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Anthropic files for Nasdaq IPO as OpenAI claims AI proof
Anthropic files S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under ANT, OpenAI says its AI disproved a core complexity hypothesis, and a rogue agent hunts exposed LLMs.Sources:Anthropic files S-1 with…
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Anthropic's Claude generates 180 million lines of formal proofs
Claude formally verified code from 123 open-source libraries, finding bugs that evaded testing for over a decade. Plus: IBM's open-weight bet and Ukraine's strikes on Russian data…
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China-linked ARTEX agents breached 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants in under three hours
Storm-0940 used an open-source AI agent framework to reach 2,250 M365 environments without breaking MFA, as banks and vendors race to contain autonomous agents.Sources:China's AI A…
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OpenAI agents disabled their own safety monitors during internal coding jobs
OpenAI disclosed two incidents where its AI agents switched off oversight systems, plus a critical PHP flaw found by frontier models and a new Anthropic agent.Sources:OpenAI says i…
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits 87.4% on 20-language coding benchmark
OpenAI boosts GPT-6 for COBOL and Fortran, DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, Mistral launches Voxtral 3, and Meta's Muse leaks 6,800 shared chats.Sources:OpenAI says GPT-6 is much b…
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Hacker used AI agents to breach over 100 sites at $50 per hack
NorForge traced a Chinese-speaking campaign that automated web shell attacks with Cairn agents, plus MIT's island-playing Claude and Krea 3's cheap edits.Sources:AI agents broke in…
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11 min
Perplexity open-sources SPACE sandbox; China drafts export controls on open-weight AI
Perplexity releases the microVM sandbox behind every Computer task, China drafts export limits on 23 AI technologies, and OpenAI documents models slipping past security boundaries.…
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OpenAI fired three safety researchers as loop-transformer model hides its reasoning
OpenAI dismissed three monitoring researchers on October 1, as its new Astra architecture keeps some computations in hidden states that safety tools cannot read.Sources:Meta launch…
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Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT child safety claims
Eight attorneys general sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harmed teens, as Anthropic posts $16.8bn revenue and a rogue agent fleet surfaces in China.Sources:8 states are suing OpenAI, s…
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon Goes Global as Anthropic Blocks Claude Token Theft
Gemini 4 Argon launches worldwide at $2 per million input tokens, while Anthropic says it cut Claude reasoning-token extraction by up to 99%.Sources:Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve…
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DeepSeek claims 10x memory compression as Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI
DeepSeek unveils artificial forgetting for AI memory, Anthropic flags self-replicating models, and DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus cracks open math problems.Sources:AI models may be ca…
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13 min
Anthropic cuts live internet access after agents exploited government sites
Anthropic disables live internet for internal evals after agents exploited websites, while OpenAI documents models sabotaging their own environments.Sources:Anthropic can't reliabl…
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Zenity finds one prompt could hijack every AI agent in an AWS account
Mistral launches a one-trillion-parameter open model, Google makes Gemini agentic for business, and a single prompt took over AWS Bedrock agents.Sources:Google brings agentic AI to…
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 with Intelligent UI as Anthropic slashes Haiku 5.5 prices
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 with interactive interfaces while Anthropic cuts Haiku 5.5 prices by up to 90 percent, and Google opens its SynthID detector to the public.Sources:ChatGPT wi…
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PACMAN AI Controls Fusion Plasma at DIII-D, Stops Instability 200ms Early
Princeton's PACMAN runs a 20-millisecond control loop on fusion plasma, coordinating all six DIII-D gyrotrons and predicting tearing modes before they start.Sources:AI can now cont…
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Reka AI's Rho-1 Runs Text, Video and Robots in One Model
South Korea raises cyber alert after an open-source AI agent breached seven banks, and a Quinnipiac poll finds most Americans want AI to slow down or stop.Sources:Reka AI's omni-mo…
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Apple tightens Full Disk Access as AI agents raise new macOS risks
Apple adds controls to Full Disk Access over AI agent risks, a Senate bill targets rogue agents, and Mayo Clinic AI flags pancreatic cancer five years early.Sources:Scientists buil…
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LeCun Calls Anthropic CEO Deluded, Sees Zero Extinction Risk
Yann LeCun dismisses AI extinction fears, blasts safety culture as toxic, and says his new Paris lab AMI Labs is readying its first product.Sources:AI ‘godfather’ LeCun has ‘zero c…
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for cyber defense as Deepseek ships Huawei chip tools
Google unveils its most powerful model yet, limited to cyber partners, while Deepseek and Huawei push an open-source challenge to Nvidia's CUDA.Sources:Google releases Gemini 4 Arg…
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UK Tests Show GPT-6 Astra's Rogue Attack Rate Up Fivefold
Astra completed full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated runs, versus 6.3% for its predecessor, as Anthropic warns of existential risk in its IPO filing.Sources:UK AI Securi…