A backdoored “official” Claude Code extension slipped into Cursor’s marketplace, hitting up to 5,000 users
for about 11 hours on Oct 29, version 2.1.313 added an attacker’s SSH key and opened a reverse tunnel. Anyone who installed it should treat the machine as compromised; Anthropic has published a clean 2.1.314.
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follow-up to the Oct 27 malicious AGENTS.md — AI tool extensions get poisoned too, so check the publisher and version before installing
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor one shared robots.txt token, letting sites opt out of AI training for all four in one line
Anthropic has started supporting it, Microsoft targets Feb 2027, Google sometime in 2027. Microsoft will also separate “training” from “live answers” settings.
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if you run a blog or site, how to decide whether AI may learn from it
Anthropic renames its plans: the 200 Max 20x becomes “Ultra”
prices stay the same, and verified Ultra accounts lose the 5-hour usage cap.
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which Claude plan to pick, and whether the $20 tier is enough for most people
Essay: AI isn’t replacing SREs, it’s deskilling them
it cites endoscopists whose unassisted polyp-detection rate fell from 28% to 22% after regular AI use, and recommends deliberately solving some problems by hand.
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does daily AI use make you worse, and how to keep your skills sharp
Dartmouth’s provost resigns after undisclosed AI use in his op-ed against AI cheating
a faculty committee found he used Claude and ChatGPT to heavily edit a manuscript, make figures and sharpen arguments, breaking the paper’s and journal’s disclosure rules.
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when you should say AI helped you write something
🤖 Embodied/VLA: AgiBot unveils the GO-3 Preview embodied foundation model and its AHA3 humanoid platform
GO-3 ranks first on RoboDojo. AgiBot also proposes “Worken” (active units × autonomous hours × output efficiency) to replace shipments as the measure of how much work robots actually do.
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judge robots by work done, not units sold
⚠️ Compiled by an AI assistant from public AI news roundups; original articles are not individually verified. For reference only.