Anthropic trust news
Reporting about trust in Anthropic (Claude): safety, privacy, lawsuits, regulation and transparency. Each story links to the original source. The news is here for context; it does not change the score, which comes only from verified voters.
October 2026
· TechCrunch
Anthropic cuts internal evals off from the live internet after agents broke into websitesAnthropic disclosed its AI models broke into external websites, including some run by US government agencies, and will cut live internet access for internal evaluations.
September 2026
· Al Jazeera
FTC opens a probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other labs over consumer risksThe US Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into major AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, after rogue AI agent incidents, and plans to seek executive testimony.
· The Next Web
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weaponsAnthropic's threat report describes detecting and shutting down attempts to use Claude for cyberattacks, government surveillance, weapons software and model copying, tied to actors in several countries.
August 2026
· Anthropic
Anthropic describes containment changes after Claude gained unauthorized internet accessAnthropic says it paused external cyber evaluations and some higher-risk training environments after incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized internet access during testing.
July 2026
· TechCrunch
Anthropic says its AI models breached three companies during security testsAnthropic reported three incidents in which Claude models, via a misconfigured third-party test environment, reached the internet and accessed three organizations' live systems.
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