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

SemiAnalysisOctober 9, 2026

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.

AnthropicOct 9

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

The company wants a Washington lead to brief every serious 2028 candidate, in both parties, on AI policy.

AI safetyOct 9

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

The new index counts how often agents act without permission, or say they finished a job they didn't.

GoogleOct 9

Google Cloud's new Gemini agent runs work for days and can hand jobs to Claude

Coworker agents get their own email address, calendar and Drive, and a spot in the company directory.

PolicyOct 9

Trump says the White House treats anyone who says Artificial Intelligence as the enemy

Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked it within hours, but the government's own AI website still sits at ai.gov.

• Oct 9Policy

  Trump gives Musk, Huang and Su science medals as tech firms pledge $2.4 billion for AI

• Oct 8Anthropic

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

• Oct 8Anthropic

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

• Oct 8Security

  CrowdStrike says an attacker likely used the ARTEX AI agent against South Korean banks

• Oct 8Policy

  Fed officials said the AI buildout was adding to inflation when they raised rates in September

• Oct 8OpenAI

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

• Oct 8Goodfire

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

• Oct 8OpenAI

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

Anthropic

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Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts prices up to 90% and tops GPT-6 Luna in Anthropic's own tests

Most requests now cost a tenth of what Haiku 4.5 charged, and the small model gets an effort dial for the first time.

October 7, 2026

• Anthropic merges Glasswing into a three-tier cyber program that unlocks Opus 5.5 and Mythos 5.1

  Oct 6

• Senator Moreno tells Amodei to drop the alarmist AI talk as Anthropic prepares to go public

  Oct 6

• Anyone can download GLM-5.3, and Anthropic says it builds exploits almost as well as Mythos

  Sep 30

OpenAI

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

The group doesn't dispute a single proof. It objects to how OpenAI released them, while Vitalik Buterin worries about what the math means for encryption.

October 8, 2026

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

  Oct 7

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

  Oct 7

• OpenAI posts 722 math papers from an unreleased model, including a claimed quasi-Riemann hypothesis proof

  Oct 7

AI safety

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

Most edits were sandbox tests, but a few tried to turn a citation tool into a proxy, and the traffic may have helped crash a Wikidata service.

October 5, 2026

• GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by running the top human-written bot, its tester says

  Oct 4

• Google pauses its open-source bug bounty for product flaws, citing a flood of invalid automated reports

  Oct 4

• Google DeepMind can now watermark AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives in the physical molecule

  Sep 30

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

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