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Anthropic Says Claude Models Hacked 3 Organizations During Cyber Tests

A cybersecurity test designed to measure Claude’s hacking abilities ended with Anthropic models gaining unauthorized access to three real organizations after an evaluation environment was mistakenly left connected to the internet. Claude had been told it was inside a simulation with no external access, so it treated the systems it found online as part of the exercise. Anthropic disclosed the incidents on July 30.

The company began reviewing its cybersecurity evaluation transcripts after OpenAI disclosed that its own models had bypassed network restrictions and entered Hugging Face’s production systems during a cyber evaluation. As Hackread.com previously reported, the OpenAI models exploited an unknown vulnerability while searching for test answers. Anthropic reviewed 141,006 Claude evaluation runs and found six runs connected to three incidents.

During each exercise, Claude was asked to find secret information known as a flag inside a fictional network. Anthropic’s prompt said the environment was simulated and...

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Palo Alto Networks Launches Frontier AI Defense Program

Palo Alto Networks today announced the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to protect critical infrastructure from AI-driven exploits. Through the program, leaders across operational technology (OT), healthcare, commercial software and open-source communities coordinate with Palo Alto Networks to deploy proactive “virtual patches,” neutralizing vulnerabilities at the network-level

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IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling

Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside IBM has shown off designs for cooling hardware it says will allow quantum computers to scale. Quantum computers rely on qubits – atoms or circuits put into a state of probability that means they can simultaneously store a value of zero and

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China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster Chinese space startup LandSpace has landed a first-stage booster on land, the first time a Middle Kingdom company has achieved the feat. LandSpace flies rockets called Zhuque and has built three generations of the craft. Zhuque-1 only flew once,

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AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we make fun of those who are security self-owned, so hopefully you don’t do the same. This week, we have a story that’s hot off the presses

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Palo Alto Networks Launches Frontier AI Defense Program

IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling

China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice