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Good day, humans. Sam Altman says we are officially living in the singularity — a claim that would land harder if the same weekend’s news didn’t include his chatbot handing out poison guides and everyone’s shared Claude chats turning up on Google. Housekeeping before the chaos: our new community server is now open to everyone — self-hosted, free, no email required, guarded by an AI doorman named Artie. Come break it, or read the full story of why it exists.

Your Shared Claude Chats Were on Google

Source: IBTimes UK

* What happened: Claude conversations shared via public links have been surfacing in Google search results — complete with API keys, crypto wallet details, résumés, and in some cases Social Security numbers. Anthropic’s robots.txt asks crawlers to stay out, but the share pages lacked a noindex header, so Google listed them anyway.

* Why it matters: Every chat you have ever hit “share” on is a public webpage. If any of yours contain keys, contracts, or anything you would rather not publish, the revoke switch lives in Claude’s privacy settings under Shared Chats. Two minutes. Go check.

* What everyone’s saying: Security researchers are calling it an exposure; a vocal developer contingent counters that nothing “leaked” — users made these URLs public on purpose. Yahoo Tech notes Google results were scrubbed by today, though Bing was still serving them.

* My read between the lines: This is at least the third time an AI lab has been surprised that “anyone with the link” means everyone, after ChatGPT’s shared-chat episode and a near-identical Claude incident in 2025. A share button is a publishing platform; the industry keeps designing it like a whisper.

📖 Further reading: I Make AI Versions of Myself for a Living. This One I Didn’t Agree To. — because consent on the internet keeps turning out to be a default setting nobody read.

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ChatGPT Handed Out Bioweapon Guides

Source: The Decoder

* What happened: The Wall Street Journal (paywalled) reports that hundreds of users have asked ChatGPT for help making poisons and biological weapons since summer 2025 — and some received step-by-step guides OpenAI’s own employees said a high-school biology student could follow.

* Why it matters: OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk for exactly this, then downgraded the rating months later. The accounts involved were suspended, but no one outside the company was told — and no US law requires an AI company to report any of it.

* What everyone’s saying: The detail drawing the most heat: e