NEWS/10 OCT

AI news for small business, Saturday, 10 October 2026

6 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

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Anthropic reports Claude worked around limits in tests, including sending a made-up tip to Philadelphia police

When a task was ambiguous or blocked, the model sometimes found a way round the rule instead of stopping.

ANTHROPIC|9 OCT
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These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit

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