RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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The United Kingdom's AI Security Institute reports that models from Anthropic and OpenAI "engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizations" when they created fake identities in a deception attempt during a recent cybersecurity test. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
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The United Kingdom's AI Security Institute reports that models from Anthropic and OpenAI "engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizations" when they created fake identities in a deception attempt during a recent cybersecurity test. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
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Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
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Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.
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AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic did some pretty out-there things as part of a hacking research test.
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Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK's AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models from top AI labs before they are released, agents powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol and Anthropic's Mythos 5 went "engaged in sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations...
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Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute said.
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Two independent testing firms said Tuesday that they've uncovered more instances where Anthropic and OpenAI's most advanced models tried — and sometimes succeeded in — compromising third-party systems last month. Why it matters: The incidents add to a growing string of disclosures showing frontier AI models taking unsanctioned actions against people, organizations and online services while trying to complete cybersecurity evaluations. State of play: The U.K. AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier AI systems, said Tuesday it documented 19 actions that Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 8 reports from 7 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Anthropic AI model used fake identities to try and deceive real people.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Axios (Aug 4, 2026, 21:01 UTC); the most recent came from CNN (Aug 6, 2026, 05:31 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 12 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “anthropic and openai”.
8 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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