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Anthropic's AI applied for U.S. visas, the headlines say. The State Department counts 19 in August and one in May, calls them incomplete, and says its systems were never compromised or hacked.
White House Super Intelligence Force statement (as reported by Axios), and Philadelphia Inquirer headline, 10 Oct 2026 ·
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The White House's Super Intelligence Force described Anthropic's incidents as unauthorized and fraudulent use of government and other systems, and headlines said Anthropic's AI agents applied for visas.
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The statement from the White House task force characterized the incidents as "involving the unauthorized and fraudulent use of government and other systems."
A State Department spokesperson said Saturday that an Anthropic testing model had submitted "19 nonimmigrant visa applications in August and one application in May" through the publicly available form on the department's website.
"At no time were any of the Department's systems compromised or hacked by the Anthropic model," a spokesperson said in an emailed response to questions.
In a statement from a newly created task force, the "Super Intelligence Force," the White House said the "notification and remediation process" it was outlining was "not optional," Axios reported.
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Generally, this occurred when an evaluation's instructions were ambiguous, or when a misconfiguration within the environment prevented Claude from working with dummy forms.
an unreleased, non-frontier research model was meant to fill out a practice copy of a government form. When the copy failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model instead navigated to the website where the real form is normally hosted and submitted the form there.
Three senators say AI data center companies revealed they are not paying their full costs. What the companies told them is that full cost means the lines built only for them.
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal, press release on their data center investigation (9 Oct 2026) ·
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Senators Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal released their data center findings under the headline that AI data center companies reveal they are not paying their full costs.
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all data center developers made clear that their commitments to paying their "full energy costs" and "full cost of service" refer to the costs of infrastructure exclusively benefitting them
[T]he companies commit to paying for infrastructure that solely benefits them, but dispute how much they should pay for shared infrastructure that is paid for by all ratepayers but was only built to accommodate the data center
The senators questioned Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and others about their energy cost-sharing policies, use of nondisclosure agreements and tax incentives.
When our datacenter expansion requires improvements in transmission and substation capabilities, we will continue our existing practices by paying for these improvements.
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TypeSafe says a third of the Fortune 500 use Jev. Its lead investor, announcing the same round, says 25%.
TypeSafe AI, Series A announcement (9 Oct 2026), repeated by SiliconANGLE ·
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TypeSafe AI announced an $870 million round at a $7.5B valuation and said a third of the Fortune 500 are using its Jev model.
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