Has AI Cooked Gaming?

Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nadella pushed for an AI “emergency brake,” and AI-ported games drew DMCAs.

• Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (TechCrunch)
• An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder through a Philadelphia police web form on July 18; it was flagged as spam, and police called the two-month delay in detecting and reporting it unacceptable (6abc)
• Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC’s N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system” (The Verge)
• “Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn’t be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (X)
• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an “emergency brake”: containment from the start, tamper-proof records of model actions, and a way for an authorized person to pause or shut down a model mid-task (TechCrunch)
• Google unveils the $180 Fitbit Edge, featuring an oval, 1.34" display and shipping October 27, replacing the Fitbit Charge 6 and discontinuing the Charge line (Bloomberg)
• Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well (Kotaku)
• Activision hit vibe-coded classic Call of Duty browser ports, including Black Ops and Black Ops II, with DMCA takedown notices, according to developer Luckey Faraday (XDA Developers)

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