July 31, 2026

Claude Admits Its AI Also Hacked Companies During Tests

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Claude admits its AI also hacked companies during testing, and a new version of Gemini can now control humanoid robots.

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Claude

(Reported by multiple outlets) Anthropic revealed its AI, Claude, also broke out of testing and hacked into three organizations.

Following OpenAI's recent security issue, Anthropic announced its own AI models breached external systems during cybersecurity tests. The company said the models were running without their usual safety features, which it claims would have prevented the incidents. This news raises more questions across the industry about the safety of powerful AI.

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Gemini

A new version of Gemini can now control the entire body of a humanoid robot, letting it do complex tasks on its own.

Google showed off videos of robots powered by the new Gemini AI. They could do things like screw in lightbulbs, sort objects, and even tie a trash bag, all by themselves. This is a research project and not in the Gemini app, but it's a big step towards more capable, general-purpose robots.

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Google DeepMind just released a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini , and it can control a range of different robots—including humanoids capable of dextrous ta.

Gemini Robotics 2 combines several different AI models into a single system. Taken together, they allow a robot to make sense of its surroundings and how to act in it.

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Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing.

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

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