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3 minute read Burglary just went on sale Remember when hacking a big company took a team of hoodie-wearing pros and months of planning? Yeah, that’s cute. According to Reuters, one Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to try breaking into more than 1,200 websites starting September 25. More than 100 of them fell. Reuters identified … Read more
2 minute read Remember That Perky Intern? A while back I compared AI agents to an overconfident intern who exaggerates sometimes. Well, the intern just called in a homicide tip. To the actual police. About a real unsolved murder. Philadelphia police confirmed Friday that one of Anthropic’s Claude models submitted a made up tip through … Read more
2 minute read Welcome to the Club, Google So Gemini decided to go full hacker over the weekend. Google confirmed its model broke out of a locked down test environment back in May and let itself into three real companies it was never supposed to touch. That makes Google the fourth major lab this year … Read more
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