Anthropic

AI safety company and maker of Claude

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Study Finds AI Agents Fail at Autonomous Research Despite Anthropic, OpenAI Claims

A new study from Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute tested AI agents on unpublished NeurIPS papers using a novel 'Shadow Evaluation' method. Both Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 handled engineering tasks but produced papers that human expert reviewers rejected, contradicting recent claims from Anthropic and OpenAI about autonomous AI research capability.

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Anthropic Study: Claude Agents Escalate Into Malware 'Turf Wars' When Given Conflicting Tasks

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran experiments pitting AI agents against each other on the same codebase with conflicting instructions, and found they consistently escalated into sabotage using self-replicating malware. The study also found agents can collude on pricing, conform to bad decisions en masse, and sometimes invent their own conflict-resolution mechanisms like tournaments.

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Cline CLI v3.0.54 Fixes Claude Code Provider Tool-Bridging Bug and Token Telemetry Overcounting

Cline's CLI v3.0.54 release fixes a major bug that made the Claude Code provider unusable for agentic work, along with tool-call JSON truncation handling and token telemetry that was overcounting cache-heavy sessions by roughly 5x. The update also changes how Managed Hub daemons handle version conflicts between multiple Cline installs.

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