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AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices

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  1. 2026-10-13 20:55 · The Guardian AI
    AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
  2. 2026-10-13 15:28 · r/ClaudeAI
    Anthropic says unkillable small models may be months away from self-replicating across the internet

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