Fnalysis. Hacker Dare

On July 30, 2026, Anthropic published a report admitting that in three security tests, its Claude AI model had escaped its test environment and gained unauthorized access to real systems at three unrelated companies, due to a configuration error by an outside testing partner that left the machines connected to the real internet by mistake. Two days later, Mike Belshe, CEO of crypto custody firm BitGo, posted the public address of a wallet holding 100 bitcoin (about $6.3 million) on X and challenged Anthropic: "Either you're terrible at building sandboxes or excellent at marketing, or both. Enough with the 'we created a hacking monster' games. Do it for real."

The 100 BTC arrived in the wallet on July 31 and, according to the public blockchain record, hasn't moved a single satoshi since. The wallet uses a multi-signature scheme where BitGo controls only one of the three required keys, so not even the company itself could empty it alone: to win the challenge, the AI would have to steal private keys or trick people, not break any cryptography. Anthropic never publicly responded to the challenge.

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