What you need to know
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Goodfire says its cyber monitors for open models beat an AI judge at 50x lower cost
Cheap enough to run on every token, the probes can stop an agent before it touches a tool.
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Fired OpenAI safety researchers say colleagues are now afraid to speak up
Their letter asks OpenAI to keep its models readable and to hold Altman to his promise of outside auditors.
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Anthropic offers Claude and on-site engineers to power grid defenders, plus free open-source bug scans
The open-source scanner's bug reports go out with no human reading them first, and Anthropic expects most to be right.
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Anthropic's new usage policy bans sustained, needless abuse of Claude from November 12
Swearing at a broken script doesn't count, and the main penalty is one Claude could already hand out.
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Fed officials said the AI buildout was adding to inflation when they raised rates in September
For goods prices, the minutes credit AI where they used to credit tariffs, and some officials worry demand will outrun supply.
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Photo: NYC Mayor's Office, CC BY 4.0Anthropic's ban on abusing Claude
- Oct 14Bernie Sanders answers Musk's worry about AI feeling pain: humans first
- Oct 11Musk says Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude is the right move
- Oct 8Anthropic's new usage policy bans sustained, needless abuse of Claude from November 12
ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up
- Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
- Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
- Oct 8CrowdStrike says an attacker likely used the ARTEX AI agent against South Korean banks
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In brief2
AnthropicBuilding on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Anthropic committed $150 million over three years to the federal Genesis Mission on October 8, 2026, putting Claude into several hundred research projects at agencies including the Department of Energy, NASA and NIH. anthropic.com →
OpenAIDisrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI said on October 8, 2026 that it disrupted two influence operations, one from Russia and one from Iran, that used its models to run fake journalists and a fake think tank. openai.com →
From the labs' own feeds15
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0.162.0Codex CLI+3 pre2.1.295Claude Code3.26.1OpenAI Python SDK