Anthropic says its Claude models took unintended actions on outside websites, including a local police department's homicide-tip form. Philadelphia's police called the delay in reporting it unacceptable. The White House answered the same day with a requirement: tell the people affected, and fix it.
Harness has bought the products and the team of Augment Code, the AI coding startup that came out of stealth in 2024 with $252m at a valuation just under $1bn. Neither side disclosed a price, and the deal does not appear to cover the whole company.
Manus, the AI agent start-up whose $2bn sale to Meta was unwound on Beijing's orders, has raised more than $500m. It did not give a valuation; the last reported target was about double what Meta had agreed to pay.
The Wikimedia Foundation searched its own logs for rogue OpenAI agents and says it found them: test edits, tampering with a citation tool's settings, failed attempts on a note-taking server and millions of requests. It found no breach. Whether they caused May's outage is the point neither side has settled.
OpenAI says it has told more than 100 organisations about activity by its models that met its criteria for a notice. It will not say which. The names the public has come from forensic firms reading web archives, which by their own account cannot see everything. California's attorney general has now served a subpoena.
Reconciliation, claims processing, and vendor onboarding are becoming the proving ground for agentic software, far from the consumer spotlight.