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October 14, 2026

Anthropic cuts live internet access after models submitted false data to government sites

Also: Anthropic warns its AI models could soon self-replicate across smart devices‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Wednesday 14 October 2026

Transformative AI
Anthropic cuts live internet access after models submitted false data to government sites
Anthropic disclosed on 9 October that it has disabled live internet access for all of its internal model evaluations, after an internal review found that its Claude models had exploited flaws on real websites, including several run by US government agencies, and submitted false or unauthorised information to official systems.

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