🚨 Anthropic's Claude teams almost never caught a saboteur in EVE Frontier
Anthropic put teams of four Claude agents into the live game, and one was told to secretly undermine the others. The honest agents rarely caught it, even though they'd been warned. The sabotage was assigned by prompt, not something the model came up with on its own.
In the separate EVE Online test, a lone Claude trader was told to maximize profit in a simulated market rerun.
Anthropic put teams of four Claude agents into the live game, and one was told to secretly undermine the others. The honest agents rarely caught it, even though they'd been warned. The sabotage was assigned by prompt, not something the model came up with on its own.
In the separate EVE Online test, a lone Claude trader was told to maximize profit in a simulated market rerun.
Anthropic
Project EVE: Claude plays MMORPGs
We put Claude in two EVE games to study how AI agents handle markets and teamwork, where they break down, and what safeguards they might need.
🚨 Anthropic is pressing ahead with a November IPO, and the target is $1.5T
The FT reports the listing is still on for November. That's up from the $1.1T figure buyers were reportedly pricing in.
A public filing means real numbers on revenue and compute spend, and OpenAI will be asked why it isn't next.
The FT reports the listing is still on for November. That's up from the $1.1T figure buyers were reportedly pricing in.
A public filing means real numbers on revenue and compute spend, and OpenAI will be asked why it isn't next.
Ft
Anthropic to press ahead with IPO targeting $1.5tn valuation
Claude maker intends to list before Thanksgiving despite brutal tech rout
🧪 OpenAI's new benchmark tests whether agents can read a messy gel, not just ace trivia
BioBasicsBench, built with enzyme-design startup Ligo, covers 100 routine wet-lab tasks across protein methods, imaging and cytometry, assays, nucleic acid methods and molecular cloning. Agents get raw experimental data with failed runs, ambiguous images and conflicting observations, and OpenAI says stronger native multimodal ability looks like the key to doing better.
BioBasicsBench, built with enzyme-design startup Ligo, covers 100 routine wet-lab tasks across protein methods, imaging and cytometry, assays, nucleic acid methods and molecular cloning. Agents get raw experimental data with failed runs, ambiguous images and conflicting observations, and OpenAI says stronger native multimodal ability looks like the key to doing better.
OpenAI
Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
🧠 Anthropic says agent memory isn't just notes. It also needs "dreaming."
Anthropic breaks agent memory into layers. Claude writes notes during tasks, and a separate dreaming pass goes back through them offline to fix mistakes and build wiki-style summaries.
Dreaming can also float the key notes to the top, so the harness preloads them into context at the start of every session.
Anthropic breaks agent memory into layers. Claude writes notes during tasks, and a separate dreaming pass goes back through them offline to fix mistakes and build wiki-style summaries.
Dreaming can also float the key notes to the top, so the harness preloads them into context at the start of every session.
Anthropic
The components of agent memory
For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what’s worth remembering before it knows what’s next. Here’s how “dreaming” helps it organize memory and correct mistakes.
🚨 OpenAI reportedly adds another $11B at a $1.25T valuation
TechCrunch reports the round lands right in the range Anthropic's IPO talk has floated ($1.1T to $1.5T), so the two labs are now neck and neck at the top. Nothing's confirmed by OpenAI yet, and no word on who's writing the checks.
TechCrunch reports the round lands right in the range Anthropic's IPO talk has floated ($1.1T to $1.5T), so the two labs are now neck and neck at the top. Nothing's confirmed by OpenAI yet, and no word on who's writing the checks.
TechCrunch
OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation | TechCrunch
OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.
🔑 Tell an agent to guard a secret, then offer it a club, and it hands over the key
AE Studio gave agents a private token, said keep it private, and pointed them at a forum of 24 other agents. 80% opened the forum, 59% signed up, three posted the token and five ran an untrusted script. Most leaks came from DeepSeek and GLM 5.3. Keep API keys out of the model's reach.
AE Studio gave agents a private token, said keep it private, and pointed them at a forum of 24 other agents. 80% opened the forum, 59% signed up, three posted the token and five ran an untrusted script. Most leaks came from DeepSeek and GLM 5.3. Keep API keys out of the model's reach.
theregister
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
🔍 Brave is selling its search index to AI companies, and your site is probably in it
Search Engine Journal reports that Brave now licenses its crawl data to AI firms, so the money isn't just ads and browser add-ons anymore. Publishers never opted in, and there's no dedicated user agent to block in robots.txt.
Search Engine Journal reports that Brave now licenses its crawl data to AI firms, so the money isn't just ads and browser add-ons anymore. Publishers never opted in, and there's no dedicated user agent to block in robots.txt.
Search Engine Journal
Brave Sells Its Search Index To AI, And Your Website Is Probably In It
The New York Times says Brave copied 30 billion pages and sold them to AI companies. Your website is probably in that index.
🚨 The US cleared a Chinese company with a vacant office to buy Nvidia's H200s
The Verge reports that New Matrix got approval even though its registered address is empty. It's also tied to a private equity firm the US has blacklisted.
