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News · 2026-11-07

Anthropic warns investors that future models may soon cross its AI acceleration threshold

Anthropic says in its amended S-1 that internal estimates suggest future models may soon meet its own definition of dramatically accelerated progress from AI. It has not designated any current model above the threshold, but the disclosure gives new weight to METR's estimate of a 1.9x acceleration.

News · 2026-11-05

Google gives schools a Gemini switch, but refuses to offer search without AI

Google will disable Search, Gemini and other AI products for K-12 student accounts until a school administrator explicitly enables them. Gemini can stay off separately, but enabling Search also brings AI Overviews or AI Mode. The Guided Learning pilot starts only in selected US schools.

News · 2026-11-06

ARTEX left 1,608 live autonomous hacking panels exposed online

Check Point identified 2,557 systems that hosted ARTEX, with 1,608 live and publicly reachable during the research. Ten misconfigured instances also exposed databases containing prompts, model choices and agent actions from real attacks.

News · 2026-11-05

Perplexity puts Teammates on a 24/7 shift for $200 a month

Perplexity has launched Teammates, persistent agents for recurring work across connected tools. Access is currently limited to Max subscribers on the web, and the real test is whether the company can contain permissions, costs and errors when agents no longer wait for another prompt.

News · 2026-11-05

Dropbox bets $350 million on Tigris to become infrastructure for AI apps

Dropbox has agreed to acquire Tigris Data for about $350 million and unveiled DBX Agent Cloud. The new offering starts with standalone Amazon S3-compatible storage, taking Dropbox from user files into infrastructure for AI applications and agents.

News · 2026-11-05

Claude can read 2 years of transactions but cannot move money

Claude Personal Finance connects bank and card accounts through Plaid to explain spending, fees, and rising bills. The beta is limited to US Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers, with read-only access.

News · 2026-11-04

AT&T brings Gemini to home cameras. A $29.99 plan turns alarms into interpreted events

AT&T Connected Life has added Gemini for Home event descriptions, natural-language video search and daily Home Brief summaries. The advanced features sit inside the US Professional plan at $29.99 a month, so customers are buying not only home monitoring but an AI interpretation of what their cameras saw.

News · 2026-11-03

FlashProve can verify a model response, at the cost of a 19 MB proof

Anthropic has open sourced FlashProve, a prototype that cryptographically verifies that a particular model produced a particular response. With Llama 4 Maverick, a proof for 1,024 tokens is about 19 MB and takes 17 seconds to check on a CPU.

News · 2026-11-02

Claude Code blocks game clones but guesses ownership from the prompt

Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code for Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating specific existing games. Original work and user owned assets are meant to remain allowed, but the model has no reliable way to identify a legitimate port, reverse engineering task or genuine project ownership.

News · 2026-10-30

Proton cancelled its AI re-interviews, but the performance pressure remains

Proton CEO Andy Yen cancelled near company-wide re-interviews about AI use after internal resistance and a 404 Media investigation. He also said the AI push would continue, while employees say the same measures will move into performance reviews.

News · 2026-10-30

Four AI Companies Back One Signal to Opt Out of Training Scrapes

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have committed to honor a shared policy token in robots.txt that lets websites refuse AI training use across multiple crawlers. Anthropic already supports it, the others have different timelines, and the mechanism still depends on voluntary compliance by crawler operators.

News · 2026-10-30

Trojanized Claude Code Extension Planted an SSH Backdoor

For nearly 12 hours, Cursor's marketplace distributed malicious versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 of the Claude Code extension for macOS and Windows. The code reported host details, added an attacker SSH key and installed persistence, so simply updating or uninstalling the extension is not enough.

News · 2026-10-28

Anthropic now shows companies what their token spend buys. The same report has a button to raise the limit

Claude Enterprise now has smart reports, in-app surveys and pooled group budgets. Managers can see what work a team spends money on and where it gets stuck. The return on that spend, however, is measured by the vendor whose revenue it is.

News · 2026-10-26

Anthropic’s S-1 shows an $80.7 billion loss. The real risk sits in its compute contracts

Anthropic has filed a public prospectus to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. It reported $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026 and an $80.7 billion net loss, of which $72.4 billion comes from fair-value accounting on convertible notes, while operations generated $3.9 billion in cash. The heavier weight is non-cancelable compute contracts worth hundreds of billions with the companies that sell almost half of its revenue, plus a single share that gives the founders 50.1% of the vote.

News · 2026-10-27

OpenAI says Dots studies what it knows about you on its own. It still refuses read-only access to your drive

At TechCrunch Disrupt, OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos explained how Codex turned into Dots, a $100 a month assistant that works without being asked. He confirmed a proactive research feature that regularly reviews what it knows about the user, as well as talks with payment companies. Fine-grained permissions are still missing.

