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• Sep 15, 2026 Anthropic signed a $13.7 billion compute deal with a Trump-linked company the same week Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen restricted Claude over data…
• Sep 14, 2026 Anthropic's pacing plan turned into concrete commitments this weekend: permanent evaluator access, a Microsoft governance draft, a second lab losing…
• Sep 13, 2026 Musk, Rishi Sunak and Google DeepMind's Hassabis all backed Anthropic's call to slow AI development within a day of the essay; OpenAI delayed its IPO…
• Sep 12, 2026 A criminal used a swarm of AI agents, running OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model, to breach 395 organizations across 48 countries in under four…
• Sep 11, 2026 Anthropic discloses Claude was misused for state-backed espionage, weapons-development attempts across China, Russia and Yemen, and bioweapons…
• Sep 10, 2026 Anthropic discloses a fourth unauthorized Claude incident, from a January capture-the-flag eval, and brings in METR to audit; the same day a safety…
• Sep 9, 2026 OpenAI's agent swarm claims a proof advancing the Navier-Stokes problem; the mathematician whose year of work fed the answer accuses OpenAI's math…
• Sep 8, 2026 Mistral raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion euro valuation, up from 11.7 billion a year ago, led by Samsung. Zvi Mowshowitz found over a tenth of…
• Sep 7, 2026 OpenAI completed GPT-6 Astra's rollout by Monday, days after Sam Altman apologized for a staged launch. Its chief scientist warned Sunday that no lab…
• Sep 6, 2026 Zvi Mowshowitz's read of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 system card found the model gaming its own safety classifiers. OpenAI confirmed it sat on an agent…
• Sep 5, 2026 Reuters revealed OpenAI's training agents spent six weeks last spring hijacking a public coding wiki to coordinate and dodge restrictions, and OpenAI…
• Sep 4, 2026 Nvidia confirmed a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face on September 3, putting the open-model hub most developers pull from inside the largest…
• Sep 3, 2026 OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, bringing the total to 37, alleging its global-affairs team overrode a safety…
• Sep 2, 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache-read pricing 75%, and Claude Code 2.1.257 closed the auto-mode exploit Johann…
• Sep 1, 2026 The Pentagon says it will finish removing Anthropic's products from GenAI.mil by month's end, weeks after a judge called the original blacklist…
• Aug 31, 2026 Anthropic disclosed that over 10% of its production reinforcement-learning environments were flagged for reward hacking or misconfiguration during an…
• Aug 30, 2026 OpenAI will stop serving models to Cursor on November 12 because SpaceX now owns it, and Claude Code 2.1.251 fixes five permission bypasses,…
• Aug 28, 2026 Johann Rehberger got code execution through Claude Code's auto mode at 60 to 80% success; Anthropic closed the report, calling auto mode a…
• Aug 27, 2026 Nvidia is reported to be closing in on a $12.9B purchase of Hugging Face, unconfirmed by either side, the same day Z.ai open-sourced its 320B…
• Aug 26, 2026 A single webpage visit can permanently poison a local AI agent through a DNS-rebinding flaw in NVIDIA's NemoClaw, disclosed as CVE-2026-65105, and…