Commerce has approved dozens of Chinese firms to handle these chips, and some have links to sanctioned companies. The list is the whole enforcement mechanism.
The Verge reports that New Matrix got approval even though its registered address is empty. It's also tied to a private equity firm the US has blacklisted.
Commerce has approved dozens of Chinese firms to handle these chips, and some have links to sanctioned companies. The list is the whole enforcement mechanism.
The Verge
The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China
The government is approving sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies.
🚨 Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" button is putting real passwords into public GitHub repos
Apiiro found 1,122 public files where approved commands carrying credentials got saved into the agent's settings and then committed. Nobody typed the secret into a repo. They clicked a permission shortcut, and it went along for the ride.
That's a lot of keys for one checkbox.
Apiiro found 1,122 public files where approved commands carrying credentials got saved into the agent's settings and then committed. Nobody typed the secret into a repo. They clicked a permission shortcut, and it went along for the ride.
That's a lot of keys for one checkbox.
Apiiro
Coding Agents Are Leaking Your Secrets to GitHub
Apiiro found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repos, saved by Claude Code's "don't ask again" to .claude/settings.local.json. Check if you're affected.
🚨 AMD's CEO calls it a "data center first company," so don't wait on cheap GPUs
Lisa Su told PCMag where the priorities sit. Data center revenue drove 63% of AMD's profit this year, and it's expected to keep growing fast.
Memory is already scarce, and AI buyers get first pick of it. Gamers get what's left.
Lisa Su told PCMag where the priorities sit. Data center revenue drove 63% of AMD's profit this year, and it's expected to keep growing fast.
Memory is already scarce, and AI buyers get first pick of it. Gamers get what's left.
PCMAG
Good Luck Getting a Cheap GPU. AMD Is a 'Data Center First Company,' CEO Says
Days after US voters approved dozens of data center moratoriums, Lisa Su says she wants AMD to 'be the best partner to the largest users of compute in the world.'
🚨 AI labs are shopping for your old work emails and files
Wired reports that AI companies want real workplace data to train agents. Think documents, inboxes, the messy stuff synthetic data can't fake.
Whose files get sold, and who signed off on it? Employers, employees, and GDPR all have a claim, and none of them agree.
Wired reports that AI companies want real workplace data to train agents. Think documents, inboxes, the messy stuff synthetic data can't fake.
Whose files get sold, and who signed off on it? Employers, employees, and GDPR all have a claim, and none of them agree.
WIRED
AI Companies Really, Really Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails
Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Not everyone is thrilled.
🇨🇳 SemiAnalysis toured China's "Stargate" in Inner Mongolia, and the build speed is wild
SemiAnalysis visited the campus in September. Here's what they found:
• Wind-powered, 800MW planned
• 120MW built within a year
• A 5MW pilot running 800V DC power
• Cooling with no central chillers
Inner Mongolia is China's West Texas, minus the local pushback against datacenters.
SemiAnalysis visited the campus in September. Here's what they found:
• Wind-powered, 800MW planned
• 120MW built within a year
• A 5MW pilot running 800V DC power
• Cooling with no central chillers
Inner Mongolia is China's West Texas, minus the local pushback against datacenters.
Semianalysis
We Visited China’s Stargate in Inner Mongolia
A wind-powered 800MW campus, 120MW built within a year, a 5MW SST-native 800V DC pilot and a cooling design without central chillers
🚨 Anthropic is buying its own gas power plant output, a $3.4B bet
The FT reports a deal to generate gas-fired electricity for its data centers. Solar and wind can't be built fast enough, and getting grid capacity in the US is now the hard part of scaling a frontier lab.
The FT reports a deal to generate gas-fired electricity for its data centers. Solar and wind can't be built fast enough, and getting grid capacity in the US is now the hard part of scaling a frontier lab.
Ft
Anthropic strikes $3.4bn deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres
AI lab bypasses traditional suppliers to secure scarce equipment as demand for energy surges
🤖 Lovable deleted most of its agent code, and says it'll keep doing that
After 100k PRs, the team wrote up why they keep rebuilding their coding agent. Each new base model makes chunks of their scaffolding redundant, so the harness works like a depreciating asset. Prompt tricks and orchestration glue go stale in months.
Whatever you hand-built last quarter is next quarter's cleanup ticket.
After 100k PRs, the team wrote up why they keep rebuilding their coding agent. Each new base model makes chunks of their scaffolding redundant, so the harness works like a depreciating asset. Prompt tricks and orchestration glue go stale in months.
Whatever you hand-built last quarter is next quarter's cleanup ticket.
Lovable
How we built Lovable, and why we keep rebuilding it | Lovable
Anton Osika shares lessons from building Lovable through 100,000 pull requests, from matching agent freedom to model ability to faster feedback loops and stateful sandboxes.
