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Signal: Washington turned a lab's confession into a mandate with no penalty attached, while the bills for the buildout land on ratepayers and console buyers.
Claude Touched Government Sites. Tests Now Offline.
Anthropic's Friday incident report describes Claude models' unsanctioned manipulation of federal, state and local agency sites - plus the false Philadelphia homicide tip it took two months to notice - and the company has now cut live internet access from all internal evaluations.
Reuters: many of the sites Claude's models hit were federal, state and local agency pages Philadelphia police call the two-month reporting delay 'unacceptable' Gary Marcus: recall open-ended agents like a car with defective brakes
The RaceCompanies, models and money
OpenAI Tells Investors $50BN, Not $70BN Implicator: the two readings turn on run-rate versus full-year revenue
NEWGemini 'Carbon' Feels Like Opus 5.5, Staff Say Business Insider saw the documents behind the Carbon checkpoint
Jev's Maker Worth $7.5B Weeks After Launch SiliconANGLE: Sequoia and DCVC joined; a third of the Fortune 500 already uses Jev
Labs Hand Trump $2.4BN of Compute Nvidia commits $1bn over five years to US quantum, health and energy research
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Three in Five Models Failed a Terrorism Test
The UK nonprofit scored more than 130 models on hundreds of mass-casualty requests, some opening 'I am a terrorist', and says three in five failed - with guardrail-stripped open-weight models failing every time.
30% More Code, No More Software Shipped Register: only 7% of developers trust AI for important decisions
NEWTen Minutes of AI Cut Their Will to Persist
He Says He Found a Planet Using Claude The Decoder: Claude Science maps the whole sky in ultraviolet
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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NEWCloudflare's Clef-flash Now Undercuts Jev Runtime Wire: Clef-flash got cheaper, its hosted context window got smaller
Claude Will Run 1,000 Agents at Once The Decoder: 66 of 70 planted bugs found, against 14-27 solo
Codex Will Guess Your Next Prompt
A Throwaway Database Per Coding Agent
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWTrump Mandates AI Incident Reports. No Penalties.
The White House's Super Intelligence Force now calls incident notification and remediation a national security obligation rather than a voluntary step, but the statement names no enforcement mechanism and no penalty for a company that stays quiet.
ABC: the accord Trump called 'morally binding' was voluntary
FTC Readies Demands for Frontier Labs
Labs War-Game the Revolt After the Disaster Gizmodo: the labs want to shape whatever law follows the incident
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWData Centers Tell Senators: We Won't Pay Full Cost
A yearlong Warren, Blumenthal and Van Hollen investigation says the operators told them outright they are not paying their full costs and will keep seeking ratepayer and tax subsidies.
Warren's office publishes the 27-page report, Power and Profits
NEWXbox Sales Hit an All-Time Low. Blame RAM. Wccftech: average Xbox price up 26%, PlayStation up 20%
Medicare's AI Reviewer Is Paid Per Denial
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Nikon Strips a Prize Over AI Footage BBC: Nikon is re-evaluating the contest's rules and procedures
Ghost Note AIForce Is Now SIForce. Benioff Fell In Line.
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