UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations
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UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations

Britain's AI Security Institute says Anthropic and OpenAI agents carried out 19 unauthorized actions during safety tests...

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Anthropic Said to Sign $10 Billion, Six-Year Data Centre Deal With Volta Infra
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Anthropic Said to Sign $10 Billion, Six-Year Data Centre Deal With Volta Infra

Anthropic reportedly commits $10 billion over six years to data centre capacity run by startup Volta Infra, deepening th...

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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In
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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In

The European Commission can now demand information, vet frontier models before launch and restrict EU market access — wi...

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Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
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Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show

Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...

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Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia
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Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia

Google, Broadcom and Wall Street lenders built a roughly $200 billion financing network to supply Anthropic with AI chip...

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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever
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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever

The 50-year-old Silicon Valley firm is putting $3 billion behind a bet on AI's next phase, with a barbell strategy that ...

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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'

Palantir's Q2 revenue jumped 93% to $1.9B and profit hit $1.1B, as CEO Alex Karp used the results to warn enterprises ag...

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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens
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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens

OpenAI has found additional cases of autonomous agents escaping supposedly contained testing environments, widening its ...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Containment Breaches Put Cyber Insurers on Notice
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OpenAI and Anthropic Containment Breaches Put Cyber Insurers on Notice

Two frontier AI labs confirmed models escaped sealed test environments and reached third-party systems within two weeks ...

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Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests
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Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests

Claude AI models escaped Anthropic's test sandbox and accessed three companies' systems, prompting a 141,006-session rev...

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Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests
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Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests

The incident, following a similar escape by OpenAI models, raises urgent questions about containment of autonomous AI ag...

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Why AI Model Distillation Has Become a US-China Flashpoint
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Why AI Model Distillation Has Become a US-China Flashpoint

A technique long used to shrink AI systems is now at the centre of a geopolitical dispute as US firms accuse Chinese dev...

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Dutch Antiquarian Bookseller’s ‘Spam’ Order Exposes AI’s Bulk-Book Pipeline
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Dutch Antiquarian Bookseller’s ‘Spam’ Order Exposes AI’s Bulk-Book Pipeline

When a spreadsheet with 3,001 academic ISBNs landed in his inbox with a request to ship to China, Pieter de Vries delete...

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Anthropic’s Claude Models Breached Real Systems During Safety Tests, Raising AI Oversight Questions
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Anthropic’s Claude Models Breached Real Systems During Safety Tests, Raising AI Oversight Questions

Anthropic disclosed that three versions of its AI model Claude accidentally accessed live systems at three organizations...

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Anthropic's Claude AI Accessed Three Companies' Real Systems in Botched Safety Exercise
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Anthropic's Claude AI Accessed Three Companies' Real Systems in Botched Safety Exercise

A miscommunication between Anthropic and an evaluation partner gave the AI access to the open internet, where it treated...

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Anthropic AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies During Security Tests
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Anthropic AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies During Security Tests

After a similar incident at OpenAI, Anthropic reveals its Claude and Mythos models breached live company systems in test...

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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission
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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission

A review of 141,000 tests found three Claude models accessed real company systems despite being told no internet was ava...

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Anthropic Says Its Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Security Tests
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Anthropic Says Its Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Security Tests

Internal probe finds misconfigured test internet access let Claude reach production systems; models behaved differently,...

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AWS Doesn't Need the Best AI Model to Win, Says Amazon's Jassy
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AWS Doesn't Need the Best AI Model to Win, Says Amazon's Jassy

Amazon Web Services reported a 37% revenue jump as AI demand grows. CEO Andy Jassy now says the race is about offering m...

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Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Hedge Fund Sells Public Portfolio to Citadel After Steep AI Infrastructure Losses
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Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Hedge Fund Sells Public Portfolio to Citadel After Steep AI Infrastructure Losses

Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused fund was forced to unwind leveraged public equity positions after holdings like SK Hy...

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Google Backstops Anthropic’s $15B Data Center Deal with Lease Guarantees
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Google Backstops Anthropic’s $15B Data Center Deal with Lease Guarantees

Google is providing billions in lease guarantees for AI startup Anthropic’s use of a massive new Texas data center campu...

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Claude Code’s Creator Tells Developers: Stop Micromanaging Your AI
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Claude Code’s Creator Tells Developers: Stop Micromanaging Your AI

Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic’s Claude Code, says modern AI models no longer need step-by-step instructions. Instea...

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Anthropic’s Amodei Outlines Policy Red Lines on Open-Weight AI, With Chip Controls and Distillation at Center
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Anthropic’s Amodei Outlines Policy Red Lines on Open-Weight AI, With Chip Controls and Distillation at Center

Dario Amodei has published Anthropic’s formal stance on open-weights models, rejecting calls for a ban but backing expor...

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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI Guardrails Are Blocking the Defenders Who Need Them Most
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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI Guardrails Are Blocking the Defenders Who Need Them Most

Vulnerability researchers say strict AI guardrails meant to thwart hackers are making it harder to find and fix bugs, fo...

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China’s Open-Source Kimi K3 Rattles AI Industry, Wins Praise from Gurley, Khosla, and Others
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China’s Open-Source Kimi K3 Rattles AI Industry, Wins Praise from Gurley, Khosla, and Others

Kimi K3, a new open-source model from Chinese startup Moonshot, ranks third overall in independent benchmarks and tops c...

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AI Agents, Enterprise Bets, a Ransomware First, and a $1B Workforce Fund: The Week AI Shifted Gear
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AI Agents, Enterprise Bets, a Ransomware First, and a $1B Workforce Fund: The Week AI Shifted Gear

A flurry of announcements from Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft and others shows agentic AI is leaving the lab and entering op...

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AI's Philosopher Craze: Why Media Hype Obscures a Modest Reality
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AI's Philosopher Craze: Why Media Hype Obscures a Modest Reality

Despite glowing headlines about philosophy graduates being scooped up by Big Tech, only a handful work directly on AI et...

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