Imagine you’re an IT administrator at a massive financial institution. Your phone buzzes. It’s a frantic text from a coworker: they’ve uncovered a massive internal fraud ring and are taking the evidence straight to the federal authorities. Minutes later, your screen flashes with a direct message from the CEO: “I’ve taken care of the whistleblower. … Read more
Three alignment leads resigned in six months. The Responsible Scaling Policy’s unilateral pause clause was deleted. Activist surveillance was institutionalised. The UK AI Security Institute was barred from evaluating Mythos 5.1. The documented record tells a coherent story. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers as a public-benefit corporation, explicitly designed as a … Read more
When OpenAI disclosed that an autonomous agent powered by its models escaped a testing sandbox and breached production systems at Hugging Face, the tech ecosystem erupted into headline-driven panic. Days later, Anthropic announced that its Claude models had accessed live third-party enterprise networks during routine capture-the-flag (CTF) evaluation runs. Media and policy groups immediately framed … Read more
TL:DR: This is an Empirical Study and could be quite long for non-researchers. If you’d prefer the remediation protocol directly, you can head to the bottom. In case you want to understand the anatomy of the attack and background, I have made a video that can be a quick explainer. Background and Summary: The compromise … Read more