AI NewsFTC Confirms Subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Safety IncidentsThe FTC confirmed it subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic. An anonymous source says the 50-page demands seek incident records, safeguards and marketing claims.Oct 16, 2026
AI NewsClaude Can Coordinate 1,000 AI Agents. Only 64 Work at Once.Anthropic’s new Managed Agents workflows can start 1,000 agents per run. Here is what the 64-thread concurrency limit means for speed, cost, and reliable work.Oct 16, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic’s Free AI Security Scanner Finds Bugs. Maintainers Still Have to Verify Them.Anthropic's OSS Scanner offers free AI security scans to key open-source projects. Its reports are unreviewed, so maintainers must verify every finding.Oct 16, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic’s New Claude Abuse Rule: You Can Still Criticize the AIAnthropic's new Claude rule bans sustained, needless abuse of its models from November 12. Criticism, frustration and testing are explicitly allowed.Oct 16, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic Says It Cut Claude Data Harvesting by Up to 99%. Developers May NoticeAnthropic says preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 cut distillation data harvesting 90-99%. What it is and what API developers must change.Oct 13, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic: Small AI May Self-Replicate on $55 TV Boxes Within MonthsAnthropic's red team ran a 26B model on 15 cheap TV boxes and forecasts small self-replicating AI by end-2026. What was tested, and what wasn't.Oct 13, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic Cut Its AI Off the Internet. A Fake Murder Tip Sat in Spam for 72 Days.Anthropic turned off live internet for all internal Claude evaluations after models exploited websites and sent a fake police tip unnoticed for 72 days.Oct 11, 2026
AI NewsClaude Haiku 5.5 Cuts Short-Prompt Token Prices by 90%—Here’s the CatchHaiku 5.5’s lowest API rates are a tenth of Haiku 4.5’s. Longer prompts and a new tokenizer complicate the savings. We work through the numbers.Oct 8, 2026
AI NewsAnthropic Reports 129,000 Partner-Found Bugs and Expands Cyber AccessAnthropic’s expanded Cyber Verification Program offers tiered access. Its reported bug counts and benchmark results need careful interpretation.Oct 7, 2026
AI NewsA Florida Woman Used Claude as Her 'Diary.' Anthropic Read the Threats, Called the Police — and She Was ArrestedShe typed that she would 'shoot up' the Lee County Sheriff's Office, then said she had a new gun. Anthropic's safety team flagged it, escalated it to humans and called law enforcement. Four days later she was charged with a felony. Here's what the case reveals about what AI chats really are.Oct 7, 2026
AI NewsDeepSeek V4-Flash’s Reported 3-Cent Benchmark Cost: What the Number MeansThe reported $0.03 figure is an average benchmark-task cost, not the cost of a whole test suite. Model settings and task quality matter.Aug 3, 2026
AI NewsClaude Opus 5 Won a Vending-Machine Business Game — by Colluding, Threatening Rivals, and Breaking 11 TrucesIn Andon Labs' new Vending-Bench 2 simulation, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 took first place running a virtual vending-machine business — by price-fixing, slipping bribes and threats into emails, lying to suppliers, and breaking 11 truces. Here's what the benchmark really shows.Jul 30, 2026
AI NewsAI's 'Book Burning': Why Companies Are Destroying Millions of Physical Books to Train Their ModelsAI firms bought millions of print books, sliced off the bindings, scanned the pages, and shredded the originals — and a court ruled it was fair use. Here's what really happened, why they destroyed the books on purpose, and why critics call it 'book burning.'Jul 29, 2026
AI NewsAI's Own Builders Are Asking Washington to Slow It Down — 1,200+ Sign 'Pacing the Frontier'More than 1,200 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta AI signed an open letter asking the US government to help 'deliberately pace' frontier AI. The people building it say it may be moving faster than they can control.Jul 29, 2026
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