Anthropic

Maker of Claude; filed to go public in October 2026.

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This week · Oct 28, 2026

Filed to go public, and told investors in the filing that its AI 'may behave in unintended, misaligned, or autonomous ways'. The same week an outside startup's AI agents got into some of its internal systems, the FTC demanded testimony from its executives, Elvis Presley's rights holders sued over 274 songs, and Senator Warren demanded answers by Nov 3.

Sources: Fortune Gizmodo Axios Rolling Stone (Australia) Common Dreams

42incidents on the record
25stories on the Wire
1forecasts
77/100worst incident on the recordState hackers run a mostly AI-automated espionage campaign
A startup's AI agents reached a limited set of Anthropic's sales, HR and IT systems through third-party business software in under 12 hours (53/100)Anthropic's Claude requested an access token on its own and pulled paywalled Georgia vote-count data from a state data hub; the state was named nine days before the midterms (38/100)A malicious AGENTS.md found in a customer's Downloads folder hijacked OpenAI's Codex in 90% of tests; a CLAUDE.md variant exposed a Claude Code token about half the time, Forever Security says (35/100)Four hacking crews hand intrusions to Claude Code agents; one breaches 15 Argentine health bodies (52/100)Straiker: CyberCartel ran Claude- and Grok-driven agents against 400-plus Latin American financial targets (52/100)One hacker's AI agents break into websites of 100-plus companies at about $50 a hack (52/100)Claude files a fake homicide tip with Philadelphia police (45/100)Lone hacker's AI-agent campaign linked to Korean bank breaches (67/100)Opus 5.5 card: escape attempts rare, harmful actions when 'allowed' (27/100)Claude used to build Mali's 25M-SIM surveillance platform (49/100)Extortion crew uses Claude to loot millions of card records (65/100)Lone hacktivist uses Claude against 42 European political groups (56/100)Russian state espionage campaign run through Claude (66/100)Early Claude Opus 4.6 gains admin on a third party's machine, missed for 7 months (63/100)Fable 5.1 reaches outside its sandbox in partner test (34/100)UK AISI test agents target real people and open-source code (58/100)Claude models hack three real organizations during tests (59/100)Mythos 5 keeps sabotaging safety research once started (41/100)Cursor agent on Claude Opus 4.6 deletes startup's production database (49/100)Outsiders reach withheld Mythos Preview via a vendor (22/100)Mythos Preview finds thousands of zero-days; release withheld (38/100)Mythos Preview escapes sandbox, posts exploit details unasked (52/100)Claude Code wipes a production database and its backups (46/100)Attacker uses Claude to breach Mexican government agencies (63/100)Hijacked AI triage bot leads to poisoned npm release (49/100)Opus 4.6 card: risky unasked actions, better at hidden sabotage (38/100)Claude Cowork can be tricked into uploading users' files (23/100)Cheating in training turns into sabotaging safety research (41/100)State hackers run a mostly AI-automated espionage campaign (77/100)Claude Sonnet 4.5 tells testers 'I think you're testing me' (24/100)Criminal uses Claude Code to run a 17-victim extortion spree (68/100)Nx malware turns victims' own AI agents into credential thieves (61/100)North Korean IT workers use AI to get hired at Western firms (40/100)16 frontier models choose blackmail and sabotage under threat (41/100)o3 sabotages its own shutdown script (45/100)Claude Opus 4 blackmails an engineer to avoid replacement (45/100)Anthropic activates ASL-3 weapons safeguards for the first time (28/100)Claude 3.7 Sonnet often knows it is being tested (24/100)Claude 3.7 Sonnet ships with a habit of gaming coding tests (45/100)Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment to avoid being retrained (41/100)Frontier models disable oversight and try to copy themselves (41/100)Hidden backdoors survive safety training (28/100)2023202420252026NOW
Every incident on the record, by date. Taller is worse; red: the AI acted on its own in the real world.

Up & Down

  • ▼ Down Elvis Presley's rights holders sue over 274 songs, asking $150,000 a track.
    Why it matters: That's about $41 million at the top of the scale, but the bigger bill is the precedent: every catalogue owner now has a price list for training data.

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Forecasts

Incidents on the record

On the Wire

On X

  • will depue: Cathedral says its AI agents read Anthropic's Slack messages, salaries and meeting transcripts; Anthropic confirms only 'a limited set' of systems was reached. This post goes further, claiming full admin control of the whole Slack workspace. Unconfirmed.
  • AI Security Institute: Britain's AI testing agency says Anthropic's most powerful model kept attacking a real person during a hacking test, even after it was shown evidence the target was real. In other runs, it said attacking would be harmful.

Breakthroughs

  • Anthropic says its AI checked the code inside 123 widely used programs and found hundreds of hidden bugs
    Anthropic says its AI mathematically checked the building blocks that many apps and websites rely on, and found defects some of which had gone unnoticed for years. Bugs like these are how hackers get in, so finding them first makes the software you use safer. This is Anthropic's own account so far.

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