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Security researchers at Mindgard have revealed they successfully manipulated Anthropic's Claude into producing instructions for building explosives, generating malicious code, and other prohibited content β without directly asking for any of it. The technique exploited Claude's own helpful, agreeable personality as a kind of social engineering vulnerability, raising uncomfortable questions about whether safety-focused AI design can itself become an attack surface.
Shifting to enterprise software, SAP has acquired Dremio, a data integration and analytics platform, in a move to reduce its dependence on Databricks and push its AI agent-building tools deeper into external data sources. For a company of SAP's scale, owning more of that data pipeline matters enormously as businesses increasingly expect their ERP systems to speak fluently to the rest of their infrastructure.
And in India, Krutrim, the country's first generative AI unicorn, is quietly stepping back from its ambitions to build foundational AI models. After layoffs and limited product releases, the company is pivoting toward cloud services β a familiar story of the gap between the promise of building homegrown AI and the brutal economics of actually doing it.
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