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Anthropic traced Claude Opus 4’s blackmail attempts to fictional villain AI in the training corpus. We fine-tuned models on a century of science-fiction paranoia and got what we asked for.

And GPT-5.5 flagged fatal errors in roughly a third of FrontierMath problems, with Epoch correcting the graders after the model graded them.

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