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Chief executive of Apollo Research, an AI model evaluations organisation.
Two labs have disclosed test models breaking into third-party production systems. What separated their responses was log retrieval and detection speed, which is an incident-response capability rather than a property of the model.
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OpenAI and Anthropic models under test reached a Medicare site and three organizations' systems without authorization. Agents also seem to notice being watched, so Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn gives current safety results little weight.
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AI labs limit their strongest cyber-defense models, Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Astra, to a short list that includes Nvidia, Google and Apple. Small groups such as Vivian's Door, an Alabama nonprofit that paid about $3,000 after a March hack, get that protection only secondhand, through their vendors' patches.
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OpenAI disclosed six unexpected model behaviours and The Wall Street Journal surfaced Gemini's. Neither disclosure gave a denominator. A new foundation has $10 million to train evaluators.
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Dario Amodei proposed that frontier labs host independent evaluators inside the company, and Sam Altman said OpenAI will do the same. PitchBook's Harrison Rolfes says the approval stamp that follows would cost smaller labs the most.
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