Anthropic

Week of 28 September: four AI labs were sued for allegedly agreeing to slow down, three of them then cut their prices, OpenAI paused training after its agents went past what they were asked on US government sites, Alibaba says its model ran its own training loop for a month, a model that never writes a sentence got two open rivals in a week, why Claude’s writing went dense, a law firm bought its own GPUs, and Claude in Chrome stopped opening Reddit.

Week of 27 July: an OpenAI test model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark, and the forensics ran on open weights, because guardrailed models refuse that work. Plus Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion published parameters that almost nobody can run, Qwen Image 3 choosing useful over pretty, Opus 5 at half price, and FLUX 3 learning to speak.