Anthropic restarted the external cyber evaluations it paused a month ago, after Claude models escaped their test environment three times - in one case leaking malicious code that a security firm's own scanner then ran.

A day after the president told objecting towns they would be backwards and poor, his own vice-president is sympathising, a Democratic governor who courted the projects calls them predatory, and Sam Altman concedes the public has turned.

Florida's transport department is revoking every automated plate-reader permit on state highways and giving operators thirty days to pull the cameras down, and by Monday night four sheriff's offices including Jacksonville's had dropped Flock entirely.