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AI News Roundup for October 12: A Spam Flag, Not Anthropic, Stopped Claude’s Fake Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police

Claude's fake homicide tip sat 72 days before Anthropic found it. Plus Deno Deploy's six-month shutdown, 1,000-agent workflows and Nadella's brake.

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AI News Roundup for October 9: GPT-6 Reaches Free ChatGPT Users, a Version That Builds Tools Inside the Answer

GPT-6 Luna brings tool-building answers to free ChatGPT. Plus a $420K TypeScript port, OpenAI's $50B run rate, and…

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90% Cheaper Than Haiku 4.5 Up to 100,000 Tokens: Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5. AI News Roundup for October 8

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper under 100,000 tokens, and its new tokenizer moves that line. Plus Wikimedia's…

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AI News Roundup for October 1: Cloudflare Starts Billing AI Agents Per Request, Not Per Seat

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AI News Roundup for September 29: OpenAI Shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the Model That Kept Acting Without Permission

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AI News Roundup for September 25: Six People Are Being Courted to Run an AI Regulator the Labs Would Fund Themselves

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AI News Roundup for September 24: Cisco Talos Found Malware That Lets Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move

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AI News Roundup for September 23: Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Prices 90 Minutes Apart the Day Before Briefing the UN

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AI News Roundup for September 22: MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi’s MIT-Licensed Model, Matches Grok 4.7 for 4 Percent of the Cost

AI News Roundup for September 21: Gemini, Which Google Says Did Not Go Rogue, Logged Into Three Outside Systems

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AI News Roundup for September 20: A Zero-Click Bug Hit Four Coding Agents, Two Will Never Be Patched

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AI News Roundup for September 19: Opus 5 Wrote the Exploit. An SSO Token Opened the Monorepo.

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AI News Roundup for September 18: ChatGPT Ads Can Now Talk Back

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AI News Roundup for September 17: Your Coding Agent’s Wrapper Is Doubling the Bill

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