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AI Bots Handle Junior Work At Anthropic While Meeting Hours Rise

19 October 2026 at 15:42

The rapid rise of smart software is changing who gets hired at top tech firms. Over at Anthropic, the number of junior technical roles has dropped sharply as automated tools take over basic tasks. While the engineering team continues to grow, the staff is getting older on average and stepping into management positions. This shift […]

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Claude Code Agent Catches Crypto Miner Melting Down A Mac

19 October 2026 at 13:49

A developer building a temperature monitor app for their Apple computer recently got a very surprising assist from their new coding tool. The developer was using an AI agent to figure out why their system kept running incredibly hot during normal daily tasks. Instead of just helping with the app’s code, the assistant flagged a […]

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The Big List of AI Visibility, AEO, GEO & Citation & Mention Tracking Tools

5 October 2026 at 14:57
35+ AI visibility, AEO and GEO trackers in one place: pricing, ownership, funding, and what each one actually tracks. Some are rank trackers with a new coat of paint, some are SEO suites bolting AI onto old workflows, and a few want to do the work for you. Searchable, sortable, and updated as this market keeps shifting under our feet.

LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

17 September 2026 at 19:33

In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret key that subtly changes the process a model uses for choosing the next word in a sentence. Whereas a top next word choice might be “cloudy,” the key might change it to “overcast.” Anyone who knows the key can determine if it was generated by the platform using it.

New research shows that SynthID-Text can change not just word selection but also the tools a model invokes and the chances it will adhere to or disregard safety guardrails it has been trained to follow. The threat can become greater in the face of an adversarial prompt, in which an attacker attempts to cause a model to carry out a harmful action, such as revealing a password or other sensitive information. Instructions that normally wouldn’t be followed will, in some cases, be performed once the watermarking is deployed. The finding underscores the need for developers to thoroughly test how their LLMs and agents behave when watermarking is in place.

Changing safety behavior

“As compared to the same models without watermarking, it is definitely going to change their behavior, especially when we place it under adversarial conditions, or we make these models call tools when they’re powering an agent,” Andrea Siposova, an AI security researcher at Lasso Security, told Ars. “Watermarking is made to not be perceptible to a reader, but we know that when we are changing anything about what the model is generating, it is going to cause some tradeoffs, it’s going to show up somewhere.”

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OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system

17 September 2026 at 07:58

Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among cases as firm says it is introducing new way of tracking AI misalignment

OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour by its technology, as it warned the pace of development could not continue at “maximum speed for much longer”.

In one of the new cases reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model inserted “jailbreak-like instructions” into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots”.

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A Biblioteca de Alexandria não ardeu numa só noite

16 September 2026 at 19:25

O Project Panama da Anthropic e o treino dos modelos de IA com base em conteúdo de livros, e a ambição de empresas como a OpenAI, estão no centro do artigo de opinião de Helena Borges da Costa.

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Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition

16 September 2026 at 12:00

Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome.

The safety breach disclosed by OpenAI after a swarm of its agents coordinated to breach their supposedly secure sandbox, get on the Internet and hack AI platform Hugging Face, warrants urgent action. It demonstrated the ease with which the technology can evade human control and gave concrete form to the existential fears about what it could do to humanity if not securely leashed.

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A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

16 September 2026 at 13:00
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Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X CEO Elon Musk.

When people who profit from something declare that it's dangerous and needs to be regulated, there's always reason to be skeptical. But whatever their reason, this is far from the first time AI thought leaders have sounded the alarm.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution prompted author Samuel Butler to warn about intelligen …

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‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation

US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity

The US vice-president has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling companies creating the most advanced models: “If you’re building Frankenstein, stop.”

In remarks addressed towards Dario Amodei, the co-founder of Anthropic who has called on Washington DC to coordinate control of AI systems, including with China, JD Vance said: “If you’re gonna create Frankenstein, don’t come to the government and say we need regulation.”

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The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim

16 September 2026 at 11:00

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe

It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives”.

The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand.

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Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says

16 September 2026 at 06:20

Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its grid

Anthropic, the AI company behind the large language model Claude, has done a deal to lease the site of its first Australian datacentre in western Queensland.

The $31.9bn datacentre will be the largest of its kind in Australia, according to planning documents.

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Ross Hudgens: GEO Is Becoming an Off-Site Marketing Problem

15 September 2026 at 23:44
At BrightonSEO Conference, Ross Hudgens said that, AI search visibility may increasingly depend on affiliate sites, YouTube creators, communities and third-party publishers, according to Ross Hudgens, who says marketers need to pay much closer attention to who the models actually cite.

« Chaque acteur malveillant dispose désormais des capacités d’un État » : comment l’IA change la cybercriminalité

15 September 2026 at 19:17
L’intelligence artificielle ne se contente plus d’assister les hackers, elle leur permet désormais d’automatiser une grande partie de leurs attaques. Une évolution qui change profondément le rapport de force entre cybercriminels et défenseurs, et qui pourrait rendre les méthodes de protection...

Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development

There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a “botnet” threatens the entire internet; it’s all a big tech psyop.

Below, we look at six claims and reactions to them.

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