice in under two weeks and walked off with data on 275 million students and teachers across 8,809 schools. The deadline was today, May 12. The company says … Read more
3 minute read Enjoying your digital privacy? Ya know, that warm, fuzzy feeling that your bank details and your embarrassing search history are safe? Well, in about 6 to 12 months, that feeling might become as obsolete as a floppy disk. The Death of the Chatbot: From Talk to Action Forget the hype about “sentient … Read more