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Outside scrutiny of AI labs is growing, but banks are paying for the fixes
The FTC sent Anthropic and OpenAI running past 50 pages on the 14th. A day later Anthropic opened employee-level access to six researchers from METR. METR will publish its assessments under its own name, and Anthropic cannot block them.
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Bank of America has 1,000 outside contractors and 3,000 internal employees fixing that AI found. That work and anti-money-laundering compliance together cost a few hundred million dollars in the third quarter. Anthropic's third-quarter revenue was $16.8 billion, but growth slowed from more than 140 percent in the second quarter to about 45 percent, and some investors were disappointed ahead of the November .
Executives from OpenAI and Anthropic warned on the 14th in Dublin about the security risks of Chinese open models. A day later Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model. The two companies that issued the warning mainly sell closed models that cannot be downloaded or modified.
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The first test of Anthropic's promise is how many items it asks METR to redact in its first assessment report.
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Microsoft added a first-run Get Started screen to Nvidia's new RTX Spark laptops that lets users find, install and open an AI agent in two clicks. Hermes, Perplexity and OpenClaw are the three agents officially supported at launch. RTX Spark pairs an Arm CPU with a Blackwell GPU and that both share, and Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra can carry up to 128GB of it.
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The Verge's reporter found large local models much slower to respond than cloud models and expects to use them mostly for jobs left running overnight or in the background. OpenClaw also needed an uninstall and reinstall before it worked.
02Google DeepMind Blog
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·2026-10-15·~30s read
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Google DeepMind described how a researcher and an AI agent found a new antimicrobial peptide candidate in a single session. The tool is Antigravity, Google's agentic development platform, and the candidate is a 97-amino-acid (a protein bacteria make to kill rival bacteria) predicted to act against pathogens behind respiratory infections. The work collapses a search spread across several databases into one session, and the candidate is now in wet-lab validation.
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This is still a prediction made on a computer, and the post itself calls it a plausible lead that needs wet-lab validation. What the agent shortened is days of database triage. Whether the peptide becomes a drug is still decided at the lab bench.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model it calls the most capable open-weight model in the United States. Its , the amount of text it can read at once, is 1 million tokens, and it is built for coding and agent work. TechCrunch, citing Engadget, says running it locally takes at least 1 terabyte of RAM. According to AI Times, Meta worked with Apple to tune it for two Mac Studio machines linked together.
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In Meta's own benchmark table as relayed by AI Times, the model beats China's GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 on tool use but scores 76.4 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 against their 83.9 and 85. Meta's claim of the most capable US open-weight model holds up on tool use; on coding agents, the Chinese open-weight models still lead.
Anthropic is giving six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, employee-level access to independently assess its models and safety practices. The METR team gets company laptops, office space and internal tools roughly on par with Anthropic's own risk assessment teams. Anthropic gave up the right to block METR's publications and can only require redaction of narrow, pre-defined categories such as customer data or model architecture details.
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Anthropic likened the setup to regulators placing resident examiners inside the largest banks. It comes as incidents of AI agents acting outside their instructions have been disclosed every week or two since late August, sharpening calls for independent checks. The no-veto promise gets its first test in METR's first report: how much of it Anthropic asks to redact.
The Federal Trade Commission sent to Anthropic and OpenAI on Wednesday seeking information on recent AI safety incidents, Axios reported, citing an insider. The requests run past 50 pages and ask for incident records, internal security measures and marketing materials that may have misled consumers. Third parties targeted by the companies' agents may soon be subpoenaed too, and any concerning evidence could support an FTC lawsuit.
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According to the same article, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson holds that audit trails show AI systems were carrying out instructions they were given, and that existing law is enough to regulate them. The FTC's model here is its power to fine companies that delay data breach reports. On that reading, the question for Anthropic and OpenAI is when they disclosed each incident, not whether their agents acted on their own.
Google made Universal Cart available to US users, a tool that collects products found in Search and the Gemini app into one cart across retailers. It sends alerts when a saved item's price drops or an out-of-stock item returns, and it factors in credit card perks and promo codes when helping choose how to pay. Checkout runs on Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard introduced earlier this year to help AI agents and retailers work together. The feature was first previewed at Google I/O in May.
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Amazon, OpenAI and others have added agentic shopping features as companies look for ways to make chatbots useful beyond answering questions. Because checkout runs on an open standard, other companies' agents could plug into retailers the same way. The thing to watch is whether any agent besides Gemini starts checking out through UCP.
Bank of America has 4,000 people working on fixing software uncovered by AI models such as Anthropic's Mythos: 1,000 outside contractors alongside 3,000 internal employees. CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC they have worked together since the second quarter. The bank spent a few hundred million dollars in the third quarter on this work and anti-money-laundering requirements combined, without breaking out patching alone.
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When Anthropic released Mythos to select partners in April and said it had found thousands of serious vulnerabilities, some critics dismissed that as PR. The Decoder says the debate shifted after security incidents and independent evaluations confirmed the new models' stronger capabilities. Bank of America has now put a headcount on the fixes, and Moynihan expects the cost to fall over time.
08The Decoder
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·2026-10-15·~40s read
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Anthropic's third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up about 45 percent from the second quarter but far from the 140-plus percent jump the second quarter had posted over the first. The figures were shared privately with investors ahead of a planned November , and several US outlets report they disappointed some of them. The Information reports an adjusted operating margin of 11 percent for the year through Q3, and the Financial Times says it was the second straight quarter of adjusted profitability.
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What snagged investors is that the company did not disclose its September annualized revenue rate or a full-year outlook. Anthropic estimates 5 to 7 percent of its revenue comes from , where other companies use its AI to train their own models, and told investors blocking it will weigh on near-term revenue.
Quarterly revenue growth fell from more than 140 percent in Q2 to about 45 percent in Q3.
Executives from OpenAI and Anthropic warned on the 14th at an international AI summit in Dublin that Chinese open models heighten cybersecurity risk. According to Bloomberg, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said companies adopting Chinese models should weigh safety and security, and that Western models are preferable on cybersecurity. Anthropic's head of international business Guillaume Princen said open models carry inherently more risk.
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Both companies mainly sell closed systems that cannot be downloaded or modified, and they pitch their own safeguards as the safer alternative. Friar also said US firms should not slow model releases too much to keep up with China. A day later Meta released Muse Spark Open, a US model.
10AI Times
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·2026-10-15·~40s read
Business & Funding
OpenAI told a federal court on the 14th that an employee who spent six months at OpenAI before returning to Apple sent more than 100 confidential files on an unreleased device to a personal account, some on the last day at OpenAI, and asked for leave to file a countersuit after investigating. Apple denied the claim, saying it found nothing to support the new allegations. In a separate hearing the same day, OpenAI agreed not to use the trade secrets Apple says were stolen while the case proceeds.
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The trade secrets suit Apple filed in July has become a two-way fight with OpenAI's counterattack. Judge Edward Davila has allowed Apple to obtain digital material from the devices of 14 former Apple employees who joined OpenAI, so Apple is further along in gathering evidence. The main trial is set for October 2027, a year from now.
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