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Anthropic detailed how it disrupted AI misuse for cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research, OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro signups amid Astra demand, AI assistant Instinct sought $1B in new funding, and IDScan confirmed its driver's-license breach.
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
TechCrunch details Anthropic's five distillation campaigns, including a 151 million-exchange effort tied to Alibaba's Qwen models and a Moonshot AI campaign that routed Chinese military surveillance requests through Claude via 5,000 accounts (TechCrunch)
The New York Times reports Anthropic blocked a scientist's grant request to engineer a more harmful chikungunya virus strain at a military research institute, one of several disrupted plots it says could have aided biological weapons development (The New York Times)
OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid "unprecedented" Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected (X)
Wired reports OpenAI has asked Congress whether an industry-wide AI slowdown would violate antitrust law, as a bipartisan bill to let AI labs coordinate on safety sits stalled in the House Judiciary Committee (Wired)
Source: AI assistant Instinct is looking to raise $1B in new funding after recently raising $250M, as it seeks more computing power amid capacity constraints (The Information)
ID verification service IDScan confirms that a data breach involved the theft of driver's licenses from its systems after hackers tried to sell 153M+ licenses (TechCrunch)
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