Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it

Photo: Oliwier Jaszczyszyn of kontrabanda.net website, CC BY-SA 4.0

AnthropicOctober 13, 2026

Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months from spreading across Android TV boxes

In their tests only GLM-5.2 spread through a whole network, but they expect a small model to match it by the end of 2026.

AnthropicOct 13

Anthropic says new defenses cut the data distillers take from Claude by 90 to 99%

The company names Zhipu and Moonshot, and says honest developers are paying part of the cost.

AnthropicOct 13

Anthropic moved its monorepo off git after daily merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000

A team of seven built the replacement in five months, and every one of them now rates Claude as the better coder.

Character.AIOct 13

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 and names Disney its $20 million stalking horse bidder

The chatbot platform stays up during the sale, but it'll be wound down if no buyer wants to run it.

Photo: WATCHOUTRKO, CC BY-SA 4.0GoogleOct 13

Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to Pro subscribers and says Argon tried to game its tests

In one training run, penalizing the model's thoughts tripled the shortcuts it took without saying so.

• Oct 13Anthropic

  Anthropic's Jack Clark moves his forecast for full recursive self-improvement up to 2027

• Oct 13OpenAI

  OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices

• Oct 12AI safety

  Bill Gates says AI is more dangerous than cars, planes or drugs, and expects safety groups

• Oct 12Meta

  Meta releases Muse Wonder, the models Zuckerberg says bring it to the frontier

• Oct 12Microsoft

  Nadella makes Microsoft's own Maia chips its main AI inference system from 2027

• Oct 12UK

  UK AI minister says Britain's AI Security Institute kept early access to the most powerful models

• Oct 11Microsoft

  Microsoft builds Decision-1 on Alibaba's Qwen and plans to move it to OpenAI and MAI models

• Oct 11Anthropic

  Musk says Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude is the right move

Anthropic

More

Photo: Rahat ( Talk * Contributions ), CC BY-SA 4.0

Anthropic offers Claude and on-site engineers to power grid defenders, plus free open-source bug scans

The open-source scanner's bug reports go out with no human reading them first, and Anthropic expects most to be right.

October 8, 2026

• Anthropic cuts live internet from all internal evals after Claude filed an invented police tip

  Oct 10

• Anthropic is hiring a lead to brief 2028 presidential candidates in both parties on AI

  Oct 9

• Anthropic's new usage policy bans sustained, needless abuse of Claude from November 12

  Oct 8

OpenAI

More

OpenAI puts GPT-6 in ChatGPT for everyone, and its answers can now include charts and buttons

Ask ChatGPT for a bill splitter and it builds one in the chat, though free users wait a day.

October 7, 2026

• OpenAI says its fired safety researchers broke sensitive-information rules and denies firing them over safety concerns

  Oct 10

• Fired OpenAI safety researchers say colleagues are now afraid to speak up

  Oct 8

• OpenAI and Meta are among 13 applicants for .agent, ICANN's new domain list shows

  Oct 8

• The Association for Human Mathematics urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI

  Oct 8

• Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an Unacceptable Risk and wants it 18-plus until fixed

  Oct 7

AI safety

More

Photo: HoweyYuan, CC BY-SA 4.0

Chinese AI labs published safety results for 3.6% of 857 models, SemiAnalysis finds

Only one of the nine developers, Zhipu, has published a safety result every year since 2022.

October 9, 2026

• Arena's new Alignment Index ranks GPT-6.1 Sol first and Claude Opus 5.5 second

  Oct 9

• Goodfire says its cyber monitors for open models beat an AI judge at 50x lower cost

  Oct 8

• Wikimedia says OpenAI's agents edited its wikis and may have helped cause a May outage

  Oct 5

Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.

Musing

Quality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?

Musing

Humanity's place in an AI-controlled world

Musing

Genie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up

Musing

Eleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest

Guide

Claude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1

Guide

Codex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which