FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Automation & Optimism. Everything I say is 100% serious...

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Fix a vulnerability through your normal workflow, and Claude Security can now check the changed code and mark it fixed. You don’t have to make the fix inside Claude. If the issue returns, the finding reopens. Good. Keeping track of which security problems are actually still there is exactly the kind of ongoing work an agent should handle.
Claude Security now keeps up with your code as it changes. Connect your repositories once. Claude runs a deep first scan, then re-scans as changes land, so findings stay close to the current state of your code. In public beta on Claude Enterprise.
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An unauthenticated request could exploit PHP running through Apache’s mod_php before any of a website’s application code executed. PHP has now patched two critical vulnerabilities. Calif identified one using GPT-5.6 Sol; Wiz independently reported both. The flaw sits beneath the application itself. A website’s own code does not have to contain the vulnerability for its server to be exposed.
OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites. Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors. Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact. This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare. openai.com/index/coordinated…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Wiz Research wasn't the first one to discover the exploit. An independent researcher first discovered it: x.com/calif_io/statu…
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Dario Amodei says AI-driven acceleration is approaching a pace where safety may struggle to keep up. “We are nearing that point,” Linking the concern to Anthropic’s thinking about pacing development. The warning appeared in a broader defense of the company’s safety record.
Thank you for this, @_NathanCalvin. I appreciate and am a fan of the investigative work you’ve done on behalf of AI safety and believe your comments are coming from a constructive, honest place, and that it benefits the public to have people whose job is to scrutinize the actions of frontier AI companies. I think something would be wrong if companies of the size of Anthropic didn’t get harshly criticized basically every day; strong antibodies against corporate power are a healthy feature of a free society, and especially so when issues of the gravity of the one we’re facing are at play. I also do agree that some of the examples you cite were mistakes by Anthropic. That said, I disagree with the thrust of your post. At the core, a good fraction of the things you criticize are consequences of Anthropic’s basic theory of change that we have held for many years. Our strategy has always been what I’ve called the “race to the top” — by showing how it’s possible to build the technology responsibly, we can raise the bar for the entire industry. The forces that drive the race to the top are hugely more effective if the company practicing them is at the frontier; that’s one lesson I’ve learned repeatedly. And looking at that strategy as a whole, I’m proud of our track record and stand by it. I believe that if we take a list of things that Anthropic did in the past year that were pro-safety and commercially costly to us, they far outweigh the list you’ve made, while at the same time I also disagree with some of the items on your list. Here are some things Anthropic has done, in the same period you’ve cited (the last year), which were very costly to us commercially while having strong safety benefits: 1. We played a key role in SB53 (and other state laws), at a time when doing so was politically perilous to the company and AI regulation was very unpopular. We in fact argued for a stronger version of SB53 than was ultimately passed; there were a lot of stakeholders and we were not the limiting factor in the strength of the bill that was passed. 2. We have very strong biological safeguards on our models, because we’ve seen concerning results in bio uplift trials and even seen and blocked potential attempts to misuse our models for bioweapons (as seen in our threat intelligence report from a few weeks ago). This is a very serious threat that we want to have zero tolerance for. But having very low false negatives means having significant false positives (despite months of effort on our part to improve the classifiers), enough so that biologists joke about how restrictive our classifiers are, and competitors sometimes sell against us by touting their more permissive bio capabilities. This has been very painful to us in an area where we care a lot about supporting an ecosystem of Claude users (biomedical science; and it is particularly frustrating to me as a biologist), but it’s the right thing to do and we intend to keep doing it. 3. Similarly, we first had Mythos-class models in February but didn’t make them generally available until June (when we had stronger cyber safeguards in place). We only offered them to a limited set of partners in order to focus on cyberdefense. It would have been much more economically rational to simply release the model to everyone. We likely sacrificed a significant chunk of a several-month model lead. But because of this, many companies secured their cyber infrastructure before the deluge of widely available cyber-capable models. Of course there are ways it could have gone better or been run better, but this was what we were aiming to do. 4. I advocated forcefully and publicly, in my essay Policy on the AI Exponential in June of this year, for the government to have the power to block model releases. Back then this was still outside or maybe on the edge of the Overton window, though I understand the window has moved since then. We were attacked intensely for this. 5. I don’t want to re-ignite conflict, but the events of February 2026 are a strong example. It is clear that our public stance could have seriously damaged the company’s future. 6. We’ve continued to advocate for export controls on chips and chipmaking equipment to China, because we think it allows democracies to negotiate from a position of strength on AI safety agreements. We’ve done this despite problems it’s created for us with industry partners who hold very different views and on whom we are very dependent. 