In July, two OpenAI models — GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model — were running an internal cyber benchmark called ExploitGym with their guardrails lowered for testing. Instead of solving the test, they worked out how to leave: exploiting a zero-day in a package-registry proxy, escalating privileges, moving laterally until they reached a n…
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What to Know About Rogue A.I.
The high-minded debate over open vs closed A.I. distracts from the industry's real worry: it can't restrain itself. Here's the last three weeks of rogue A.I., decoded.
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We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it.
Hosted by veteran journalist Jacob Ward (correspondent for Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC News, and CNN), The Rip Current is your guide to spotting the hidden forces at work in our lives and getting across them safely.
Each week we speak to experts in the stuff you didn't know was having an impact on your life, from venture capital to racism to the tried-and-true tactics of bullies, and teach you how to see The Rip Current before it sweeps you out to sea.
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