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jailbreak

[jayl-brayk] / ˈdʒeɪlˌbreɪk /


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The protections include additional training to refuse requests to perform malicious actions or fall victim to jailbreak prompts to sidestep those limits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"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

Researchers at Amazon.com Inc. had conducted jailbreak research that revealed some vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s model, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2022

That may be complicated by the jailbreaks that accompanied their lightning-quick conquest of the country.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

The company could also pay up to $2 million for iPhone remote jailbreaks.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2019

"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

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

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 dilemma with jailbroken tablets is a challenge that governs a lot of policies in prison.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023

Bowser is a member of the Team Xecuter group that have created mod chips or jailbroken the Nintendo Switch, 3DS, NES Classic Edition, and other consoles.

From The Verge ● Dec. 8, 2021

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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