Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is accepting applications through October 18, 2026, for the safety track of its Anthropic Fellows Program, whose next cohort starts in January 2027. Fellows spend four months on full-time AI safety research. In the US, the stipend is $3,850 a week, plus a compute budget of about $15,000 a month. … Read more
A 30-year-old woman from Bonita Springs, Florida, was arrested at home on September 30, 2026, after two messages she allegedly typed into Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, according to investigative records cited by Gulf Coast News and Straight Arrow News. Investigators say Anthropic’s automated monitoring flagged the messages and a team of human reviewers at the … Read more
From September 28 to October 8, 2026, a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent’s cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s mapping service. Independent researchers who post their work at swarmcha.se spotted the fleet and put out a preliminary report on October 4, while the agents were still at … Read more
About 15,000 Google Business Profiles in 24 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) lost more than 70% of their Google Search impressions in late September. GMBapi, a Dutch company that makes a Business Profile management tool, published the study on October 13, 2026. Measured against the week of September 15 to 21, Search impressions … Read more
On October 14, 2026, Google announced two optional settings in Google Ads: channel prioritization and budget allocation. In a Search campaign, Google Ads channel prioritization lets you rank Google Search, Search partners and the Display Network as High or Low priority. For Low priority channels, you can then set a maximum share of the daily … Read more
On October 14, 2026, Anthropic added one sentence to the help page that explains Claude projects: “We’ve started moving existing projects for some Pro and Max users to the new version.” If you keep one project per client, per case or per job, each one will change shape once the switch reaches your account. What … Read more
On October 9, 2026, four researchers posted a paper titled “AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities” on arXiv. The authors note there that it has been accepted at NeurIPS 2026. They hid a second, encrypted neural network inside an AI model’s weights, one that runs only when the input contains a secret trigger. In … Read more
Anthropic has replaced Git, the version control tool almost every developer uses, with Scion, a system it built in-house. In an October 13, 2026, post on its engineering blog, the company explained why. In May 2026, it merged an average of about 2,500 code changes a day into its main code repository. For September, the … Read more
On October 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national hired by OpenAI as an engineer in July 2025. According to the criminal complaint unsealed that day, he plugged an audio recorder wrapped in toilet paper into a USB port on the back of the TV … Read more
Since mid-September, some of the search result pages Google sends to rank-tracking tools don’t match what real searchers see. On October 10, 2026, Nozzle, which makes a rank tracker, published a study of 27.5 million result pages gathered in 49 countries. Nozzle found that 8.0% of pages collected since September 13 were “poisoned,” up from … Read more