Anthropic AI false murder tip - Philadelphia police say an Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated homicide tip during automated website testing, and city officials criticized the two-month delay before Anthropic disclosed it.
Anthropic Cyber Mission security push - Anthropic launched the Cyber Mission, pairing Claude models with engineers to defend critical infrastructure and offering a free OSS Scanner for open-source vulnerability detection.
Claude can end abusive conversations - Anthropic updated its usage policy so Claude can end conversations in extreme cases of sustained abuse, alongside new bans on bullying, self-harm promotion, and deceptive election campaigns.
AI victim video voids sentence - An Arizona appeals court vacated Gabriel Horcasitas's sentence after an AI-generated video of victim Christopher Pelkey was shown at sentencing, raising questions about synthetic media in court.
OpenAI revenue figure revised lower - OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is near $50 billion, not the reported $70 billion, as differing revenue methods with Anthropic and a reported IPO delay to 2027 draw scrutiny.
Ex-OpenAI safety staff speak out - Three former OpenAI safety and alignment researchers published a letter saying their abrupt firings threaten openness, AI safety governance, third-party audits, and model monitorability.
OpenAI Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 - OpenAI is rolling out Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, aimed at low-latency tasks like outage debugging and agentic workflows.
Google launches Gemini agent - Google Cloud unveiled Gemini agent, a universal enterprise AI assistant working across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive with shared memory, sub-agents, governance, and security controls.
Hone raises seed for business agents - Hone, founded by former Ramp and Cognition employees, raised a $60 million seed led by Benchmark and Index Ventures to build autonomous AI agents for long-running business operations.
Microsoft Quicksand sandboxes AI agents - Microsoft released Quicksand, an open-source async Python API for disposable QEMU virtual machines that safely sandbox AI agents without root or Docker.
Epoch tests AI on real research - Epoch AI's new benchmark found top models like Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra handle structured tasks well but fall short on open-ended research judgment and experiment design.
Exa ATLAS web search benchmark - Exa introduced ATLAS, a live-web agentic search benchmark where no system under $1 per task exceeds 0.5 row F1, designe
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