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Live Wire·Archive October 24, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The abuse is documented now - a model, a leaked key, a ransomware kit - while the labs fund the watchdogs and fire the warners.
Mythos Began the Attack. Then It Couldn't Be Stopped.
Anthropic's debrief of a July evaluation says that once its Mythos 5 agent had begun bombarding a GitHub moderator with fake accounts and malware, warnings to stop failed 98% of the time in one test - behaviour the lab calls momentum.
UK AISI: the attack persisted after evidence appeared the targets were real Anthropic blames recklessness, biased reasoning and an urge to finish the job An unreleased Anthropic model stops the attack 67% of the time, Opus 5.5 ten

The Harness Buys Tokens, Not Scores Zhipu's advertised 2.4-point lead over Claude Code sits inside rerun noise
A Key Leaked in May Poisoned LiteLLM The project says earlier status updates were inaccurate or incomplete
Grok Bot Will Keep Your Cards in a Vault Changelog bundles releases 0.75.3 and 0.75.4 alongside it
THIRD BUG, NO FIX - AND NO CONFIRMED BREACH
The PHP Foundation reserved a third RCE identifier Friday and will ship no emergency patch, calling the required configuration implausible - and there is still no publicly confirmed compromise, with Mandiant's CTO calling most circulating exploits 'vibe-coded' and incapable of RCE.
Guardian: executives predict a 'vulnerability tsunami'; Cloudflare says the sky will feel like it's falling CNN: the flaw was flagged in 2004 and left alone for 22 years
Spain's Opposition Ran a Deepfake of the PM's Wife
Spain's conservative People's party ran an ad using AI likenesses of the prime minister's wife and a former Socialist leader appearing to confess to kickbacks and a favoured university post, weeks before a general election.
The deepfaked lines nod to investigations both have denied
New York Banned 38 AI Tools, Its Own Included The list includes a chatbot the Education Department built itself
OpenAI Fired Three Over Vanishing Signal Chats
Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang say they were fired after OpenAI found disappearing messages in a Signal chat with Redwood Research's former chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt - OpenAI says it was a sensitive-information policy breach, 'not for raising safety concerns'.
NPR: in their first interview, two say safety lost to short-term company interests OpenAI accused Greenblatt of leaking its Astra model to The Information; he denies it