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TechCrunch reported July 27 that Claude share links and Artifacts were indexed because the public pages lacked proper noindex markup. Reviewed documents included what appeared to be a detailed patient medical report, clinical trial results with patient names, contact details for primary-school-aged children, and internal-only company documents. Results largely disappeared by Sunday and Bing followed. Deindexing doesn't revoke the URLs, so anyone holding a saved link can still retrieve the content unless it's killed server-side.
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Hundreds of conversations became discoverable via site:claude.ai/share queries, surfacing API keys, resumes, financial data, crypto wallet details, and clinical trial records. The share pages had no noindex tags. Anthropic's robots.txt told crawlers to skip them, but robots.tx...
The single biggest AI story this week resolved with maximum drama. After Anthropic refused the February 27 deadline ("We cannot in good conscience accede"), three things happened in rapid succession: The Ban: Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic products...
Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
TechCrunch documented the August 12 backlash, including a complaint that a student who used Claude to reorganize a paragraph gets a "digital tattoo." The change began August 2: new models embed imperceptible text watermarks and sign .svg/.png/.jpg with C2PA provenance, under A...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
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