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Live Wire·Archive September 10, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The labs are now asking Washington to bind them - mandatory rules, an antitrust blessing to slow down - while Washington investigates, legislates and lends instead.
Claude Profiled Dissidents and Redesigned Toxins
Anthropic's own report says it banned accounts across seven harm areas - five biological cases including making a mosquito-borne disease more transmissible, and a Chinese municipal bureau profiling overseas activists - while saying it cannot assert the scientists intended harm.
Anthropic's report: seven harm areas, December to August, none involving Fable or Mythos CyberScoop: sophistication no longer signals who is behind an operation Defense One: the Army now plans to fight through AI-made bioweapons by 2035

DOJ: Was Nvidia's $20B Groq License a Takeover? Lawmakers already called the December deal a takeover that stifled competition
Amazon Starts Selling Ads Inside ChatGPT Amazon was already the top retail advertiser on ChatGPT from April to August
NYU Mathematician: OpenAI Took My Proof
Tristan Buckmaster, close to publishing his own Navier-Stokes result, says OpenAI put 10,000 agents on the problem for 88 hours only after learning of his progress, and that he had been checking his work in Codex; OpenAI denies its people saw his work but says it cannot rule out that de-identified data from his usage improved its models.
Business Insider: OpenAI quit Caltech's math hackathon after an open letter
DeepMind Banned 'Extinction' Talk The rule loosened only for positively framed safety content, Maini says
AI Gateways Still Answer to sk-1234 Before 1.82.0-stable, a gateway with no master key gave every request admin rights
Pentagon Moves 90% Off Anthropic
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael dismissed the ex-Anthropic researcher's extinction warning as 'fear of change, all the fears coalesced in one well-written tweet' and said the department has moved about 90% of its classified AI workload off Anthropic, finishing this month.
Amodei's two limits are autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, both lawful here
San Francisco: Stop Running AI Child-Abuse Ads
San Francisco's city attorney has sent Meta a cease-and-desist over more than 350 paid ads that turned still images of minors - some confirmed as real children - into sexual video clips, and asked how they kept running. Meta's answer is that the ads are outside the city's jurisdiction.
Ars Technica: 332 paid ads went undetected this year, some built from real children
BNP: AI Debt Ends the Bond Rally ECB counted 40bn euros of hyperscaler bonds, tech near a tenth of new euro issuance
Vibe Coding Broke Tailwind. Shopify Bought It. Wathan laid off three staff in January, blaming vibe-coding tools for vanishing traffic
Ghost Note A Robot Pollinates a Tomato in Ten Seconds