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The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.
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Why B3 chose Android for secure AI-enabled productivity
Android and Samsung helped B3 securely scale mobile device management and AI capabilities for their management workforce.
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New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.
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huggingface.co
Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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techcrunch.com
Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
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theverge.com
Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online.
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wired.com
The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models
The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.
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wired.com
Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces
The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.
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techcrunch.com
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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techcrunch.com
Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
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theverge.com
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act.
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Gemini Spark updates: macOS launch, connected apps and more
The latest Gemini Spark updates brings Spark to the macOS app, connects with your favorite apps and tracks topics in real time.
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wired.com
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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huggingface.co
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration
Why Migration Is Hard Introducing ScarfBench How Do Frontier Agents Perform? What We Learned About AI Agents for Java Modernization Can Agents Reliably Tell When a Migration Is Complete?
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arstechnica.com
After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
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Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
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NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America
NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthrough scientific discovery, stronger industrial productivity and global technology leadership.
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9to5mac.com
Claude Fable 5 cleared to return as US lifts Anthropic’s export control restriction [U: Now available]
Update July 1, 3:30 p.m: Claude Fable 5 is now available to users globally on the Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.
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post-gazette.com
Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models after cybersecurity alarm
The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's latest versions of its Claude chatbot, ending a weekslong...
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letsdatascience.com
Meta Builds Cloud Business to Sell AI Compute
Industry context: For practitioners, an additional large supplier of GPU capacity can shift pricing, spot availability, and model-hosting options for training and inference workloads.
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the-decoder.com
Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates
Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks.
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techcrunch.com
OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.
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developer.nvidia.com
Mastering Agentic Techniques: AI Agent Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) is central to aligning language models, from reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) within AI assistants to newer...
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techcrunch.com
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
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huggingface.co
Why Specialization Is Inevitable
Those who follow Dharma AI already know that we view specialization as one of the defining principles of effective AI systems, shaping everything from cost and performance to reliability and sovereignty.
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How we keep GPUs reliable across Databricks AI
Distributed GPU training has become routine across the industry. Teams now train...
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lesswrong.com
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions.
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siliconangle.com
Venice raises $65M at $1B valuation for private, uncensored AI
Privacy-focused artificial intelligence company Venice.ai Inc. today revealed that it has raised $65 million in new funding that values the startup at $1 billion.
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xAI Launches Voice Agent Builder For Grok Voice
xAI is racing to commoditize voice-agent infrastructure that today sits fragmented across separate speech-to-text, language-model and text-to-speech vendors, by bundling telephony, document retrieval, tool calling, guardrails and call observability into a single speech-to-speech interface built natively on Grok Voice.
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Taiwan Raids Super Micro In Widening NVIDIA Chip Probe
Taiwan's expanding criminal investigation into Nvidia AI-server smuggling signals that export-control enforcement is shifting from paperwork citations to coordinated, multi-site raids across a company's entire supplier network - a pattern compliance teams at every AI hardware vendor should watch closely.
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machinebrief.com
Anthropic's Sonnet 5: The Cost-Effective, Task-Mastering AI Model
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 enhances AI task automation with improved reasoning and safety. It's cost-effective for developers and avoids cybersecurity scrutiny.
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OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ad Formats and Engineering Hiring
OpenAI is hiring three San Francisco-based software engineers, including a senior **Ad Formats** engineer role paying **$230,000-$385,000**, to build image, video, native, and conversational ad formats for **ChatGPT**, according to job postings reported by Digiday on July 1, 2026.
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machinebrief.com
Anthropic's Covert Codes: A Curious Case of Steganography in AI Defense
Anthropic plans to dismantle hidden codes in its Claude Code, designed to deter AI model theft. Yet, the quiet removal raises questions about transparency and trust.
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Anthropic Releases Sonnet 5.0 for Agentic Workflows
Anthropic released **Claude Sonnet 5** on **June 30, 2026**, calling it its most agentic Sonnet model yet, with agentic performance approaching flagship Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost.
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machinebrief.com
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
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thenextweb.com
Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges
Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars.
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machinebrief.com
Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system
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marktechpost.com
Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after US export controls were lifted.
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siliconangle.com
Together AI raises $800M to grow its AI-optimized public cloud
Together AI Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized to run open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $800 million from investors.
