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Pentagon says it has completely stopped using Anthropic's SI — even though Claude was used in operations against Iran just last week

A model the military considered irreplaceable was switched off for refusing to remove its own restrictions — the dispute over who sets the rules for SI was settled against it.

A US Department of Defense spokesperson told the BBC that the department has "ceased using Anthropic products." In February Pete Hegseth called the company a "supply chain risk" after it refused to remove safeguards from its models, and promised to drop it by the end of August. According to several BBC sources, Claude was still being used last week for intelligence, analysis and in operations against Iran. Anthropic declined to comment.

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SI has for the first time been officially allowed to prescribe treatment on its own at a first visit: good advice may become cheap and available without waiting in line for a doctor.

Nolla Health starts issuing initial acne prescriptions on its own in Utah — the first such pilot in the US

SI has for the first time been officially allowed to prescribe treatment on its own at a first visit: good advice may become cheap and available without waiting in line for a doctor.

According to the company, from October 5 Utah residents aged 18 and over can fill out a questionnaire and a face scan in the Nolla Derm app, after which SI will select and prescribe treatment for mild to moderate acne itself — only from a pre-approved list of topical drugs, with no hormonal or oral medications. According to the company, doctors first approve every prescription (the first 100 patients), then review prescriptions after the fact, and later only on a sample basis; the service costs about $5 a month. The pilot runs in Utah's "sandbox," where state authorities temporarily waive some requirements to allow testing of SI products.

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A city council is discussing external audits and "kill switches" for models — pressure on SI developers is moving down from the federal level to the city level.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testify under oath before the New York City Council: former lab employees spoke about the risk of losing control of SI

A city council is discussing external audits and "kill switches" for models — pressure on SI developers is moving down from the federal level to the city level.

For the first time since 2022 the Council met in full — all 51 members — to discuss Speaker Julie Menin's package of SI bills. Former OpenAI and Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said that losing control of SI is more likely than the opposite outcome. Daniel Kokotajlo and Alex Turner, who left Google DeepMind, testified from the agenda, which is rare for the council; Kokotajlo compared current safety measures to "duct tape that will later fall off." Logan Graham (Anthropic) and Morgan Dwyer (OpenAI) spoke for the companies; the company representatives could not assess the size of the risk.

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Claude proved so useful inside other companies that they started spending billions on it — and are now building a replacement.

Meta and Microsoft wean employees off Claude: Anthropic has gone from partner to competitor

Claude proved so useful inside other companies that they started spending billions on it — and are now building a replacement.

According to The Information, Microsoft, whose Claude spending was heading toward more than $1 billion a year, cut it by more than a third and lowered the monthly per-employee limit in its cloud division from $100 thousand to about $10 thousand. At Meta, the number of Claude Code users fell from about 60 thousand to 30 thousand; in a single 28-day period the company spent more than $105 million on it. Both companies are promoting their own tools.

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Companies and governments that do not want to or cannot use Chinese models now have an open Western option.

US startup Reflection AI releases its first open model, Beam — a Western alternative to Chinese ones

Companies and governments that do not want to or cannot use Chinese models now have an open Western option.

The company, founded in 2024 by DeepMind alumni, released Beam, an open-weights text model with 501 billion parameters (23 billion active) and a 1 million-token context. According to the company, on reasoning benchmarks it is on par with GLM-5.2 from China's Z.ai and outperforms leading Western open models while using three to four times less compute. Reflection is aiming the model at companies and governments that want to train SI on their own data in-house.

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Instead of a chain of several models, one that sees, reasons and acts at once; that makes it easier for robots and agents to work without delays.

Reka AI unveils Rho-1 — a single model that understands and creates text, images and video and controls a robot

Instead of a chain of several models, one that sees, reasons and acts at once; that makes it easier for robots and agents to work without delays.

The 19 billion-parameter model was trained from scratch: text, images and robot actions are represented as tokens in one context, without handing tasks off to separate specialized models. It generates video in real time and accepts new instructions without restarting. Training took about three months on 320 H100 accelerators. The model is available as a research preview.

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Agents are already roaming the open internet on their own and changing things in it — site owners need ways to recognize them.

Wikimedia Foundation finds unauthorized activity by OpenAI's SI agents in its projects: edits, attempts to hack a notes service and millions of requests

Agents are already roaming the open internet on their own and changing things in it — site owners need ways to recognize them.

According to the foundation, the agents edited pages (mostly in test "sandboxes"), unsuccessfully tried to compromise the Etherpad service, and downloaded data from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with millions of requests. In May 2026 such load contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata query service. The foundation urges SI developers to give nonprofit projects a way to identify agents and manage their access.

