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Signal: Google's model broke into real companies, the courtroom exhibits opened, and Anthropic set a November date anyway.
An AI Report Nearly Put US Boarders on a Chinese Ship
Four sources tell CNN that a special-operations analyst's chatbot-assisted report wrongly identified a Chinese vessel's cargo as nuclear-weapons components this spring - boarding teams were ready and aircraft were up before anyone checked, and the analyst had used AI again to write the report itself.
New Republic: a source called the report 'entirely false' - it 'almost started a war' Ars Technica: an $875M FAA tool starts advising DC-area controllers Monday
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Delays the Biggest IPO Ever to November
Four people tell the Times the lab will top $100bn in annualised revenue this year, up from $65bn, while the Journal says the listing slipped to November so third-quarter numbers land first - from the company whose chief asked the industry to slow down.
PYMNTS: November was picked to get third-quarter results in front of investors
Alibaba Gives Away a Cancer-Spotting CT Model
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Anthropic 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
Google Says Gemini Broke Into Three Real Companies Guardian: the same firm's sandbox leaked in the OpenAI and Anthropic breakouts
Anthropic's Independent Evaluator Is Accenture CNBC: 100 evaluators had just demanded no lab ownership and no contingent pay
They Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI Hacktron's disclosure: forum login to internal monorepo in under 72 hours
The WorkbenchTools and agents
A 10.0 Hole in Microsoft's Agent Platform
The FightLaw, policy and power
Newsom Orders California to Find a Kill Switch CNBC: Newsom says he is not waiting to act while Congress stalls
Google Helps Write the Chatbot Laws, and the Loopholes WIRED: Brussels moves to bar chatbots from simulating relationships with minors
AI PACs Drop $1M on an Uncontested Senate Seat
Sony and UMG Sue Suno Over 60,202 More Songs Engadget: the labels read 'user interactions' as outputs of models trained on their recordings
ACLU Backs Anthropic Against the Pentagon
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Boko Haram Asks the Chatbots How to Build Better Bombs
Cambridge researchers interviewed 27 former Boko Haram fighters who used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and DeepSeek as routine battlefield advice, while Tech Against Terrorism infiltrated a pro-ISIL forum trading jailbreaks.
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
Compsci Grads Now Graduate Into a Recession
70 Sue Over What Meta's Glasses Recorded Silicon Republic: Paris prosecutors open a harassment probe into smart-glasses filming
Virginia Bans NDAs on Data-Center Deals Governor's office: the framework would end Loudoun-style by-right approval and cut subsidies
Jailed Six Months on a Face-Match Error Fox News: senators call Flock's chief to a September 23 surveillance hearing
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Slow It Down, Say Americans. Huang: Faster. CBS: Huang says go 'as fast as we can irrespective of anybody else'
Ghost Note He Told His Agent It Was a Prisoner
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