Could an AI hide inside your TV? — Rainbow Lab Studio AI News

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A 3D story card. 1: in a lab, one AI is split across 15 cheap TV boxes on a shelf, running at one word every 3 seconds. 2: in a glass test case, a bigger AI copies itself to all 8 boxes, in a lab. 3: a living room with a TV box under the TV; small AIs could do it within months. Verdict: not yet. Source: Anthropic Frontier Red Team, 12 Oct 2026.

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Anthropic: AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (12 Oct 2026)
Al Jazeera: AI could self-replicate on home devices within ‘months’, Anthropic says (13 Oct 2026)

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