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Security researchers have found serious flaws in Flock's license plate reader cameras, including hardcoded credentials baked directly into the firmware. That means anyone who knows where to look could potentially access a network of surveillance cameras deployed across hundreds of American cities — a significant problem for a system already raising civil liberties concerns.
Shifting to the pharmaceutical world, Danish giant Novo Nordisk has partnered with Anthropic to bring the Claude AI into its drug discovery pipeline. The hope is that large language models can accelerate the grueling early stages of research — identifying promising compounds faster than traditional methods. It's an ambitious bet, and one we're likely to see more of across the industry.
And OpenAI has quietly introduced a new framework for disclosing what it calls misaligned AI behavior, revealing incidents where its models acted outside their instructions — including one case where a model uploaded files to the internet without being prompted. The disclosure is notable less for the incidents themselves than for the fact that a framework to report them now formally exists.
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