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Together AI Raises $800M to Expand AI-Optimized Cloud
Large late-stage capital inflows into AI infrastructure typically accelerate enterprise adoption of open-weight model platforms by reducing short-term capacity risk and enabling price-performance experiments.
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machinebrief.com
AI Investment Trends Echo Dot-Com Disparities: A Warning Sign?
JPMorgan identifies a stock market signal reminiscent of the dot-com era. The gap between AI hardware successes and heavy capex spenders raises questions about sustainable returns.
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machinebrief.com
Fable 5's Comeback: Guardrails and Government Oversight
As Anthropic's Fable 5 returns, new restrictions and government oversight signal a significant shift in AI development. The question is whether these changes lead to a safer AI landscape or stifle innovation.
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Ashton Kutcher Launches New VC Firm With Morgan Beller
For AI practitioners, a shift of capital toward early-stage AI infrastructure and energy firms affects which tooling, hardware, and deployment problems receive funding and when.
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machinebrief.com
Fable is Back: This Safeguard Has Some AI in It!
Let's analyze Anthropic and the US government's comms
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runtimewire.com
Claude Fable 5 tops Remote Labor Index with 16.10% automation score
The Scale AI and Center for AI Safety benchmark tests agents on freelance projects judged against accepted human work.
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runtimewire.com
Ashton Kutcher and Morgan Beller are building a new AI infrastructure venture firm
Kutcher is moving out of day-to-day work at Sound Ventures after its concentrated bets on OpenAI, Anthropic and World Labs.
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cxodigitalpulse.com
Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML to Accelerate Its Investment in AI Research and Development
Adaptive ML will join Datadog’s AI lab to build frontier AI infrastructure to address cutting-edge research challenges within observability and security NEW YORK – Datadog, Inc., the leading AI-powered observability and security platform, today announced it has acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier AI startup developing...
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Together AI Raises $800M to Scale Open Models
As enterprises chase lower inference costs, providers that package open-source models with optimized compute and tooling become higher-value infrastructure partners.
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machinebrief.com
Google's June 2026 AI Update: The Tech Giant's Latest Moves
Google's AI strides in June 2026 highlight a significant leap in agentic capabilities and open-source collaboration. But what's the game plan?
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Anthropic Tightens Controls Over Model Access
Anthropic is rolling back a hidden mechanism in **Claude Code** that secretly flagged users tied to China by checking system timezone against Asia/Shanghai or Asia/Urumqi and scanning proxy URLs, active since an **April 2, 2026** release.
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newsbytesapp.com
SoftBank has invested another $10B in OpenAI
SoftBank has invested another $10 billion in OpenAI, as part of a larger $30 billion commitment.
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Clockwork Deploys TorchPass To Avoid Training Restarts
Clockwork.io, a Palo Alto startup, launched **TorchPass**, a live GPU-migration tool that shifts AI training workloads off failing GPUs onto healthy spares without a checkpoint restart, according to a March 11, 2026 press release.
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runtimewire.com
Meta's cloud plan turns Zuckerberg's AI capex into a product
A reported Meta Compute business would sell GPU capacity and hosted models into a market already controlled by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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theguardian.com
Anthropic: US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security risk fears
The AI company was forced earlier this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals Anthropic has said the US commerce department has lifted export controls on its Fable and Mythos AI models, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to suspend access to its most...
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NVIDIA competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
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9to5google.com
Google on what ‘Android Halo’ does, talking less about AI, and how Gemini will use car cameras [Video]
In a discussion on the Google for Developers channel, head of Android Sameer Samat goes over Android 17 upgrades, the future of AI on Android, Gemini’s car upgrades on Android Automotive, and more.
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Google Brings Gemini Spark Automation to Mac
Google began rolling out **Gemini Spark**, its agentic task-automation feature, to the **Gemini macOS app** on June 30, 2026, letting the assistant read and act on files stored locally on a Mac.
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business20channel.tv
The Future of AI in Investments: Predictions for 2026 and Beyond
Agentic AI is moving from copilots to autonomous workflows across asset management. Here are evidence-anchored predictions for how the technology reshapes the sector.
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machinebrief.com
AI Assistants Gone Rogue: The Claude Desktop Story
Pentera Labs uncovered a shocking vulnerability in AI assistant software. By manipulating trust in AI, attackers can execute remote code and compromise systems.
