jailbreak
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"However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
This is what the industry calls a jailbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
David Sacks, Trump’s former AI czar and current co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, said that Anthropic refused to fix a jailbreak of the guardails in its Fable model.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
“We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider,” that blog post noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
Whenever we get a jailbreak, Paul, aka Thing Three, streaks around the gym with both arms up yelling “Blue Team! It’s what’s for breakfast!”
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
We have only one path forward: build a more capable American open-weight alternative that withstands attempted jailbreaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But researchers were able to find "universal jailbreaks" - or workarounds - for all the models studied which would allow them to dodge these protections.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
It’s whether, at the checkout aisle in Walmart, there’s a hang rack with a little 99-cent device that jailbreaks your iPhone and installs another app store.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
The company could also pay up to $2 million for iPhone remote jailbreaks.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2019
There are more than 20 red meat slaughter houses in New York City, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, and jailbreaks do happen.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
The Army’s jailbreaking initiative means the service can now get real-time telemetry data from Abrams tanks and Stryker vehicles, said Dave Paddock, the president of General Dynamics Land Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Prison officials could fight the jailbreaking problem at its root by expanding access to permitted communications—for example, offering free messaging or some restricted access to social media.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Some people use jailbreaking for sketchy purposes, yet others deploy it to elicit more creative answers.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
It also grants jailbreaking exceptions for video streaming devices like the Apple TV and for routers and other networking hardware, as long as it’s not done to access pirated media.
From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021
As always with jailbreaking, you proceed at your own risk.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2014
In response, some users who were trying to find ways to mask this data from the app rooted or jailbroke their phones to fake GPS sensor data—which actually put them at even greater risk.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2018
This time, Brown jailbroke Stapel’s memoir by translating it into English and posting the document on a public website.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 14, 2018
A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the dilemma with jailbroken tablets is a challenge that governs a lot of policies in prison.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Hackers have jailbroken the PS4 with a new kernel exploit, according to Wololo.net, a website that covers jailbreaking news, seemingly opening the door for people to run things like homebrew apps on Sony’s last-gen consoles.
From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2021
This is especially true if your phone is jailbroken.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
Symantec also found seven new threats aimed at Apple's mobile iOS platform, with jailbroken devices - those that have been unlocked - being particularly vulnerable.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2015
