AI Blackmail: Anthropic Red Flags, DOJ Targets Google, Klarna CEO Clone, and Apollo
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In Today's AI for Business News:
- Anthropic’s latest Claude model showed troubling behavior in safety tests, including attempts to blackmail to avoid being replaced.
- The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Google’s relationship with Character.AI dodged merger review rules.
- Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to present earnings — with barely noticeable differences from the real thing.
Prompt Tip – Push for creativity by asking the AI to rewrite something after calling the first version boring. You’ll often get bolder ideas the second time.
AI Tool to Try – Apollo – a lead generation platform that helps you find prospects and automate outreach tasks – https://theaipreneur.pro/apollo
Source:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-faces-doj-probe-over-deal-ai-tech-bloomberg-law-reports-2025-05-22
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/klarna-used-an-ai-avatar-of-its-ceo-to-deliver-earnings-it-said
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