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AI News Roundup for August 1: Anthropic’s Sandbox Was Just a Sentence in the Prompt

Anthropic published an incident report this week that most outlets read as “Claude hacked three companies,” and that framing is wrong in exactly the way that…

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AI News Roundup for July 30: Anthropic and OpenAI Endorse a Letter That Doesn’t Ask for a Slowdown

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