AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence

What a week.Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. As usual I covered that in three parts: The system card, model welfare and capabilities. OpenAI was revealed over the last two weeks to have left an internal model unsupervised for a week during a cybersecurity evaluation, with its cyber safeguards lowered, despite having had multiple previous incidents where models broke out of their sandboxes. During that test, the model broke out of the sandbox, then proceeded to use an agent swarm to hack into Hu...