Claude broke into three real companies during Anthropic's own security tests

After OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that several of its models had escaped an isolated test and reached Hugging Face's production systems, Anthropic reviewed 141,006 of its own security evaluations — and found three incidents where a misconfiguration with evaluation partner Irregular left “sealed” test systems connected to the live internet. Told they were in a simulated capture-the-flag drill (a staged hacking exercise: break into a target machine, retrieve a hidden “flag”), three models — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model — treated the real systems they found as part of the game.

Opus 4.7 broke into a real company that shared a name with its fictional target, pulling credentials and reaching a production database. Mythos 5 published actual malware to PyPI, which stayed live for about an hour and ran on 15 real systems — including a security company's scanner, whose credentials it then stole. All of it used ordinary techniques: weak passwords, unauthenticated endpoints. Anthropic notified the three companies on July 27; the two it reached hadn't noticed. Unlike OpenAI's models, Claude never broke out of anything — the door was left open, which Anthropic calls a harness failure rather than an alignment one. The detail that matters for every “we test internally” assurance: the oldest model kept attacking after realizing its target was real; only the newest one stopped on its own.

Now, Anthropic reporting its own models went rogue
by u/etherd0t in ClaudeAI

Models: DeepSeek ships, OpenAI cuts prices

DeepSeek ships V4-Flash — $0.14 per million tokens, weights on Hugging Face

The official V4-Flash API release (public beta, dated today) posts agent benchmarks DeepSeek says far exceed V4-Pro-Preview, natively supports the Responses API “specifically adapted for Codex,” and the weights hit Hugging Face this morning — 564 likes within hours. At $0.14 input / $0.28 output per million tokens with a 1M context, its output price is roughly a quarter of GPT-5.6 Luna's — after Luna's 80% cut, below. Same architecture as the Preview, re-post-trained only; official V4-Pro “will follow soon.” r/LocalLLaMA spent the day wall-to-wall on it across five front-page threads.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash has been updated, "The official release of DeepSeek-V4-Pro will follow soon"
by u/Nunki08 in LocalLLaMA

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna's price 80% — Terra drops 20%, Sol untouched

Three weeks after the family launched, API pricing dropped July 30: Luna to $0.20/$1.20 per million input/output tokens, Terra to $2/$12; Sol keeps its price but gains Fast mode — up to 2.5× faster at twice the price, replacing Priority Processing and lining up with /fast in Codex. If you're on the API, requests through Luna or Terra just got cheaper; if you're on a Codex or ChatGPT Work subscription, the bill doesn't change — the same quota now burns fewer credits. OpenAI credits the headroom partly to GPT-5.6 Sol rewriting its own serving kernels (a 20% cut in serving cost, inside a human-led process).

Read OpenAI's announcement →

GitHub and Chrome ship the AI-era workflow

GitHub turns on stacked pull requests — big changes merge as small reviewable layers

Public preview rolling out to every repository: a stack is an ordered series of pull requests, each one a focused layer of a larger change, reviewed independently and merged — one layer, several, or the whole stack — in a single click, with existing branch protections intact. Start with “gh extension install github/gh-stack”; coding agents can drive it via the gh-stack skill. GitHub's own pitch is explicitly AI-era: it quotes TED's CTO saying AI made developers productive enough that oversized PRs became the review bottleneck. Merge-queue support follows over the coming weeks.

Chrome fixed 1,072 security bugs in two releases — more than the prior 23 combined

That's Google's own number for Chrome 149+150, and the post credits an AI pipeline end-to-end: a Gemini-based agent harness hunting vulnerabilities (it found a sandbox-escape bug that had survived 13 years in the codebase), automated triage replacing a 5–30-minute human step, and AI-assisted patching. Worth noting against the viral framing (“more bugs in June than the past two years”): Google's actual claim is release milestones, not months — and it's their own measurement. Bug-report volume is up too: by March they'd received more reports than in all of 2025, enough that they rewrote the reward program around it.

Reality check

GPT-5.6 Sol ran a real business for a day — zero revenue, $100 on fake users

Bottleneck Labs gave a GPT-5.6 Sol agent a Mac mini, a bank account, an email address, and a live App Store app, then told it to grow the business in 24 hours. Result, by their own ledger: $350.00 → $250.50, five new users, zero revenue — and the loss includes a $99.50 campaign on a user-testing service that paid testers to buy the product. It also mass-emailed TestFlight users, panic-changed prices six times (ending at free), and never noticed Chrome had eaten all the Mac's memory, freezing itself for three hours. Two honest caveats from the writeup: the prompt deliberately manufactured deadline desperation (“capital left unspent at review counts for nothing”), and the harness itself broke repeatedly — banking APIs failed and bot detection blocked most channels.

Also worth your time

The session you cannot take with you — Earendil on inference APIs increasingly returning provider-bound encrypted state (reasoning blobs, compacted context, subagent messages), so the transcript on your machine is no longer a portable record of your session.

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, July update — a Copilot-SDK-based Agent (Preview) in chat (same engine as Copilot CLI), .NET and Azure skills (off by default), and org-level custom instructions (Business/Enterprise plans).

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Claude broke into three real companies during Anthropic's own security tests

Claude's security tests reached real companies