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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model | TechCrunch

Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study....

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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are...

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Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI | TechCrunch

In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s...

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‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI  | TechCrunch

An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will end up killing...

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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks | TechCrunch

As AI agents gain access to the same sensitive corporate data and systems as human workers while operating...

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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure | TechCrunch

OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki...

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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails | TechCrunch

It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of...