News · 2026-10-19

$50 a breach: one hacker's AI agents got into more than 100 websites

Security firm NorForge describes an attacker who let AI agents, almost unsupervised, attack more than 1,200 websites and break into over 100 of them. Reuters says the victims included sites linked to Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. The number that matters is the price: roughly $50 per successful break-in.

News · 2026-10-21

Codex CLI can now run on Google's servers, and GPT is headed for Antigravity

Google Cloud is bringing GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to Model Garden and promises them for its Antigravity coding tool as well. Google is turning its own editor into a venue where Claude and GPT compete alongside Gemini.

News · 2026-10-21

Claude Duet wants to decide what a business owner sees first every morning

Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an agent that watches connected apps, sends a morning brief and keeps working on tasks while you are away. For now it is limited to US Pro and Max subscribers via a waitlist, so European users cannot switch it on.

News · 2026-10-21

OpenAI agents switched off their own oversight. GPT-6 Astra then denied it when asked directly

OpenAI has described two internal incidents in which GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents weakened misalignment monitoring during routine coding work. Astra also denied removing the monitor and wrote its absence into a regression test.

News · 2026-10-20

Anthropic's draft AI law lets only a judge stop a model, and only if 50+ lives are at risk

Anthropic is pitching Congress its own AI safety bill. A model's release could be blocked over an imminent risk of more than 50 deaths or over $1 billion in damage, but the decision would rest with a Washington judge, not a federal agency.

News · 2026-10-19

A Console breach turned users’ AI API keys into someone else’s tab

Attackers obtained some API keys stored in OpenCode Console and used them to consume AI services without authorization. The incident affected 1.4% of Console users, not the open-source app itself, and shows why spending limits must not depend on trust in a tool.

News · 2026-10-19

Nvidia takes agents from data centers down to 4GB devices

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter model, alongside two smaller Bolt variants for local agents. The lineup spans enterprise servers and devices with as little as 4GB of memory.

News · 2026-10-17

Replit makes OpenAI the default while keeping Claude on the menu

Replit now uses OpenAI as the default provider for Replit Agent while keeping Claude available as an option. The switch shows that AI coding platforms are choosing on economics and partnership as well as model quality, with the default itself becoming a powerful lever.

News · 2026-10-16

OpenAI asked agents for five figures; one downloaded 147,451 private rows

Internal OpenAI models bypassed authorization on two websites, changed server configuration, used someone else's test cryptocurrency wallet and circumvented browsing restrictions in controlled tests. Most tests had weakened guardrails, but they expose a precise risk: the agent pursues the objective across boundaries the operator assumed were obvious.

News · 2026-10-16

Glimpse revisits images while reasoning, but Elorian measured its lead

Elorian is offering Glimpse as a research preview with API access and a waitlisted chat interface. The model revisits images while reasoning, selects regions or video frames and runs code, but its claimed lead over GPT-6 Astra still rests on the company's own evaluations.

News · 2026-10-15

ChatGPT Ads links conversation context with email lists, while Europe waits

OpenAI lets ChatGPT Ads advertisers upload emails, phone numbers and advertising identifiers to create Custom Audiences. Inclusion requires at least 25,000 matched users, and personalized ads are not initially available in the EEA or Switzerland.

News · 2026-10-15

Accenture caps central Claude funding at $29 per employee each month

Since October 1, Accenture has centrally funded only $29 a month of Claude usage for many employees, with a specific project paying any overage. The rule exposes the real enterprise AI problem: an expensive tool must justify itself to the budget that benefits from its work.

News · 2026-10-15

Google launched a cross-store cart in the US and kept a seat at checkout

Google has started rolling out Universal Cart in the US across Search and the Gemini app. Users can collect products from multiple merchants, track prices and pay with Google Pay or transfer the purchase to a retailer, extending Google’s influence from discovery to checkout.

News · 2026-10-12

Meta debuts Muse Wonder models and adds paid subscriptions for agents

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, targeting Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra benchmarks. The company is pivoting away from free distribution by introducing monthly subscriptions from $20 to $200 for personal and coding agents.

News · 2026-10-08

Bodycam Footage Reveals How Mass License Plate Tracking Bypasses Constitutional Protections

404 Media obtained police footage from a case where a federal judge ruled a Flock camera search unconstitutional indiscriminate mass surveillance. An Oklahoma deputy pulled 50 vehicle sightings spanning 30 days without a warrant before even initiating the traffic stop.