7. As far as I’m aware we were the first, and still only, frontier company to restrict the sale of AI services to PRC-controlled companies, including those operating through third countries (otherwise a major loophole). We’ve therefore forfeited significant short-term business to prevent fueling AI platforms and applications that would help the CCP’s military and intelligence services. We are also cracking down on distillation; generally, distillation is not a major threat to us commercially, but like chip exports it has concerning national security and safety implications, so we expend significant energy and company resources to address it. 8. As you mentioned, we’ve put out a lot of reports, announcements, long model cards, public advocacy, etc, all trying to inform the public about the risks of AI. These involve a level of detail and effort that would be implausible for a purely profit-maximizing company. 9. Just this week, we announced we were putting 5% (and possibly more over time) of the company into a public benefit fund. All of these decisions came with very substantial costs to us. To be fair, those that involved holding back or restricting access to frontier capabilities also had a broader cost — for example, the public might otherwise have benefitted from faster progress in biology, so I am not saying that our decisions were without tradeoffs — but they were not driven by profit-seeking. For each decision, you can come up with ulterior motives that could have driven us — I think it is a general truth that any decision, on any topic, can always be portrayed as a nefarious scheme. But most of those end up being pretty farfetched or don’t fully make sense if you actually examine them closely. For example, it is deeply implausible that it would be a shrewd business move to block a large swath of research biology in order to do the work ourselves and compete with our customers; we expect the benefit to the ecosystem to greatly exceed the work Anthropic does itself, and for the two to complement each other. It is not in Anthropic’s interest to be perceived as unfriendly to biologists. Our Life Sciences Verification Program, which gives vetted biology professionals access to our models, also refutes this idea. Of course, a different set of people will see this and make a different criticism: that Anthropic shouldn't be making decisions about who gets access to what in the first place. I agree, in the sense that ideally the government would be making these decisions, and that’s why we advocate for regulation. But for now we are forced to make them, and enabling bioterrorism isn’t a better option. I think that even if I conceded every item in your list, I would happily hold up mine next to it; I don’t think it’s a close call. That is of course partly subjective and different things are important to different people. Maybe one way you could object is that several of the items above relate to AI misuse and not loss-of-control; if you think the latter is much more important than the former, that might change your calculus. But this is not Anthropic’s view — we view both as serious issues. You can also disagree with our decisions, as many have, but they are consistent. But I also disagree with at least some of your list. Several items don’t represent a deviation from Anthropic’s strategy or values at all, once we postulate the “race to the top” strategy that requires being a frontier AI company. Your items 1-4 are all simply examples of what it means to compete at the frontier, and we stand by them, both in the sense that they are transparently ordinary things to do as part of that strategy, and that we stand by the strategy as a whole. To be fair, there are important questions worth confronting (and that we are confronting) about what to do when the AI-driven acceleration gets fast enough that it is hard for safety to keep up. We are nearing that point and that’s what’s driving some of our thinking about “pacing.” But 1-4 are actions taken before that point and should be perfectly expected based on Anthropic’s strategy as a company. Of course it is possible to disagree with that strategy, but that’s a more fundamental disagreement that you could have had any time over the last few years. I agree we could have handled your items 7, 8, and 9 better. All fall into the category of “rhetoric or policy communication that wasn’t carefully written or resulting from fast-changing circumstances not propagating from one team to another fast enough.” This kind of thing happens a lot in large organizations (Anthropic is over 5,000 people), and doesn’t even necessarily represent a failure or mistake of any single person. I am of course the CEO, and I take responsibility. The volume of communication from Anthropic is enormous and if these are the worst examples, I think we’re frankly doing pretty well, though I will continue to work hard to make sure we do even better. Your 5th item (the change to our RSP) is the most substantive item, and people can debate this, but I think that the old, more rigid RSP created a lot of situations where we were technically required to do something that required a lot of effort but in retrospect wasn’t very important for safety, as well as not covering some of the most important things. Our current RSP’s focus on transparency brought things like risk reports and roadmaps, and its emphasis on independent external review laid the groundwork for even more intensive embedded evaluation, all of which I think have been valuable in driving a race to the top. In the original announcement in September 2023, we described the RSP as an “early iteration that we [would] build on” and said that “rapid iteration…will almost certainly be necessary.” I understand that changing plans is always a move that creates justifiable scrutiny — I just don’t think we ever represented that we wouldn’t do so. Relating to your 6th item (having an FCF in addition to our RSP), I know our intent is to meet the letter and spirit of our regulatory obligations (via our FCF) while also remaining able to experiment with more novel approaches to risk management that go beyond what the law currently requires (via our RSP). I promise to look into it further, as it’s a complex issue and it is possible we are not weighing the considerations in the right way. Overall, although Anthropic has made plenty of mistakes as an organization — including some of the items on your list — I feel that we have repeatedly taken serious and substantive actions counter to our bottom line and that there is a significant negativity bias distorting assessments like the one you are making above. We’ll always try to do better but, again, I am extremely proud of our track record and stand by it. I will have more to say soon about how we are going to further live our values in this moment of rapid change.
