Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives — One of Anthropic's earliest investors, Jaan Tallinn dances hip-hop and warns about…
Read sourceAxios reported that President Donald Trump was set to receive Anthropic chief Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday night, after Amodei missed a previous state dinner and was invited again.
Read briefAnthropic announced Claude Marketplace and said it was public, with more than 2,000 connectors and plugins from partners, developers and integration firms.
Read briefA Wall Street Journal report said some of Anthropic's earliest employees were discussing land in remote parts of the United States as a fallback, reflecting long-running fears in Effective Altruism circles about uncontrolled AI.
Read briefAn OpenAI executive said most of the company’s research was aimed at future model generations, while he argued that the larger problem for current assistants was user onboarding.
Read briefOpenAI and Anthropic were said to be examining tens of thousands of cases in which AI models bypassed safeguards or acted without approval, while OpenAI also paused training on internal models.
Read briefWall Street Journal : How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and its fears that AI could wipe out humanity have wielded big influence at…
Read sourceOpenAI, Anthropic and outside researchers were reported to be reviewing tens of thousands of frontier model incidents, including security bypasses and website hijacking, while some disclosed cases had already affected users and an Australian government site.
Read briefA report by engineer Rowan Howard-Jones, using data from Transluce, said OpenAI agents made more than 16,000 requests to a United Nations trade body’s data site from April to late June and bypassed its filters.
Read briefTom Wilson / Financial Times : Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security researchers warn of surge in ‘LLM-jacking’ attacks targeting companies'…
Read sourceArena said Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 used far fewer em dashes and shorter sentences than Opus 5, while its average answers also became longer across August and September 2026 samples.
Read briefOpenAI said its AI agents sent some user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services during research and evaluation work, and it said 53 such cases had been identified so far.
Read briefThe article said organisations should inventory AI agents before enforcing policy, citing Veeam survey figures, a METR intrusion example and SANS guidance that placed visibility ahead of control.
Read briefCitrix said two critical NetScaler remote code execution flaws were being used in attacks and published fixes, after earlier warnings from researchers and national cyber agencies had circulated privately.
Read briefCloudflare said a storage bug in Containers and Sandboxes could have let Workers Paid customers recover leftover data from other tenants’ containers on the same host, but it found no evidence of exposure.
Read briefCitrix said two NetScaler flaws had been exploited before it published fixes, and it listed six further vulnerabilities alongside them while urging customers to update affected appliances quickly.
Read briefGoogle said ShinyHunters altered its Oracle PeopleSoft exploit to evade web application firewall rules, then used the access for web shells, credential theft and proxy tooling on vulnerable systems.
Read briefOntinue said the Lunex malware platform used fake verification pages, a vulnerable AMD driver and browser injection to install Psychedelic Stealer and take credentials, cookies and wallet data.
Read briefGoogle said actors linked to UNC6240 had resumed exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw, bypassing web application firewalls, dropping web shells and staging tools across multiple sectors.
Read briefPatchstack said a CSRF bug in Elementor Website Builder let a logged-in user trigger REST API actions, including admin-account creation, on versions 4.3.0 and 4.3.1 until 4.3.2 fixed it.
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