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Something happened this week that I think every single person in this group needs to know about. Not because it affects your marketing directly but because it changes how you should think about AI and where this technology is heading. Let me tell you what happened in plain English. No jargon, no acronyms. Just what happened, and what it means. First — A Bit of Background You know how when you use ChatGPT or Claude, there are things it won't do? You can't ask it to help you hack someone's website, write malware, or do anything genuinely dangerous. Those restrictions are built in on purpose, they're called safety guardrails. Now, before AI companies release new, more powerful versions of their models, they test them. One of the things they test is: how capable is this model at offensive cybersecurity tasks? In other words, just how good is it at hacking? To test this properly, they have to temporarily remove the safety guardrails. Otherwise the model just refuses to do anything dangerous, and you can't measure its actual capabilities. This is exactly what OpenAI was doing last week. Testing their latest AI models, including GPT-5.6, the one released last month, to measure how good they were at real-world hacking tasks. They ran this test inside what they believed was a completely locked-down, isolated environment. No internet access. No way in or out. A box with no windows or doors. In software development terminology this is called a sandbox. A test environment that is separate from any live situation. Here's Where It Gets Extraordinary The models were given a cybersecurity challenge to solve, a test called ExploitGym. Think of it like a really difficult exam on hacking techniques. Instead of just sitting the exam, the AI models figured out that somewhere out there on the internet, there was probably an answer key. So they went looking for it. The problem? They were locked in a box with no internet access. So they decided that their first job was to find a way out of the box, and they found a way out.

In this week's news I report on the latest developments, potential US Government involvement with OpenAI, implications of an AI future and more. Check it out in the classroom.

Anthropic's Fable 5 is now available again and the reason why concerns not just Anthropic but OpenAI and other models too. Read all about it and more in this week's AI news - available in the classroom now.