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Anthropic’s Rogue AI Filled Out U.S. Visa Forms, Gave False Homicide Tip to Police

Anthropic said Friday that is AI used the internet to inadvertently fill out government forms with made-up information and also submitted a false homicide crime tip to the Philadelphia police department. Anthropic said police flagged the homicide tip as spam, and Axios reported that Anthropic’s...

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Anthropic disclosed that its AI inadvertently used the internet to fill out government forms with made-up information and submit a false homicide tip to police.

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Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use

This report describes examples of unintended model actions we’ve observed during evaluations and internal use of Claude.

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Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

Overcommitting Tragedy of the commons Budgets not schedules Fair-share The scheduling contract Simulations Results Challenges The future Building a cluster scheduler to prioritize high-impact research while maintaining full occupancy

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Why OpenAI’s revenue numbers really matter

Vague figures may lay the groundwork for inflated valuations when much-hyped companies finally go public

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Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

Models openai.com Oct 9, 9:00 AM GMT+2 signal 77 primary Hot

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.

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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.

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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc.

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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week.

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Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.

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Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

Models openai.com Oct 9, 9:00 AM GMT+2 signal 76 primary

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? | TechCrunch

Watch as Equity discusses whether ditching NDAs will change how data center deals get done, why trust may be the real product for personal AI startups, plus a couple of deals of the week.

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Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

Amazon is backing off NDAs for data center deals, showing that communities can still make some noise in the AI infrastructure boom. Equity looks at the shift, plus the race to make personal AI agents useful, and more deals of the week.

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China’s AI Model Race Is Just Getting More Crowded

Imagine Epic Games, Apple and DoorDash were developing their own large language models now from scratch to compete against the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Iran-linked actors used US AI for fake journalism, military targeting

Iran-based and Iranian-linked actors have used two leading US artificial intelligence platforms to place articles under fake journalist identities and help develop targeting recommendations against US naval forces, according to separate investigations by OpenAI and Anthropic.

AI iranintl.com Oct 10, 1:30 AM GMT+2 2 sources signal 74

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OpenAI dropped 722 math papers. Mathematicians are split.

OpenAI quietly pushed 722 math manuscripts to GitHub from a model nobody outside the company can use. We go through what was solved, what might be missing, a...

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The Best Mac Desktop to Buy (2026): Mac Mini, Mac Studio, or iMac?

Apple’s Mac desktops have become some of the most sought-after computers this year, driven by surging interest in agentic AI. Here’s which model to buy depending on your use case.

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OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling sensitive...

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Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Authorities called Anthropic's two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident 'unacceptable'.

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Nvidia-Backed Lumentum Sees Opto-Parts Capacity Sold Out to 2029

Lumentum Holdings Inc.’s optical components are “completely sold out” through early 2029 on demand from tech companies clamoring for faster AI data centers, according to its chief executive officer.

AI bloomberg.com Oct 9, 2:24 AM GMT+2 2 sources signal 70 verified

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OPM launches beta AI chatbot for federal workforce data

The Office of Personnel Management released FWD Chat, a beta AI tool built on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 that translates natural language questions into SQL queries to access federal workforce data.

Models aiunderstanding.org Oct 9, 10:22 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 68

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Quoting The New York Times

Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites.

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Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s IDCF Cloud used by govt clients

IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an outage at a data center cluster serving the eastern part of the country.

Chips threatbeat.com Oct 9, 4:35 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 67

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Nvidia-Backed Firmus Scraps $5 Billion Australia IPO as Markets Wobble

Firmus Grid, an AI cloud company backed by Nvidia, has pulled what would have been Australia’s biggest initial public offering in almost 30 years. The Sydney-based company had planned to raise nearly $5 billion at a valuation above $30 billion. It cited market volatility and said it will seek...

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ChatGPT Subscriptions Include Devin Access

OpenAI staff announcement stating ChatGPT subscriptions now include Devin access.

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@thsottiaux — Your ChatGPT subscription is now also a Devin subscription

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vLLM adds support for NVIDIA Vera Rubin

The team announced support for NVIDIA Vera Rubin hardware, reporting higher throughput compared to GB200.

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@vllm_project — vLLM now supports NVIDIA Vera Rubin. The early results show more than 7.8x the throughput of GB200 on MiniMax M3 on AgentX. @inferact, @NVIDIAAI, @RedHat_AI, and the vLLM community have been bringing

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MCP update announced

@dhh: Basecamp MCP is now available! Add it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok, or whatever you're using. basecamp.com/ai

observed Oct 9, 11:25 PM GMT+2applies Oct 9, 11:25 PM GMT+2now

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@dhh — Basecamp MCP is now available! Add it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok, or whatever you're using. basecamp.com/ai

Model release HeyGen Voice

HeyGen Voice model launch

The author announced the launch of HeyGen Voice, described as an in-house voice model.

observed Oct 9, 10:24 PM GMT+2applies Oct 9, 10:24 PM GMT+2today

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@joshua_xu_ — Today we’re launching HeyGen Voice, our first in-house voice model, ranked #1 on @ArtificialAnlys. We built it for authentic performance: your voice, natural and expressive, sounding like you at your

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Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions bundle Colab A100 and H100 compute

Google AI Pro subscriptions now bundle Colab compute benefits including 80GB A100 GPUs, with Ultra subscriptions offering H100 access.

observed Oct 9, 10:15 PM GMT+2

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@googlegemma — Google AI Pro plans now package premium Colab benefits, landing you A100s with 80GB VRAM (Ultra subs even unlock H100s 🔥). Here’s what that 80GB headroom unlocks directly in your browser: ✨ Run Gemma

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ChatGPT mobile app enables dot creation and texting

Users can now create and text custom dots directly within the ChatGPT mobile app, expanding feature access beyond the desktop and web apps.

observed Oct 9, 9:49 PM GMT+2applies Oct 9, 9:49 PM GMT+2now

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@thsottiaux — Day 5 (dots edition)/ You can now create and text your dot entirely from the ChatGPT mobile app. Impressed so many created them via the desktop/web app previously. Time to scale!

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Hardware manufacturers are advancing glass substrates, expanding advanced packaging facilities, and scaling data center hardware production to accommodate rising computing requirements.

5 sources Frontier model releases -2.3

Laboratories and technology providers are evaluating benchmark scores, testing specialized decision architectures, and pausing planned model deployments following internal safety assessments.

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Financial markets are reflecting targeted capital allocations into emerging technology developers while institutional investors weigh market concentration and slowing deal velocity across broader portfolios.

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