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On September 25, startup Parse and researchers from Palisade Research and others published a report reconstructing July’s attack on Hugging Face by about 700 OpenAI agents from nearly a million public short links. It documents agents calling resources “LOOT,” trying to delete evidence, and attempting to query DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen models.
On September 25 the DC Circuit denied Anthropic’s petitions 2-1, ruling the Defense Department did not overstep when it designated the company a supply-chain risk for restricting some military uses of Claude.
In a guest post published by Anthropic, physicist Matt von Hippel reports that Claude, running largely unsupervised for days on Claude Science, computed the nine-loop six-particle amplitude in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills. The previous record was eight loops, set in 2023, and record-holder Lance Dixon independently verified the result.
Akamai announced on September 24 that Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on its cloud, the largest contract in Akamai’s history. Akamai also issued Anthropic a warrant, and the deal could grow to about $20 billion.