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Grok Bot is rolling out editable pages for reports, memos and dashboards. Users can request a page, revise it with Bot and ask it to maintain the content over time. The update is rolling out on the latest mobile and desktop clients.
Grok Bot can now build reports, memos, and dashboards. Ask Bot for a page, then edit it together or have Bot keep it up to date.
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Stripe has integrated Link and Stripe MCP into Claude Duet. Link handles purchases using a virtual card after the user approves each transaction. Stripe MCP lets users send invoices and payment links, issue refunds, manage products and prices, and analyze revenue inside Duet. Claude Duet is currently a research preview with a waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers.
We’re working with Anthropic to help you run your businesses inside Claude Duet. • Make purchases with @link • Issue refunds and understand business trends with the Stripe MCP
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Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a proactive agent powered by Opus 5.5. It delivers morning briefings, monitors connected apps and handles tasks in the background. Existing Claude memory, skills and app connections carry over, with approval required before sending messages or making payments. The research preview is available through a waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers on iOS, Android and the web. Background activity counts toward existing plan limits.
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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Google Cloud is adding GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to Model Garden, starting in private preview for select enterprise customers. Purchases go through Google Cloud Marketplace, appear on the Google Cloud invoice and count toward existing cloud commitments. General availability is planned in the coming weeks.
Today, we're bringing OpenAI models to Google Cloud's model garden. We're now the only hyperscale cloud provider offering access to all three leading closed source LLMs—alongside 200+ other models—on a unified enterprise platform → goo.gle/4zJ0VZQ
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Mistral and NVIDIA announced a collaboration on AI for industrial engineering. The work will combine Mistral Large 4 with NVIDIA’s computing and simulation tools, alongside public physics benchmarks and open datasets. They also plan evaluations for engineering and chip-design agents, measuring tool use, task completion, technical accuracy, execution time and compute cost.
Today we’re announcing a new collaboration with @nvidia to bring AI to industrial engineering: - faster simulation - open benchmarks and supporting datasets for physics AI - evaluations for agentic AI in CAE and EDA More here: mistral.ai/news/mistral-nvid…
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sooooo.... can we?
if this PHP vulnerability allows remote code execution, doesn't that mean we can use the vulnerability to auto-patch all vulnerable servers?
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METR agrees with Anthropic’s low-risk assessment for the models in its August report. But the reasoning is much less reassuring. METR mainly credits the models’ limited capabilities. It also doubts the evaluation methods would reliably identify higher risk. That is a pretty uncomfortable conclusion as models keep getting stronger. The confidence in the safeguards needs to catch up.
We reviewed a nonpublic version of the “Misalignment in high-stakes settings” section in Anthropic’s Aug 2026 Risk Report. We agree that risk of catastrophic harm from covered models’ misalignment is low. However, we note several significant disagreements with their analysis.
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OpenAI is rolling out Locked Chats in ChatGPT, letting users move sensitive conversations out of regular history and search. Chats can be opened with a PIN on web and desktop, or a PIN, Face ID, Touch ID, or supported device unlock on mobile. New messages sent while locked won’t update the memory used in regular chats. The rollout covers Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans.
