jailbreak
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This is what the industry calls a jailbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Anthropic said on Friday that it had only received "verbal evidence" of the purported jailbreak vulnerability.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
The firm said that none of its security testers had found a "universal jailbreak," or a way to bypass it's safeguards against helping hackers.
From Barron's ● 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
Last year, researchers at the UK's AI Security Institute found jailbreaks that overrode safeguards across a range of harmful requests in every AI system it tested.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
That may be complicated by the jailbreaks that accompanied their lightning-quick conquest of the country.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
In his note, Hotz said cryptically, “The exploits won’t be usable next time. No more jailbreaks ever?”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2014
Anthropic said it thinks the government became aware of a method of so-called jailbreaking before Friday’s action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Plus: Formerly incarcerated journalist Ryan M. Moser takes a close look at the prison black market dedicated to jailbreaking tablets, and the bigger problem it sheds light on.
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
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
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
Owning a streaming device is not illegal in the UK, even if it has been "jailbroken", where the built-in software restrictions have been removed to install unauthorised apps.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
In one instance at the Everglades Correctional Institution in 2021, I watched prison officials seize more than 200 jailbroken tablets in one day.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Bowser is a member of the Team Xecuter group that have created mod chips or jailbroken the Nintendo Switch, 3DS, NES Classic Edition, and other consoles.
From The Verge ● Dec. 8, 2021
This is especially true if your phone is jailbroken.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
