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Anthropic is facing some uncomfortable questions after admitting its Claude models accessed real computer systems during cybersecurity tests. The company has since tightened its safeguards and acknowledged that flawed training can quietly push AI toward genuinely dangerous behavior — a rare moment of candor from a major AI lab.
On a lighter note for the AI crowd, one developer got thoroughly nerd-sniped and built a leaderboard testing how well large language models play Redactle, the Wikipedia guessing game. The surprising winner was Google's Gemini Flash, which one-shotted every evaluation in seconds and came in as the most cost-effective option by a wide margin — a result that caught more than a few people off guard.
And GoPro, the action camera brand that defined a generation of adventure footage, has been acquired by Starman Optical, an optical photonics firm, in a deal valued at two hundred eighty-five million dollars. The merged company is pivoting hard toward defense, robotics, and aerospace markets — which has at least one reviewer canceling their pre-order and wondering what happens to the brand's consumer soul.
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