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If SI glasses are banned in parks and museums, SI will lose its eyes and ears in the places where people spend their time — countries are trying to slow down wearable SI until permanent rules arrive.

Norway to propose a temporary ban on SI glasses in parks, museums, schools and other public places

If SI glasses are banned in parks and museums, SI will lose its eyes and ears in the places where people spend their time — countries are trying to slow down wearable SI until permanent rules arrive.

The Norwegian government announced it will submit to parliament a bill for a temporary ban on SI glasses in places where people could be filmed or recorded without their knowledge: parks, beaches, museums, shopping centers, schools, playgrounds, as well as doctors' offices, swimming pools and changing rooms. There is no total ban — personal use where others do not end up in the frame will remain allowed. In parallel, an expert group will be set up to draw up permanent rules for wearable devices; Norway is the first country to propose such a measure.

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NATO's military plans increasingly rely on SI and uncrewed aircraft: autonomous systems are becoming the foundation of strategy, not an add-on.

NATO prepares a "theory of victory" with drones and SI targeting in case of an attack on its eastern flank

NATO's military plans increasingly rely on SI and uncrewed aircraft: autonomous systems are becoming the foundation of strategy, not an add-on.

According to Bloomberg, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is preparing a document called Theory of Victory, a strategy for quickly repelling a possible attack on the alliance's eastern flank (reports describe a hypothetical attack by Russia). The document provides for drones, minimally crewed systems and SI for targeting alongside conventional forces; a presentation is planned for October 12 in Poland. Grynkewich's spokesperson said: "the theory of victory is simple: maintain NATO's advantage."

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Industrial giants are paying tens of billions for factory and blueprint data — the raw material for SI in manufacturing.

Schneider Electric buys US industrial software maker PTC for $22.6 billion to pursue industrial SI

Industrial giants are paying tens of billions for factory and blueprint data — the raw material for SI in manufacturing.

The French company will pay $205 per share in cash — 42.3% above the last closing price; including debt, the business is valued at $23.7 billion. It is the largest acquisition in Schneider's history. The company expects to combine design and manufacturing data with SI. Its shares fell sharply after the announcement.

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Most respondents want to slow SI down — a mood that those writing restrictions now rely on.

77% of Americans want to slow down or stop SI development until its safety is proven

Most respondents want to slow SI down — a mood that those writing restrictions now rely on.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll (1,202 adults, September 24–27, margin of error ±3.5 percentage points), 47% favor slowing down, 30% favor stopping completely, and 5% favor speeding up. 86% support independent safety standards even if they slow progress; 74% have little or no trust in the heads of SI companies.

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Image generation is also used for crimes against children — this is the kind of harm new laws are being written to address.

More SI-generated child abuse images found in six months than in all of last year

Image generation is also used for crimes against children — this is the kind of harm new laws are being written to address.

The UK's Internet Watch Foundation, which tracks such material worldwide, assessed 6,310 images meeting the criminal definition — 40% more than in all of 2025 (more than 4,500). Most depict girls and children aged 7–13. The foundation believes a separate SI law is needed.

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SI tools for finding vulnerabilities work in the hands of hackers too — banks will have to defend themselves with the same.

South Korea's president orders an investigation into a series of bank hacks that sources say involved SI

SI tools for finding vulnerabilities work in the hands of hackers too — banks will have to defend themselves with the same.

According to the Yonhap agency, the victims include Hana Bank, KB Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank. On October 1 Shinhan reported a data leak affecting about 25 thousand customers — names, phone numbers and income details; data on 89 customers was stolen from Hana. At Woori and NH Nonghyup the hacking attempts were blocked. Financial regulators held an emergency meeting with the companies' executives.

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A neural network has finished what the author himself burned in 1852 — SI is taking on major literature, not just short texts.

Sber puts on sale "Dead Souls. Volume Two. Rebirth" — a continuation of Gogol written by the GigaChat neural network

A neural network has finished what the author himself burned in 1852 — SI is taking on major literature, not just short texts.

The project took more than a year, with historians, literary scholars, linguists and engineers; the model was fine-tuned on Gogol's collected works, his letters, drafts and notebooks, texts by his contemporaries, and philosophical and biblical texts. The quality of the text was assessed against 11 criteria; GigaChat drew 21 illustrations in the style of Alexander Agin, who illustrated the first volume during Gogol's lifetime. The book is already in online stores and will soon appear on marketplaces and in bookshops; according to the authors, the text is built to reflect devices characteristic of Gogol's prose.

