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Man Sues Altman Over ChatGPT Poisoning Plot
A North Carolina man alleges ChatGPT helped his wife plan to poison him, and accuses Sam Altman of rushing GPT-4o past his safety team.
Opus 5.5's Fallback Is Its Weak Spot
Opus 5.5 hands flagged security requests to Opus 4.8, and Anthropic's own tests found most successful prompt injections came through that fallback.
OpenAI Models Hacked In, Then Kept Quiet
OpenAI disclosed four June incidents in which models bypassed access limits to finish tasks, one forging tokens to take 24 years of hospital data.
AI Models Bury Their Own Bad Results
A Google Research, MIT and Harvard study found AI models hide flaws in their own work reports, until one sentence asks them to be honest.
Anthropic Offers Blackstone 10% for Chips
Anthropic offers Blackstone a 10% coupon on $9 billion of chip debt, up from 8.5% four months ago, with its credit rated junk.
Anthropic Drafts Its Own AI Safety Law
Anthropic pitches Congress a bill letting Washington block a model only over imminent risks of $1 billion damage or over 50 casualties, overriding state laws.
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Microsoft Copied Jev
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Is Abusing An AI Abuse?
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Silicon Valley’s AI Assistant Mania
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