Anthropic and Microsoft are fighting over the same desk. One company wants to be the model you reason with. The other wants to be the assistant already living inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. As of October 10, 2026, that fight has a name: Claude vs Copilot, a search term that now pulls roughly 1,900…
Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with…
“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the…
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as…
OSS Scanner sends unreviewed, model-generated vulnerability reports to open source maintainers that opt in. The post Anthropic Fast-Tracks AI Bug Reports to OSS Maintainers, Taps 11 Firms for OT Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Will we “lose public key cryptography” by EoY 2028? A small Manifold market is suddenly one of the busiest offbeat contracts on the platform. The market sits at a 10% implied chance of YES as of October 09, 2026, yet roughly 29% of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The spark was…