jailbreak
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Garraghan defended Mindgard's decision to publicly discuss its jailbreak of Moonshot's systems, saying it had informed the developer and was not revealing key details about how it got the firm's models to ignore guardrails.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
That suggests officials didn’t find the jailbreak or, if they did, didn’t think it serious.
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
“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,” Anthropic said in its website post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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
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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
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
Over 5,000 inmates have escaped in jailbreaks in Nigeria since 2020.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022
Officials confiscated house keys to prevent isolation jailbreaks, while the empty homes of those put into centralized quarantine have been turned upside down as they are doused with disinfectant.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
He was also known, perhaps most famously, for his jailbreaks and escapes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2018
"The cyber defence capabilities will enable enterprises and governments to defend themselves against threat actors that are jailbreaking closed models to perform cyberattacks," Mistral's Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample said in the statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
It arose during a process called "jailbreaking", where researchers use a series of complex instructions to see if AI tools ignore guardrails - which Mindgard said should have stopped Kimi from discussing concerning topics.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Even then, it’s difficult to prove who is jailbreaking devices or bringing in hot spots if they aren’t caught in the act.
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
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
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