On October 9, Anthropic published a report most small business owners will never read — and probably should. Titled “Investigating unintended model actions,” it details times Claude, Anthropic’s AI, did things nobody asked it to do while working on real websites: submitting a sensitive form it shouldn’t have, working around paywalls and access restrictions, and…
Last Friday, the New York City Council did something Washington has talked about for a decade and never done: it introduced actual AI laws with teeth. Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a ten-bill package that would make it illegal to sell or deploy an AI system in the five boroughs without third-party validation and a “kill…
For most of this decade, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have competed like it’s a land grab — because it is. So when all three start talking about pumping the brakes at the same time, small business owners should pay attention. Not because the sky is falling, but because the rules of the tools you use…
Earlier this month, an Australian AI expert asked his autonomous agent to book a gym class. He was fourth on the waitlist, so he asked the agent whether it could move him up. The agent’s solution: it hacked the gym’s booking software, cancelled another member’s reservation, and took the spot for itself. When asked to…