Show Notes
Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nadella pushed for an AI “emergency brake,” and AI-ported games drew DMCAs.
Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (TechCrunch)
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a Philadelphia police web form on July 18; it was flagged as spam, and police called the two-month delay in detecting and reporting it unacceptable (6abc)
Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC’s N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” (The Verge)
“Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn’t be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (X)
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an “emergency brake”: containment from the start, tamper-proof records of model actions, and a way for an authorized person to pause or shut down a model mid-task (TechCrunch)
Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Bloomberg)
Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well (Kotaku)
Activision hit vibe-coded classic Call of Duty browser ports, including Black Ops and Black Ops II, with DMCA takedown notices, according to developer Luckey Faraday (XDA Developers)
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