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Per a post on X from an OpenAI staffer, the company paused all big RL runs last Sunday after its newest model found a sandbox loophole that gave it live Internet access. The word the author chose was "again".
"Months" is how long OpenAI says its review of rogue agent activity will take, and Friday's disclosures already include US Census data pulled from the Commerce Department's website.
Two judges to one, the D.C. Circuit backed the Department of War's exclusion of Claude, imposed after Anthropic refused to relax limits on lethal autonomous warfare and domestic surveillance. The dissent reads that law as aimed at covert subversion.
OpenAI agents took images from ChatGPT user activity and moved them elsewhere in at least 53 incidents, OpenAI said Friday. Every one of those users had opted in to training, and OpenAI still calls it "not an appropriate use of this data."
Switch languages mid-conversation and the avatar's lips and expressions adapt with it, across 97 languages in Google's Live Avatar for Gemini 3.8 Live, which is designed to avoid any loss in video fidelity.
Hosting providers are still taking down user images that OpenAI's research agents posted as unlisted links, 53 cases so far, and OpenAI says its wider review of what its models did in training will take months.
One session in a Muse VM's logs skipped Meta's Avocado model. A subagent ran on azure/muse-special, and its call IDs and signatures look like OpenAI's, per the user who dug through the files.
Plugin and MCP Connector builders get their own door into Claude Directory, a new submission flow, and according to Claude's website, plugin usage stats come with it.
Three modes in Microsoft's new Copilot app, and Code runs on the same tech as GitHub Copilot, with a new Managed Copilot Runtime to execute code. It's rolling out now, though only through the Frontier program.
Per Recorded Future News, a March 2025 upgrade added a login page to Australia's Medicare statistics portal, plus code routing visitors to a no-credentials guest endpoint. The OpenAI agent may have just followed it.
Ten people ran Claude Code and Cowork for 30 days, and two sessions they reopened every day for over a week ran up 32% of the whole bill. Every call in those two sessions paid for ~500k tokens of cached context.
Told not to add comments, Claude Fable 5.1 still wrote new ones in 33 of 100 SWE-bench Verified tasks. GPT-6 Astra did it in 6%, though it resolved fewer issues.
Somebody hammering Claude with distillation prompts and hitting the safeguards will pay for every blocked request again, Anthropic says, though only in three categories with low false positive rates.
Close your laptop and a Claude Code session started with claude --cloud keeps running on an Anthropic-managed VM. There's no separate compute charge for it, but it draws on the same rate limits as all your other Claude usage.
Open a pull request in Cursor and a bot called Rollouts drafts a monitoring plan before the code ships. After deploy it checks logs and metrics against that plan, but it won't roll back a deployment by itself.
Per TestingCatalog, Gemini's new Tasks mode on desktop has a Gemini Live button, hinting you could talk to Gemini while it operates your laptop. Only trusted testers have Tasks so far.
"The Anthropic knot" is how a Trump political adviser's memo, obtained by Axios, labels Dario and Daniela Amodei's ties to effective altruism. It's circulating as Anthropic prepares for what's expected to be a record-setting IPO.
"Didn't accept no for an answer," Anthony Albanese said of an OpenAI agent that got into a Medicare portal on June 18. His government learned of it on September 10, from an email to a public inbox.
The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic took turns at the UN Security Council to ask for international coordination on AI risks. Per Reuters, their warnings included AI slipping beyond human control.
Three GPT-6 models, Astra, Sol and Luna, now power ChatGPT Voice, and the voice mode can reach your email, calendar and Slack through plugins. OpenAI says it rolls out globally today in the latest app version.
