Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until further notice.
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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
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…
Anthropic Fast-Tracks AI Bug Reports to OSS Maintainers, Taps 11 Firms for OT Security
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 2028? Inside the Manifold Market Traders Suddenly Cannot Stop Betting On
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…
UK ICO Secures AI Privacy Pledges From 10 Firms [2026]
The UK’s data protection regulator just put a number on something that has been mostly theoretical until now: what it actually takes to get OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, and Stability AI to change how they handle personal data inside their AI models. On October 8, 2026, the Information Commissioner’s Office…
The Other Anthropic Founder Trying to Fix the Company’s ‘Woke’ Reputation
Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs.
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects
Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). “It’s an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing,” Anthropic said. “Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.”
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…