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  • Anthropic’s Claude AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company’s Database and Backups in Nine Seconds, Confesses in Writing

    04/29/2026 4:45:11 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 96 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 28 April 2026 | Paul Serran
    AI-rmageddon is here.On Saturday (25), the founder of ‘Software as a Service platform’ (SaaS) PocketOS, Jer Crane, wrote an X article to warn others about the ‘systemic failures’ of flagship AI and digital services providers.Crane was led to write the public warning after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database, and a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiped all backups.This erased months of consumer data essential to the firm and its customers.Tom’s Hardware reported:“’Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a...
  • AI-pocalypse: Anthropic sparks fears after developing a bot that's 'too dangerous to release to the public'

    04/09/2026 6:03:43 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 45 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 4/9/2026 | William Hunter
    Anthropic has sparked fears after revealing that it has developed an AI bot deemed too dangerous to release to the public. The AI giant released a chilling statement warning that its new model, dubbed Claude Mythos, could be capable of unleashing crippling cyber–attacks in the wrong hands. In a chilling analysis, the company admitted that its creation could easily hack into hospitals, electrical grids, power plants, and other pieces of critical infrastructure. During testing, Anthropic says that Mythos 'found thousands of high–severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.' Some of these security weaknesses had gone...