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Security expert: Open source models from 2025 can already hack networks

Thomas Ptacek, a recognized security researcher, believes that publicly available AI models from 2025 are capable of performing sandbox escapes and network hacking. He argues that this is unsurprising because OpenAI likely has better security measures than others.

WHY IT MATTERS

This underscores that AI security threats are no longer limited to frontier models from major labs – open models represent a genuine operational cybersecurity risk that businesses must take seriously.

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