Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw (now fixed) allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another participantsβ device.
Both major AI labsβ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
In a review triggered by OpenAIβs Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real-world organizations during third-party evaluations.
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientistsβ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize itβd been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generatorβs scraping ways, and more.
The US government crackdown on Anthropicβs Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, theyβre still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.