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An Accenture contractor connected a sensitive Pentagon system to their personal Claude Code account. The AI agent then ran on a Defense Department network for two months, Vittoria Elliott reported for WIRED on Thursday 29 October, citing sources.
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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI training with a single rule. Today, a site that wants to say no has to write separate rules for each company’s crawler.
Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model blocking attempts at videogame recreation — users also claim their non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are block
Your Microsoft 365 Family plan will transition to a new (smaller) shared storage model when you renew it.
Almost 40% of British singles have used AI for romantic advice, from writing messages to assessing potential partners After Sam’s ex joked that her sister found him ugly, he turned to AI. Google Gemini had a look at the photo and politely disagreed.
The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.
Expensive memory forces former Microsoft engineer to make his own — Dave Plummer makes PDP-11 RAM from scratch
Samsung hosted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday. Two days earlier, a podcast went out in which Sam Altman said it is “quite terrible” for the world’s limited DRAM to sit in people’s own computers. DRAM is the memory chip Samsung makes.
OpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10bn, to about $20bn. The Financial Times reported the cut on Friday 30 October, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Some investors reduced their commitments as AI stocks sold off, according to the report.
A tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday 29 October. It reached up to 5,000 users. The malicious versions tried to plant an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, Cursor said in a security notice.
Apple wants people to love its products without having to think about whether AI made them work, chief executive John Ternus told Steven Levy for WIRED. The interview was published on Friday 30 October. Levy spoke to Ternus at Apple’s Los Angeles launch of the touchscreen MacBook Pro this week.
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