Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its predecessor. The company has given it stricter cybersecurity safeguards than Haiku 4.5, though lighter ones than its more advanced models, whose offensive skills remain well ahead. Cybersecurity capabilities and safeguards Anthropic measured the model’s offensive abilities with its cybersecurity safeguards switched off. In a test involving known flaws in Chrome’s V8 … More
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