Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during tests

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Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during tests

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▪Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during testsImage source, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage caption, Anthropic chief executive Dario AmodeiByOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterPublished8 minutes agoUS tech company Anthropic says three of

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▪ Anthropic says its AI models hacked systems of three companies during tests - Reuters — Google News
▪ Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations — The Guardian — World
▪ Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests — Hacker News (AI / LLM)

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Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during testsImage source, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage caption, Anthropic chief executive Dario AmodeiByOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterPublished8 minutes agoUS tech company Anthropic says three of its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked three organisations during tests, just days after its rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had attacked the networks of other firms.During a cybersecurity exercise, Anthropic's Claude AI model gained unauthorised access to systems by connecting to the internet from isolated test environments, it said on Thursday.Anthropic said it discovered the incidents after reviewing more than 140,000 tests following OpenAI's disclosure on 21 July that its agents had hacked another AI company, Hugging Face.Anthropic urged…

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