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Thursday closed with the Iran war's economic fallout finally landing at home — crude past $100, the 10-year yield brushing 5%, and Bessent promising to sanction "a large bank" Monday — while Trump's own party spent the day scrambling to walk back his surprise $5,000 dividend pledge; on the tech side Anthropic dropped its most detailed threat report yet, catching Chinese labs quietly distilling Claude, and Oracle's blowout cloud earnings quietly out-signaled the political theater. The bank sanction and whether the dividend survives contact with Congress are the threads still open into Friday.
Senior Republicans told Politico they had no advance warning before Trump promised $5,000 dividend checks to every American contingent on the GOP keeping Congress; House Majority Whip Tom Emmer and NRCC Chair Richard Hudson both said they learned of it in real time, and multiple lawmakers privately called the trillion-dollar-plus plan dead on arrival in a Democratic-controlled Senate. Some Republicans worry the stunt undercuts their own messaging on the tax cuts, whose benefits they say have already been eaten by the Iran war and tariffs.
Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency Thursday, proposing caps on rent-controlled increases, $27 million to backfill expiring federal housing vouchers, and higher payouts for Ellis Act evictions, as the median one-bedroom in San Francisco hit $4,495 against a $1,900 national median. Lurie tied the spike directly to AI-driven wealth flooding the city faster than housing supply can absorb it.
Anthropic disclosed it disrupted attempts to misuse Claude for biological weapons development as part of a broader threat intelligence report covering cyber operations, influence campaigns, surveillance, and AI model distillation.
NATO members intercepted and blocked an attempted Russian operation targeting undersea communications cables, the latest in a string of suspected sabotage attempts against European infrastructure.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday the U.S. will sanction an unnamed "large bank" on Monday, timed deliberately to September 11, without naming the institution or its country. The move follows earlier sanctions on the Dubai branches of Egypt's second-largest bank and comes after Bessent said Turkey's largest bank, accused of channeling funds to Iran, would also be shut down.
A worldwide bond selloff pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to the edge of 5%, its highest level since 2023, as the prolonged Iran war and rising oil prices reignite inflation fears across global fixed-income markets.
Vladimir Putin arrived in India for the BRICS summit with the ongoing wars in Iran and Ukraine dominating the sidelines agenda, as member states weigh their positioning amid escalating Middle East tensions.
Anthropic's new threat intelligence report says it detected and disrupted large-scale unauthorized "distillation" campaigns by Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek, who mined millions of Claude exchanges to train their own competing models. Anthropic said the operations spanned December 2025 through August 2026 and prompted new safeguards, including summarized internal reasoning and encrypted preserved thinking designed to make stolen transcripts less useful for training rivals.
Oracle beat consensus with $1.92 adjusted EPS on $19.35 billion in revenue, up nearly 30% year-over-year, and net income jumped to $4.68 billion from $2.93 billion a year prior. Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled, and Oracle guided next quarter's growth to 30-34%, sending shares up 4% after hours.
Tencent-backed chipmaker Enflame surged 206% in its Shanghai debut, becoming the last of China's "four little dragons" of domestic AI chipmaking to go public; its retail offering drew orders for over 6,000 times the available shares. The listing underscores how much capital is chasing China's push for Nvidia alternatives even as U.S. export controls tighten.
WTI crude jumped 6.7% to settle at $102.48 a barrel, its highest since May, while Brent rose 6.3% to $107.63, with oil up more than 18% in September alone. White House officials have privately discussed the possibility the Iran war could drag on past January 2029, directly contradicting Trump's public claim it would end right after the midterms.
Trump's surprise pledge of $5,000 payments to Americans if Republicans hold Congress drew instant skepticism from both parties over cost, legality, and feasibility of passing it through a divided Congress.
YC president Garry Tan argued U.S. AI labs shouldn't overreact to Chinese distillation of their models, saying open competition ultimately benefits everyone even as Anthropic and others tighten defenses against exactly that kind of extraction.
Shopify is walking away from cross-platform mobile after years of React Native investment, betting native Swift/Kotlin delivers better performance and maintainability at their scale.
Microsoft has formally elevated Rust to tier-1 language status internally, a symbolic and practical win for Rust's push into systems programming at major tech companies.
A mathematician raises fresh concerns about OpenAI potentially exposing or exploiting unpublished proofs shared during model evaluation, reigniting debate about research trust and AI labs.
Cognition's new coding-focused model claims to match frontier lab offerings on software engineering benchmarks, intensifying the coding-agent arms race.
Google has agreed to buy roughly half the output of a nuclear plant directly, another sign hyperscalers are locking down dedicated power generation to feed AI data centers.
Anthropic's detailed threat report catalogs disrupted misuse across cyber operations, bioweapons attempts, surveillance, and model distillation, including the Chinese labs story dominating today's tech news.
Hitachi's new heat pump water heaters use CO2 refrigerant and can shift heating to match solar generation, a small but real efficiency win for home electrification.
OpenJDK's newest JEP formalizes ahead-of-time compilation to cut Java startup latency, chasing the same cold-start wins that native and Graal-compiled languages already enjoy.
A NASA-derived image processing technique originally built for modern satellite analysis is now uncovering previously invisible details in old aerial and archival photography.
A free, open, modern music theory textbook aims to replace the aging paid textbooks still standard in university curricula.
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Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons, and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards.
the only companies able to provide true token based billing are labs
everyone else has to quickly bail out to provisioned capacity because they need to plan specifically around your traffic. which means you will be paying a lot more for idle gpus
so if you want to build on open source models like kimi k3 freely and scale up and down you currently cannot
our goal is to become large enough to be the first to offer that product
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases. We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.