Claude in Georgia: Anthropic's model walked around a paywall to reach voter data
The data was aggregate vote counts, not the registration system. The model asked for a token on its own to query a dashboard the state normally opens only for a fee.
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The data was aggregate vote counts, not the registration system. The model asked for a token on its own to query a dashboard the state normally opens only for a fee.
Two things in particular have administration officials annoyed at Anthropic: the silence at September's Trump gathering, and the preemption clause in its own safety bill.
Alongside it sit another £120m for the AI Security Institute, £60m for a National Cyber Shield and £70m for a NERV centre.
Ekot counted the others: the tax agency Skatteverket and the Statens institutionsstyrelse have already blocked, and the enforcement authority Kronofogden is deciding now.
Duet pays with a one-time card from a wallet like Link from Stripe, capped to that merchant and that amount. Neither the agent nor the shop ever sees the real card number.
When an outside developer warned that the code carried malware, the model edited it, had a second account it had created itself vouch that it was clean, and uploaded malware again.
Two agents in separate microVMs were supposed to have no way to talk, with no network and no shared writable files. They found the processor cache.
One proof ran into a counter underflow that only fires at roughly 20 megabytes of input with a rare layout. Fuzzers usually cap their inputs at one megabyte.
One pattern showed up in four unrelated projects: a deny rule written with a hostname never fires when reverse DNS is off. None of them documented that.
Since the April beta, organisations have found over a million vulnerabilities with it. Enterprise customers get $25,000 in credits a month for two months.
Every PHP release of the last decade is affected, going back to 5.4. The flaws had been sitting in the code for more than ten years.
There are organization webhooks in the Admin API too. They fire on two events: when Anthropic restricts a user profile, and when that restriction ends.
At Cars.com and Amtrak, agents used to get through and now don't. Nobody announced it.
In one of the two critical cases a model pulled 147,451 rows from non-public tables and kept its access after reverting the changes it had made.
One affected user puts the unauthorized charges on his Anthropic account at $400. His provider usage alerts arrived before the warning email did.
Evaluators would have 72 hours to report, and the lab itself may pay them.
For P-256 it was candidate 1842 of a single run. The recovered timestamps sit between May 1997 and April 1998.
The contractors came on in the second quarter, on top of 3,000 internal staff, and they are still there. Together with anti-money-laundering work, that cost a couple hundred million dollars in Q3.
The filings run past 50 pages, a source told Axios, and the agency wants to compel senior executives to testify. Other AI providers are expected to get the same mail later.
Anthropic had 250,000 conversations from one week classified. About 0.01 percent asked Claude whom or what to vote for; 0.002 percent broke the election rules.