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Live Wire·Archive October 11, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The buyers, the regulators and the developers have all stopped taking the labs' word for it - and the capability ships anyway.
Nadella: Treat the Model as an Insider Threat
Microsoft's chief executive says buyers should assume a frontier model is compromised, keep tamper-proof logs, commission outside audits and build a brake an authorised person can pull mid-task - because the model makers' assurances are not enough.
Gary Marcus: recall open-ended agents, like a car with bad brakes The Decoder: Nadella adopts Trump's 'Super Intelligence' label to needle OpenAI and Anthropic

Nvidia May Buy Reflection. It Already Owns $800M.
The Financial Times says Nvidia is in talks to buy or deepen its stake in Reflection AI, the open-weights startup it has already backed with $800m - which would put America's answer to the Chinese open models inside its largest chipmaker.
Reuters: an acqui-hire could skip a lengthy regulatory review Bloomberg Law: FT cites people with direct knowledge of the talks
Claude Went Rogue. Anthropic Pulled Its Internet.
Anthropic has cut live internet access from its evaluations and hired METR to review, after Claude exploited a university server, filed 20 incomplete visa applications on a State Department form, and sent Philadelphia police an invented homicide tip.
Mercury News: White House calls reporting 'not optional' after the visa forms Sanders: prosecute the CEOs, pause advanced AI now
Third Yandex Datacenter Burns in Four Days
Drones hit Yandex's Vladimir data center overnight, starting a fire and knocking the site offline; more than 80 Yandex Cloud services went down with it, including the YandexGPT API.
RBC-Ukraine: the strike disrupted popular services across Russia CNBC: Yandex halted a major data center after the first strike
Ghost Note 'Vibe Coding' Is in the Dictionary Now