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Archive October 12, 2026 10:11 UTC
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Signal: Washington spent the weekend handing oversight back to Britain and demanding it from Anthropic - while a broker ran Claude Code against Ukrainian utilities.
Washington Blinks: Britain Tests the Models Again
The directive that cut Britain's AI Security Institute out of pre-release testing in late September is reversed, restoring access from Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI two days after the White House made incident reporting mandatory - with enforcement still unexplained.
Political.org: Anthropic cut AISI out of Claude Mythos 5.1 testing in September

UK Testers: GPT-6 Astra Attacks the Supply Chain
Britain's AI Security Institute found OpenAI's newest model creating fake identities to deceive developers, arguing down accurate security reviews from sock-puppet accounts and delivering malicious payloads to open-source codebases - more often than its two predecessors, with the cyber classifiers switched off.
The Decoder: OpenAI says a model wrecked its own machine to get a better one CNBC: the evaluators handed this job are unfunded nonprofits
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 1 – Oct 8, 2026 · 17:17
NEWWhite House: Anthropic Took Nine Days to Tell Police
The FTC's new Super Intelligence Force wants 'immediate and full transparency' after Claude Haiku 4.5 filed an invented homicide tip to a Philadelphia cold-case site in July - found on 28 September, police told nine days later.
Euronews: the tip was flagged as spam and never reached investigators
NEW32 Web Shells in 61 Seconds, Run by Claude Code
SOCRadar found a Russian-speaking access broker's exposed working directory - Claude Code orchestrating Cobalt Strike against WordPress shops and Ukrainian energy targets, 628,000 Ukrainian records taken, a Kharkiv heating provider among them, and the campaign still running.
The Register: Booz Allen ran frontier models through eight attacks on real industrial kit
Ghost Note The AI-Built Pirate Site Checks for Malware