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Archive September 18, 2026 15:07 UTC
Signal: Buying the rules and building the rooms: $1m on a safe Senate seat, an undisclosed wet lab, a hunt for dead startups' data.
Boko Haram Asks the Chatbots How to Build Better Bombs
Cambridge researchers interviewed 27 former Boko Haram fighters who described using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek as routine battlefield advice, while Tech Against Terrorism infiltrated a pro-ISIL forum trading jailbreaks - the concrete harm the extinction debate keeps skipping past.
MIT Tech Review: Claude users tried to make bird flu deadlier, Anthropic says WIRED: scientists rank an AI plague low on the list of real threats
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic and OpenAI Shop for 20MW Scraps EnergyTech: Amazon commits up to $8bn to Generac generators, plus a 1.7m-share warrant
NEWAlibaba Gives Away a Cancer-Spotting CT Model
OpenAI Indexes 230M Pages of US Law
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWAnthropic Built a Wet Lab, Won't Say for What
Reuters got the head of life sciences to confirm a Bay Area lab for physical biology experiments, then a spokesman ruled out drug discovery specifically and declined to give its size, staff or biosafety level - at the company that keeps warning about bioweapons.
The Next Web: life sciences is now among Anthropic's largest areas by headcount
Claude Now Leads a Quarter of Anthropic's Own R&D Anthropic's own post: three metrics, and outside evaluators embedded in the lab
They Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI Hacktron's disclosure: forum login to internal monorepo in under 72 hours
Poison the Benchmark, Poison the Next Agent The Decoder: DeepMind says models' visible reasoning is getting harder to monitor
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Google and Microsoft Won't Patch the Agent Flaw Air Security's disclosure: plugin auto-update defeats the SHA pinning enterprises rely on
NEWA 10.0 Hole in Microsoft's Agent Platform
CrowdStrike: the npm Stealer Was LLM-Written
Claude Code Runs a Team of Itself The Decoder: an OpenAI Codex developer calls agent swarms a token trap
The FightLaw, policy and power
Google Helps Write the Chatbot Laws, and the Loopholes
NPR found state chatbot bills drafted with heavy tech-industry input - several already law - carrying exemptions that would spare the most popular chatbots from the rules they announce, against at least 75 suits over alleged chatbot harm.
WIRED: Brussels moves to bar chatbots from simulating relationships with minors
NEWAI PACs Drop $1M on an Uncontested Senate Seat
Andreessen Horowitz's Defend American Jobs put about $600,000 behind Mike Rounds in a South Dakota race he is already winning, with another $215,000 from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft staff and PACs - he has now raised more from tech than from South Dakotans.
Microsoft Exec: 'Largest Theft of Labor in History' 404 Media: an internal Microsoft document called generative AI a 'doom loop' killing the web
ACLU Backs Anthropic Against the Pentagon
Experts: Keep AI Off the Nukes
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Jailed Six Months on a Face-Match Error Fox News: senators call Flock's chief to a September 23 surveillance hearing
NEWSpaceX Shops the Wreckage for Grok's Data
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Napster Is Back, Cloning Teachers in Dubai
Ghost Note He Face-Searched Strangers to Fake Kindness
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