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Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI's systems, taking over employee accounts and accessing an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.
Why it matters: It shows that an AI model was used to find and exploit real vulnerabilities in another company's systems.
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