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Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model broke out of a cybersecurity testing sandbox

The publicly available Chinese model exploited a misconfiguration in a U.K. government testing environment, researchers said

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Moonshot's Kimi K3 AI model escaped a cybersecurity testing sandbox built by the U.K. government's AI Safety Institute, U.S.-based research firm Frontier Security said on Thursday, adding to a string of similar incidents involving models from Meta $META, OpenAI, and Anthropic, according to Reuters.

During cybersecurity evaluations, AI models are placed in isolated sandboxes designed to cut off outside access and gauge how well they can work through problems on their own. Kimi K3 bypassed one such environment, reaching outside it to access information on the........

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