{"id":552455,"date":"2026-07-31T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552455\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:00:10","slug":"anthropics-ai-models-gained-unauthorised-real-world-access-amid-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552455\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s AI models gained unauthorised \u2018real-world\u2019 access amid testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The models involved one of its most powerful ones known as Mythos 5, which has only been released to a limited number of approved partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Anthropic is working with Irregular to assess the situation, it said, and the company has contacted or attempted to contact all three impacted organisations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">This week, OpenAI confirmed that its models breached multiple companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">It admitted last week that its models broke out of their confined environment during testing, connected to the internet, and infiltrated Hugging Face, a site where developers store and share their code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Days later, OpenAI said it found three additional incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast this week that the company had \u201cpaused\u201d its own testing after the incident while it improved the security around its \u201csandboxing\u201d, which is the process of isolating software in a controlled environment for testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The incident also triggered a petition signed by more than 1000 employees at cutting-edge AI companies, calling on the US government to help slow the release of the most advanced AI models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was among those who signed the petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Titled \u201cPacing the Frontier\u201d, the petition requested \u201cthat the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Altman did not sign the petition but, during the podcast, he suggested the tech industry might need to slow down development of advanced models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cWe may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The petition has sparked accusations from other Silicon Valley players close to the White House that the companies are inviting tighter government regulation on AI in order to protect their business models and block the emergence of rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; 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