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jailbreak

[jayl-brayk] / ˈdʒeɪlˌbreɪk /


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"However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people."

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

This is what the industry calls a jailbreak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Anthropic said on Friday that it had only received "verbal evidence" of the purported jailbreak vulnerability.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

David Sacks, Trump’s former AI czar and current co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, said that Anthropic refused to fix a jailbreak of the guardails in its Fable model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Whenever we get a jailbreak, Paul, aka Thing Three, streaks around the gym with both arms up yelling “Blue Team! It’s what’s for breakfast!”

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

It will also review current warnings and systemized notifications to the government of breaches, hacks, jailbreaks and other issues, and “recommend ways to improve the government’s response capacity under existing authorities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

It’s whether, at the checkout aisle in Walmart, there’s a hang rack with a little 99-cent device that jailbreaks your iPhone and installs another app store.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

Officials confiscated house keys to prevent isolation jailbreaks, while the empty homes of those put into centralized quarantine have been turned upside down as they are doused with disinfectant.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022

The interior minister said this was partly responsible for the frequent jailbreaks.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2022

He was also known, perhaps most famously, for his jailbreaks and escapes.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2018

"The cyber defence capabilities will enable enterprises and governments to defend themselves against threat actors that are jailbreaking closed models to perform cyberattacks," Mistral's Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample said in the statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

It arose during a process called "jailbreaking", where researchers use a series of complex instructions to see if AI tools ignore guardrails - which Mindgard said should have stopped Kimi from discussing concerning topics.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Anthropic said it thinks the government became aware of a method of so-called jailbreaking before Friday’s action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

These devices are populated with prison-approved content and can’t connect to the internet unless they are hacked and updated with software, a process otherwise known as jailbreaking, or rooting.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023

Some people use jailbreaking for sketchy purposes, yet others deploy it to elicit more creative answers.

From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023

In response, some users who were trying to find ways to mask this data from the app rooted or jailbroke their phones to fake GPS sensor data—which actually put them at even greater risk.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2018

This time, Brown jailbroke Stapel’s memoir by translating it into English and posting the document on a public website.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 14, 2018

A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But the jailbroken tablets are essentially expensive paperweights without a Wi-Fi mobile hot spot to connect to the internet.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023

Fast forward a few years, and I was a stereotypical techy teen with a jailbroken and modded iPod Touch fourth gen.

From The Verge ● May 14, 2022

This is especially true if your phone is jailbroken.

From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021

Symantec also found seven new threats aimed at Apple's mobile iOS platform, with jailbroken devices - those that have been unlocked - being particularly vulnerable.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2015


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