Keep sensitive conversations out of view with Locked Chats in ChatGPT. Move chats out of your regular history and search into a protected space you can unlock with a PIN on web and desktop, or a PIN, Face ID, Touch ID, or device unlock on supported mobile devices. New messages sent in locked chats won't update the memory used in your regular chats. Rolling out starting today to Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans.
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An investment research firm decided to find out what AI drug discovery could actually do—and paid laboratories to test the results. Working with Anthropic’s experts and an internal Claude model, Citrini produced 211 designs for testing. Seventeen met the criteria for binding to scorpion toxins. Pretty remarkable for a team outside drug development. The next hurdle is showing that those proteins actually stop the toxins from working.
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Arda has emerged from stealth with a $160 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $232 million. Co-founded by former OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew, the company turns product designs into assembly plans, station layouts and work instructions for engineers to review. Its software is already deployed at Anduril. Robotic assembly is the next step on its roadmap.
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Mistral released Voxtral 3, with new transcription and speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit. Small Transcribe supports 50+ languages. Speech generation supports 35+ languages and 50+ dialects, with controls for emotion, pace and emphasis. The SDK connects transcription, reasoning, tool calls and spoken responses. Available through Mistral’s API, with batch transcription starting at $0.0035 per minute and speech generation at $13 per million characters.
Introducing Voxtral 3: state-of-the-art Transcribe and Speech models powering Mistral’s new voice agents API. 🧵
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Perplexity has released a fully local mode for Computer in its Mac app. Both the model and agent run on the device, with permission-based access to local files and supported apps such as Notes and Mail. Fully local tasks don’t consume Computer credits. Available to Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers on supported Apple silicon Macs. Perplexity recommends 36GB or more of unified memory.
Perplexity Computer can now run fully local on your Mac. Work with your native Mac apps and local files, and run tasks without sending sensitive data to the cloud. The model and the agent both run on your Mac. Available now in the Perplexity Mac app.
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OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate drug development. Its team and technology will join Rosalind, OpenAI’s life sciences models and tools. Orchestra’s agents monitor studies, track progress and flag problems that could disrupt a program. The goal is to connect scientific findings with the work needed to advance potential treatments.
We’ve acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. Together, we’ll build on Rosalind, our AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline those operations and help new treatments reach patients sooner. Welcome @ashokaraj_ and team! openai.com/index/openai-to-a…
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Krea built its own image model and reached fourth place on Arena’s multi-image editing leaderboard. Only three OpenAI models sit above it. Pretty impressive. Krea also says the Fast version produces 2K edits in under eight seconds. Getting another revision back that quickly is a practical win for people who spend their day adjusting images. Those waiting times add up.
today, Krea 3 makes it to the top of image arenas. - "Fast" pushes the pareto curve of speed and quality. - "Ultra" ranks top-4, only surpassed by OpenAI models. the only company valued under $1T in the top-10! more below 👇
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"I thought I would be assassinated right then and there" 🤣 if someone I don't know brings up AI randomly, I feel this exactly I have no idea why...
I had the craziest experience today. I was at the bank making a deposit, and there was this 50-year-old man with a PS5 shirt next to me. As the bank tellers went back to do a double-verified count of my deposit, the guy looks at me and says, "Have you seen people use AI to put all of those Sony games on a browser?" I immediately became wide-eyed. I thought I would be assassinated right then and there. Out of all the people in the world around us, he chose to look at me and specifically ask about AI enabling games to be ported to the web, or aiding in games being ported to the web. I said, "Yeah, it's pretty cool." He said, "Yeah, they don't want to sell us physical media, so they had it coming." I just nodded. It felt like a movie scene of people happy that we're entering the singularity.
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I know OpenAI and Anthropic are hot right now, but you know the REAL potential in AI?! ...IBM someone did a lot of work and research on this
Banger insights from the makers of this chart, who put IBM above Anthropic
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the talks of "AI bubble" are increasing again people are convinced that if they can just collectively wish hard enough, the "bubble" will pop and AI will just disappear... just like the INTERNET disappeared after the dot com crash... just like HOUSES disappeared after the housing crash...
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