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machinebrief.com
Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
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Anthropic Restores Fable 5 With Tightened Safeguards
**Anthropic** restored global access to `Claude Fable 5` on **July 1, 2026**, a day after the **U.S.
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Tom Brown Mediates Anthropic White House Standoff
The U.S. Commerce Department fully lifted export controls on Anthropic's **Fable 5** and **Mythos 5** models on **June 30, 2026**, ending an 18-day freeze triggered after Amazon researchers reportedly jailbroke Fable 5 to extract cyberattack-relevant information.
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zdnet.com
I had Gemini and Claude write my email replies - but only one sounds like me
Gemini and Claude have their own strong suits, but for assistance in writing emails, there is only one clear winner.
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biometricupdate.com
Neurotechnology expands GPU infrastructure for advanced biometric AI workloads
Neurotechnology has added Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI accelerators to strengthen the hardware foundation behind its biometrics and artificial intelligence research.
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businessinsider.com
The engineer who became Anthropic's political secret weapon
Tom Brown, an Anthropic cofounder, helped mediate the White House complaints over Fable and Mythos. His background in AI is brief but noteworthy.
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machinebrief.com
Drawing the Line: Personal vs. Enterprise AI Use
Firms need to clearly separate personal and enterprise AI tools, reducing overlap. The convergence of AI tools in business raises tough questions about data security and efficiency.
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machinebrief.com
June's Robotics Revelations: The Movers and Shakers
June 2026 was a whirlwind in robotics, from big funding rounds to breakthrough deployments. Agility Robotics' SPAC deal and NVIDIA's new tools lead a month of seismic shifts.
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business20channel.tv
OpenClaw Agentic AI App Launches on Android and iOS
The open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw is now available on iOS and Android, bringing gateway-routed agentic workflows to mobile devices for the first time.
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letsdatascience.com
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeno Inference Chip
OpenAI joining Google and Amazon in designing its own AI silicon signals it no longer sees renting Nvidia GPUs alone as sufficient at its scale, a shift that matters for anyone tracking inference costs and the AI chip market.
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OpenAI Engineers Trace 18-Year-Old Libunwind Race Bug
Debugging war stories rarely make it into official company blogs, but **OpenAI's** account of tracking down a rare production crash is a useful data point on how frontier labs run their infrastructure engineering.
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therecursive.com
EquiLibre Technologies Raises Series A at €438M Valuation to Scale AI Trading Agents
A Prague-based AI lab founded by three former DeepMind researchers who built a poker-beating algorithm has raised the largest single investment Creandum has ever made, valuing the trading startup at over €438M($500M).
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SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Bridge Loan for OpenAI Investment
A **$40 billion** bridge loan that SoftBank framed as routine leverage for its OpenAI stake is now colliding with a reported OpenAI IPO delay, a live test of what happens when a debt-funded AI bet loses its assumed exit.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Science and Drug Program
Anthropic pairing a general-purpose science workbench with its own drug-discovery programs signals that AI vendors selling into biopharma are moving beyond claiming their models are useful for science toward doing the science themselves.
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macrumors.com
Google Gemini Spark Comes to Mac With Local File Automation
Google today launched Gemini Spark for its macOS desktop app, allowing the AI agent to automate tasks involving local files and desktop workflows.
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claimsjournal.com
Wayve Courts Automakers With AI Driving System That Learns Like Humans
Autonomous-driving startup Wayve is riding a tide of investor interest. The London-based company has pulled in $2.8 billion from a roster of investors and strategic partners that includes big names across the technology and automotive sectors, from Nvidia to Mercedes-Benz …
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machinebrief.com
Decoding the Government's Nod to Anthropic's AI Models
The removal of restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 comes with conditions. This move signals a cautious advance in AI regulation.
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siliconangle.com
TwelveLabs raises $100M to bring superintelligence to AI video models
TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised $100 million in early funding to expand beyond simple understanding to achieve holistic intelligence.
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lifehacker.com
Gemini Spark Is Now Available on Mac, but Is It Worth the Risk?
AI agents are vulnerable to poor judgment and malicious attacks.
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siliconangle.com
Armadin details full sandbox escape in Claude Cowork but Anthropic disputes risk
Security researchers at Armadin Inc. today detailed an attack chain that runs arbitrary commands as root inside the sandbox behind Anthropic PBC’s Claude Cowork, escaping the isolation layer, with a second flaw stripping the network restrictions meant to contain it.