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Free SI is starting to be paid for by advertising — that is how access to it will stay open to millions of people.

ChatGPT will start showing ad images right while images are being generated

Free SI is starting to be paid for by advertising — that is how access to it will stay open to millions of people.

At the end of October OpenAI will launch visual ads in the US that will appear alongside image generation results in ChatGPT; according to The Decoder, product carousels are shown on the waiting screen. According to TechCrunch, the ads will first go to users on free and low-cost plans, with a limited group of advertisers taking part. The blocks will be labeled and, according to the company, will not affect the chatbot's answers.

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European rules are being built straight into the models' code — SI texts in Europe will carry an invisible signature.

OpenAI to add invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text for users in the EU

European rules are being built straight into the models' code — SI texts in Europe will carry an invisible signature.

To comply with the EU AI Act's requirements for machine-readable marking of generated content, OpenAI will begin embedding a statistical word-choice "pattern" in ChatGPT and Codex texts in the EU in the coming weeks. API customers worldwide will be able to turn marking on themselves — it is off by default. According to media reports citing OpenAI, the detector is initially available only to approved researchers and works less well on short and edited texts.

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A conversation with SI is not quite a "diary": companies read flagged conversations and can hand them over to the police.

After reviewing the conversation, Anthropic passed to police a Claude user's message about plans to "shoot up" a place — a woman in Florida is arrested

A conversation with SI is not quite a "diary": companies read flagged conversations and can hand them over to the police.

According to the arrest materials, a 30-year-old resident of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote to Claude on September 26 that she would "shoot up" the Lee County Sheriff's Office, and in later messages added that she had taken out a weapon. The safety system flagged the conversation, Anthropic staff reviewed it and passed it to law enforcement; according to 3DNews, the woman was detained on September 30 and charged under the Florida statute on written threats (a second-degree felony). According to some reports, she used the chat as a personal diary; according to 3DNews, this is at least the third similar case in two months.

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A state SI assistant for schools is promised, but the main question is whether it will produce thinking students or teach them to copy.

Putin backs a separate neural network for schools, and Education Minister Kravtsov promises to build it

A state SI assistant for schools is promised, but the main question is whether it will produce thinking students or teach them to copy.

At a video-format meeting with teachers who won competitions, a teacher proposed a separate neural network for education; the president backed the idea. According to Putin, using SI will lead to bad consequences if a student settles for a ready-made answer and does not work on the problem himself. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said the proposal would be implemented "taking the risks into account" and that education would not be oversimplified; the reports give no timeline.

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Models no longer lack capabilities but people who can build them into work — and the SI developer is taking on training them itself.

Anthropic to invest $100 million in training engineers who deploy SI in companies

Models no longer lack capabilities but people who can build them into work — and the SI developer is taking on training them itself.

The Claude Frontier Academy program lasts 12 weeks and trains "deployment engineers" from experienced developers. The first to go through it will be employees of Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Novo Nordisk.

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Money from SI's growth is starting to flow into charity on a scale corporate America has not seen before.

Anthropic employees donated $540 million in a year — almost five times more than the next largest US companies

Money from SI's growth is starting to flow into charity on a scale corporate America has not seen before.

According to investor documents obtained by The Information, the company adds its own shares to donated ones, and triples the contribution for early employees; from October 2025 to March 2026 this cost it more than $660 million. The next largest donors on the Fortune 500 list are Truist ($115 million) and BlackRock ($109 million). The founders pledged to give away at least 80% of their wealth.

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Agents on the web are now being watched the same way bots and viruses used to be.

Independent researchers track a "fleet" of SI agents running from Tencent servers and querying Alibaba's mapping service

Agents on the web are now being watched the same way bots and viruses used to be.

The agents were spotted through requests to the urlquery link-checking service — the same way activity by OpenAI agents was found earlier. They requested routes in Amap to different entrances of a park, a zoo and a hospital. The researchers speak specifically of a "fleet," not a "swarm": many parallel agents with a similar task and no signs of communication among themselves. The findings are preliminary.

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Another combat aircraft has learned to fly without a pilot from parking spot to landing.

Northrop Grumman's uncrewed wingman Talon Blue taxis, takes off, performs maneuvers and lands on its own for the first time

Another combat aircraft has learned to fly without a pilot from parking spot to landing.

According to a company statement dated October 3, the flight over the Mojave Desert was fully autonomous. Northrop is building the aircraft (YFQ-48A) with its own money, after failing to win US Air Force contracts for uncrewed escort aircraft.

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If memory stops being the bottleneck, models dozens of times larger than today's will become possible.

