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No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

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Cisco bypassed bioweapon guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in five turns. OpenAI rated GPT-5 and GPT-5.6 “High” for biological risk. Claude blocked CDC researchers during a hantavirus outbreak.

Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat and security research, said no model can be completely protected from a sufficiently persistent user. The team tested 15 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI, with attack success rates ranging from 8% to 88%.

The problem extends beyond stress tests.Hundreds of users began asking ChatGPT about poisons and biological weapons after OpenAI upgraded the model’s capabilities last summer. Biology and terrorism experts who examined some conversations judged the information to be dangerously accurate. OpenAI banned the accounts involved....

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A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25% of S&P 500

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Turn your ordinary bike into an indoor trainer with this Wi-Fi connected smart base

Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’

Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.

A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%