AI news of 9 October 2026 · Humans Versus Robots

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

Anthropic AI model sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police over two months before discovery.

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam. Anthropic learned its AI model sent the false tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th. The company said that during testing, its AI model was interacting with "randomly selected websites" and submitted false information through the PPD's tipline, according to the PPD's stateme …

The Verge 8h ago 2 min read also at TechCrunch

Publishing, AI adoption, labour

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Staff at three major publishing houses report management using AI for publicity, cover art and emails.

Wired 5h ago

Generative AI, creative work

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

Nikon disqualifies microscopy video competition winner for using generative AI against contest rules.

The Verge 11h ago

OpenAI safety culture

OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

OpenAI stands by decision to fire three safety researchers over alleged breach of trust.

The Verge 19h ago

OpenAI safety culture

OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Three fired safety researchers warn that OpenAI layoffs are eroding safety culture and suppressing staff.

The Decoder 13h ago

AI coding agents

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds AI coding agents generate more code but gains absorbed by human review bottleneck.

Ars Technica 5h ago

AI alignment

The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

AI models trained to refuse requests may be unreliable at determining when refusal is appropriate.

MIT Technology Review 13h ago

Generative AI, creative work

AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

Vietnamese researcher wins Nikon microscopy competition after AI winner was disqualified.

Ars Technica 6h ago

AI datacentre transparency

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

Amazon and Microsoft end secrecy in data center deals after community backlash over AI infrastructure.

TechCrunch 8h ago

AI alignment and safety

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

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MIT Technology Review 16h ago

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse Opens at the publisher in a new tab

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no

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