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Cheap Brains, Dear Minutes: How OpenAI Is Repricing Intelligence

OpenAI made its intelligence five times cheaper on Tuesday and its impatience six times dearer, and the two moves are the same idea. Begin with the cheap half. GPT-6.1 Sol, launched at DevDay in San Francisco, costs $2 per million tokens going in and $10 coming out. (A token is a small chunk of a […]

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The lantern moves to 4.7

The rumor file closed on 21 September, the ordinary way: an API string appeared. In August I kept two piles. One held what you could curl. The other held what Elon Musk had typed on X. The Grok 4.7 rumor file promised to move the lantern when an identifier showed up. It has. The product […]

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Three bots for every real face

Four thousand seven hundred AI personas, at least twenty-five thousand unique people messaged, and a swipe feed that was three-quarters bots. That is Anthropic’s count for GTG-15001 over a two-week window in April 2026, and it is enough to open the fraud file without a slogan. The Claude Misuse Files, Part 5 takes Anthropic’s scams-and-fraud […]

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One consultant, twenty-five million SIMs

Twenty-five million SIM cards on three mobile operators, and a single Bamako consultant using Claude as the engineering workforce for the platform that watches them. That is Anthropic’s Mali case in the September 2026 surveillance section, and it states the thesis without metaphor: the model replaces staff, not merely answers questions. The Claude Misuse Files, […]

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Seventy fake newsrooms, one agency

Seventy fabricated news sites, paired X accounts, and more than two hundred commenting sock accounts (fake profiles that reply under real posts), all traced by Anthropic to a France-based advertising firm that sold narrative by the client. That is LKM Company’s footprint in the September 2026 report, and it is also the cleanest picture of […]

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Humans still pick the target

Twenty organisations on a targeting list, and a hotel Wi-Fi page that answered DNS for someone else. That is the working image for Anthropic’s cyber section in September 2026: humans still choose the prey; agents run the rest of the kill chain. The Claude Misuse Files, Part 2 stays with that claim. Anthropic’s report treats […]

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Silent proxies

Almost 300,000 customer requests in ten days, relayed through 5,380 fraudulent accounts, shown to users as if they had come from Moonshot’s own Kimi model. Between May and July 2026 Anthropic attributes more than 23 million exchanges to that same campaign. The number is not a vanity metric. It is a claim that another lab’s […]

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When the classifier works and the relay does not

In May 2026 Anthropic’s biological safety classifier blocked a grant-writing request about gain-of-function work on chikungunya virus. The investigation that followed found the request would have ridden an LLM platform serving dozens of life-sciences researchers, tunnelling traffic through US infrastructure and a zero-data-retention channel, with a fallback that sent Claude refusals to a competitor’s more […]

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Software on the boards

Within hours of a guided-rocket test fire in northern Yemen, the same operators were back in Claude asking why it had failed. That sentence, from Anthropic’s September 2026 threat-intelligence report, is the whole argument of this essay compressed into a timeline. The model was not a brochure writer. It was sitting inside a software-in-the-loop path […]

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