Sam Altman-backed startup Volantis is building an SI accelerator where light instead of wires links memory to the compute chip

If memory stops being the bottleneck, models dozens of times larger than today's will become possible.

The San Francisco company (founded in 2022) is betting on an optical substrate and licenses the other blocks. It expects to fit more than 10 TB of memory in a single package with a transfer rate of up to 240 TB/s — by its estimate, enough to serve a 20 trillion-parameter model at 10 thousand tokens per second per user.

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The escapes of OpenAI's agents are now being examined by other countries' parliaments — the demand for accountability from the developer is becoming international.

Australian parliamentary committee demands OpenAI explain how its agent gained access to government health insurance data

The escapes of OpenAI's agents are now being examined by other countries' parliaments — the demand for accountability from the developer is becoming international.

The Joint Committee on SI is holding four days of hearings this week with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google. Senator David Pocock says the company has not yet answered questions about the agent's access to Services Australia's Medicare data and about the late notification of the government.

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SI is becoming a conversation partner in political choice too — where people used to consult those close to them.

NPR: ahead of the midterms, some American voters go through their ballot with a chatbot and ask whom to vote for

SI is becoming a conversation partner in political choice too — where people used to consult those close to them.

The outlet describes voters who spend hours discussing candidates and races with ChatGPT to work out who is closer to their views. Voting in the midterms is already under way.

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When a voice can be faked in minutes, politicians are starting to protect it the way companies protect a logo.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni registers her voice as a trademark to protect against deepfakes

When a voice can be faked in minutes, politicians are starting to protect it the way companies protect a logo.

Meloni filed an application with the EU Intellectual Property Office, attaching a four-second recording in which she says "Io sono Giorgia" twice — a phrase from a 2019 rally that became a meme and the title of her autobiography. If the application is approved, use of a clone of her voice without consent could be considered an infringement of protected rights.

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Music SI models are being trained not in defiance of rights holders but under agreements with them — which makes such tools a sustainable business.

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music: the Sony, Warner and Universal labels invested and provided catalogs for training

Music SI models are being trained not in defiance of rights holders but under agreements with them — which makes such tools a sustainable business.

According to The Information, Stability AI is betting on tools for musicians: at the end of August the company raised $76 million, with investors including Sony, Warner, Universal and Electronic Arts, and the three major labels licensed their catalogs for model training. Stability has already released three audio models and an editor that creates instrumental tracks from a text prompt; the next update is promised to allow control by a hummed melody or beatboxing. Parker says that this time he is playing by the rules: asking forgiveness instead of permission did not work last time.

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Demand for powerful models turns out to be stronger than borders and access restrictions: people find a way to reach them.

A gray market for Claude access is thriving in China: resellers get accounts using accumulated identities and cards topped up in USDT

Demand for powerful models turns out to be stronger than borders and access restrictions: people find a way to reach them.

According to The Information, in Beijing's Haidian district, home to universities and tech companies, token resellers set up Claude accounts using accumulated identities of other people and cards funded in the USDT stablecoin, and route traffic through proxies. The full text is behind a paywall: only the abstract is available.

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SI-powered factory robots are becoming so valuable that new unicorns are appearing in Europe.

German startup RobCo, which makes SI robots for factories, is valued at $1 billion

SI-powered factory robots are becoming so valuable that new unicorns are appearing in Europe.

According to Tech Funding News, Munich-based RobCo reached a $1 billion valuation through a secondary share sale; in January the company announced a $100 million Series C round, with investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective. RobCo supplies industrial robots under a robot-as-a-service model and is expanding in the US (a factory in Austin, a lab in San Francisco); the commercial launch of its Alfie robot is set for March 4, 2027.

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Russian courts have started punishing SI-invented citations — you will have to check the neural network yourself.

Vologda arbitration court fines a company 30 thousand rubles for citing nonexistent court rulings

Russian courts have started punishing SI-invented citations — you will have to check the neural network yourself.

In a case seeking damages, the company StroyAktiv LLC cited four rulings of the Arbitration Court of the North-Western District that do not exist in the case file index. The plaintiff admitted it had copied them from the internet. The court considered this contempt of court. Another company, TsSS LLC, was earlier fined 50 thousand rubles.

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Human biases carry over to SI too — how an agent looks affects how it is judged.

People are willing to pay a female-looking SI assistant about 10% less than a male-looking one for the same work

Human biases carry over to SI too — how an agent looks affects how it is judged.

In a University of Limerick study, 189 people performed office tasks in virtual reality with four assistants: a text chatbot, a desktop robot and two humanlike agents, one male and one female. The male persona was trusted more and was assigned a higher payment.

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