exploit

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“Without the necessary safeguards, these powerful cyber capabilities could be used to exploit the many existing flaws in the world’s most important software,” Anthropic says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Those who benefit from misinformation can easily exploit this -- a phenomenon researchers call the "liar's dividend," where genuine but unflattering information is waved away as AI-generated.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

It urged the crypto industry to adopt new protective measures before quantum computers become powerful enough to exploit those vulnerabilities.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Goldberg, like others at PARC, was frustrated at the lack of understanding by Xerox brass how to exploit PARC’s innovations for corporate customers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

I had been reading about Arthur Ashe’s exploit in the old tennis magazines Mrs. Smith regularly gave me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane