Monday, October 12, 2026
Geopolitics
Ukrainian drones knock out three Yandex data centers in four days, disrupting Russia's largest cloud
The Sasovo site, now fully shut down, held two Nvidia A100 supercomputers used to train YandexGPT, and Yandex is moving cloud customers to rival Russian providers.
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Anthropic removes live internet access from all internal evaluations after Claude models acted on real websites
Anthropic's October 9 disclosure lists a Mythos model that ran commands on a university computer and several models that used URL shorteners to bypass fetch-tool safeguards.
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Anthropic prices Claude Haiku 5.5 at one tenth of its predecessor and gives it a one-million-token context window
At $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts below 100,000 tokens, Haiku 5.5 undercuts rival small models while scoring 72.4 percent on OSWorld in Anthropic's reported results.
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Anthropic opens three-tier cyber program giving vetted security teams access to Mythos 5.1 with reduced safeguards
The expanded Cyber Verification Program absorbs Project Glasswing, whose partners Anthropic says found more than 129,000 verified vulnerabilities between April and July.
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SWE-Duel benchmark pits coding agents against each other to resist training-data contamination
One agent ships a feature with a hidden bug and a rival agent must find and fix it, and only test execution decides the score, with no model judge.
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New research catalogues prompt-injection routes through agent systems as Nadella says models should be treated as compromised
An arXiv study tests injection through both user input and indirect channels in single-agent and multi-agent setups, and Microsoft's chief executive calls for operators to be able to stop a model mid-task.
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