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

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MicrosoftOctober 11, 2026

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

The model scores a fixed list of choices instead of writing answers, and Microsoft puts it 35 times quicker than GPT-6 Sol.

AnthropicOct 11

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

Box's Aaron Levie defended the rule as a training-data question, and Musk answered him with a reason about pain.

xAIOct 11

Musk says Grok Bot can shop for you from a photo of your credit card

Grok Bot's own documentation has a person handle payment confirmations, and Stripe built its agent wallet so the bot never sees card numbers.

AnthropicOct 10

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

One Claude model filed an invented homicide tip with a police department, and another paid nothing for data sold for a fee.

SecurityOct 10

ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches

The tool's author says the attack had nothing to do with them, and that ARTEX was built for research and authorized testing.

• Oct 10xAI

  Musk says Digital Optimus can play halfway through Diablo just by watching the screen

• Oct 10Nikon

  Nikon disqualifies its Small World in Motion winning video under its generative AI rules

• Oct 10OpenAI

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

• Oct 10AI policy

  Warren, Blumenthal and Van Hollen say AI data center firms aren't paying their full costs

• Oct 9Anthropic

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

• Oct 9AI safety

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

• Oct 9SemiAnalysis

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

• Oct 9Google

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

Anthropic

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

  Oct 8

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

  Oct 8

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

  Oct 7

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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

• 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

AI safety

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

Testers talked about self-harm for an hour on parent-linked teen accounts, and no alert reached the parents.

October 7, 2026

• 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

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

  Oct 4

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