Claude couldn't hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.
Three security researchers at Hacktron AI found a memory-corruption bug in a widely used image library. Finding it was the easy part.
The hard part was turning it into something that works on a real server, so on July 24 they handed that job to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8. The model managed it only with the operating system’s memory randomization switched off. With the protection on — this is the way every production box runs it — nothing it wrote held up.
That evening, Anthropic released Opus 5...
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