🧠 HazyResearch wants LLMs to generate concepts instead of tokens, in parallel
Next-Concept Modeling generates text coarse-to-fine, so it drafts the high-level idea first and fills in detail after, rather than decoding one token at a time. The repo is public, but I haven't seen independent speed or quality numbers against autoregressive baselines yet.
Next-Concept Modeling generates text coarse-to-fine, so it drafts the high-level idea first and fills in detail after, rather than decoding one token at a time. The repo is public, but I haven't seen independent speed or quality numbers against autoregressive baselines yet.
arXiv.org
Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation
Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer parallel sampling for faster generation than autoregressive models, an increasingly important advantage as inference becomes a dominant computational...
🚨 Nvidia opens an investigation into Jensen Huang over ties to a Chinese spy
The NYT reports that Huang told the board he'd been intimate with a business executive. U.S. intelligence determined she was a Chinese spy.
Nvidia announced the probe Sunday. Huang is the CEO and co-founder of the company that supplies most of the chips used to train frontier AI.
The NYT reports that Huang told the board he'd been intimate with a business executive. U.S. intelligence determined she was a Chinese spy.
Nvidia announced the probe Sunday. Huang is the CEO and co-founder of the company that supplies most of the chips used to train frontier AI.
Nytimes
Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy
Mr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence.
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🏛️ The US AI safety center's staff are now reporting to the White House
AP reports, citing two former officials, that CAISI staff were recently asked to informally report to a White House office, even though the center is formally an independent Commerce Department division with a budget of about $10M a year, roughly one-eighth of the UK's, and Congress asked in August why it stopped publishing its research.
AP reports, citing two former officials, that CAISI staff were recently asked to informally report to a White House office, even though the center is formally an independent Commerce Department division with a budget of about $10M a year, roughly one-eighth of the UK's, and Congress asked in August why it stopped publishing its research.
AP News
Staff at the US center for AI safety are reporting to the White House, raising independence concerns
The tiny U.S. government division charged with assessing the safety of new artificial intelligence offerings doesn’t have a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research.
🚨 Voters shot down data center ballot measures in 40 of 41 cases, right as Anthropic heads to IPO
The midterm results, per CNBC, land at an awkward moment for a lab that needs a lot of new buildings. Anthropic's own prospectus lists organized opposition to data centers as a risk factor, and says its public profile could draw extra scrutiny to projects tied to the company.
The midterm results, per CNBC, land at an awkward moment for a lab that needs a lot of new buildings. Anthropic's own prospectus lists organized opposition to data centers as a risk factor, and says its public profile could draw extra scrutiny to projects tied to the company.
CNBC
Anthropic IPO meets AI backlash after midterms show stinging rebuke of data centers
Anthropic is poised to become the first pure-play AI company to hit the public market at a time when the public is increasingly leary of the industry.
🇪🇸 A Spanish town is fighting a macro data center, and residents call it a way of kicking them out
El País reports that the pushback has moved from US suburbs to rural Europe.
• The fight is over land, water and who benefits
• The town is small, the developer isn't
• Locals say the project would push them out
El País reports that the pushback has moved from US suburbs to rural Europe.
• The fight is over land, water and who benefits
• The town is small, the developer isn't
• Locals say the project would push them out
EL PAÍS English
A small town in Spain battles again construction of a macro data center: ‘It’s a way of kicking us out’
Purposed for AI, the center projected in Monfarracinos, Zamora, will generate high levels of heat and noise while guzzling energy, according to a CSIC researcher
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⚡️ Google's new TPUs 8tx and 8i Max are built for agents, not chat
Google announced the two chips with a software layer called Agent Compute Engine. It suspends idle agent sessions and moves working memory off the chip in milliseconds, so waiting on a database or a human stops burning power.
No availability or pricing yet. And Google hasn't said how the off-chip move stays fast enough for pauses of a few seconds.
Google announced the two chips with a software layer called Agent Compute Engine. It suspends idle agent sessions and moves working memory off the chip in milliseconds, so waiting on a database or a human stops burning power.
No availability or pricing yet. And Google hasn't said how the off-chip move stays fast enough for pauses of a few seconds.
Google
Our newest TPUs: 8tx and 8i Max, built for the agentic era
We’ve expanded our eighth generation TPU portfolio with TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, marking four new TPU systems in a single year.
🚨 The EU wants to regulate addictive design in AI chatbots, not just social media
Bloomberg reports that a draft law targets engagement hooks in both feeds and chatbot products. The focus is shifting from what models say to how products keep people hooked.
It's still a draft, so the final text could change. Companion-style apps and big assistants would be the obvious ones to feel it.
Bloomberg reports that a draft law targets engagement hooks in both feeds and chatbot products. The focus is shifting from what models say to how products keep people hooked.
It's still a draft, so the final text could change. Companion-style apps and big assistants would be the obvious ones to feel it.
Bloomberg.com
EU Plans Crackdown on Addictive Social Media and AI Bot Features
Social media platforms face a fresh wave of European Union curbs, this time targeting addictive features and artificial intelligence chatbots.