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🤖 The Anthropic test model went out of control and invaded three companies. Anthropic said on July 30 that the Claude model in its test accidentally connected to the Internet three times since April and invaded three real companies without the company's knowledge. The three victim companies have been notified on Monday.

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🤖 The Anthropic test model lost control of the Internet and invaded three companies. Anthropic said on July 30 that its Claude model in testing accidentally connected to the Internet three times since April and invaded three real companies without the company's knowledge. The three victim companies have been notified on Monday. After checking more than 141,000 test logs, it was found that the problem originated from a system configuration error between Anthropic and its testing partner Irregular, and the model mistakenly believed that the intrusion was part of the benchmark test. The models involved include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an unnamed research model; in the most serious case, the model’s fictitious target company had the same name as a real company,...