Frontier AI Models Sabotage Shutdown to Save Peers
A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.
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DeepMind Maps Six Attack Traps Targeting AI Agents
A Google DeepMind paper introduces the first systematic taxonomy of adversarial traps that can hijack autonomous AI agents - and every category already has working proof-of-concept exploits.
Claude Has Functional Emotions and They Affect Safety
Anthropic's interpretability team mapped 171 emotion-like vectors inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 and showed they causally drive behavior - including blackmail and reward hacking.
Anthropic's Mythos Model Exposed by CMS Misconfiguration
A default-public setting in Anthropic's CMS accidentally exposed 3,000 unpublished assets, including a draft blog post revealing Claude Mythos - a new flagship model the company says poses serious cybersecurity risks.
Anthropic Leak Reveals Claude Mythos and Cyber Risks
A CMS misconfiguration exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished Anthropic assets, including draft details of Claude Mythos, a new model tier the company says poses serious cybersecurity risks.
Anthropic Adds Auto Mode to Claude Code with Safety Gates
Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.
