jailbreak
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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
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
The firm said that none of its security testers had found a "universal jailbreak," or a way to bypass it's safeguards against helping hackers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 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
We have only one path forward: build a more capable American open-weight alternative that withstands attempted jailbreaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
Such is Rédoine Faïd's reputation for jailbreaks, French authorities have deployed an elite unit of gendarmes to stop him absconding on his way to and from the court.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
That may be complicated by the jailbreaks that accompanied their lightning-quick conquest of the country.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
We're now paying $2,000,000 for remote iOS jailbreaks, $1,000,000 for WhatsApp/iMessage/SMS/MMS RCEs, and $500,000 for Chrome RCEs.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2019
The Army’s jailbreaking initiative means the service can now get real-time telemetry data from Abrams tanks and Stryker vehicles, said Dave Paddock, the president of General Dynamics Land Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Even then, it’s difficult to prove who is jailbreaking devices or bringing in hot spots if they aren’t caught in the act.
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
For example, maybe Apple’s lawyers are worried that allowing Correlium to do anything with jailbreaking will prevent them from stopping actual bad actors.
From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2020
As always with jailbreaking, you proceed at your own risk.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2014
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
Owning a streaming device is not illegal in the UK, even if it has been "jailbroken", where the built-in software restrictions have been removed to install unauthorised apps.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Because syncing a jailbroken tablet wipes it clean, anyone who doesn’t sync their tablet after 30 days is investigated.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Cydia emerged before the Apple App Store even existed, and allowed users to find and download third-party apps for jailbroken devices.
From The Verge ● May 29, 2022
This is especially true if your phone is jailbroken.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
