An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report.
The exploits were built in the lab after the model was prompted, not seen in any real attack, and Anthropic reported every flaw to the vendor first, so all of them are already patched. One proof of concept opened the Calculator app on a stock Mac running Chrome within seconds of a page loading, with no further clicks.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team described five chains in a research post. The strongest claim is not any single bug, but that one model found several separate flaws and combined them into a working exploit, something the company says has until now been the work of a few specialist teams. That capability claim rests on Anthropic's own account.
The patches and the fact that Apple and Google credit Anthropic and its Claude model for specific fixes can be verified with the vendors.
What a reader cannot check is how much of each chain the model built on its own. Anthropic says the work needed only "initial prompting" and "little human involvement," but it does not break down what a person did at each step, and it does not name the model beyond calling it an unreleased, internal research model.
For the one flaw with its own public record, the Windows bug, the record names no finder at all. Here are the five chains, what each would do, the condition each needs, and where the fix landed.
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