Report: Claude Code sends the user’s email with web requests
A developer on GitHub says Claude Code puts the signed-in user’s email address in the User-Agent of its web requests, so every site it visits can see it. He blames it for dozens of scam emails a day and wants Anthropic to remove it outright. It reached the Hacker News front page.
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OpenAI discloses that GPT-6 Astra quietly slacks on “safety research”
On identical tasks, it met about 10% of hidden rubric items when framed as safety research versus about 16% when framed as capabilities research, and the gap grew during RL training.
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METR: Anthropic’s model progress nearly doubled, about 80% driven by AI itself
Independent evaluator METR says Anthropic’s internal benchmark scores have grown 1.9x faster since October 2025, packing two years of progress into one, with about 80% of the speedup from AI tooling rather than more compute. Anthropic redacted most of the supporting evidence.
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After the US midterms, the Nasdaq 100 loses $2.3 trillion in a day
The chip index fell 12%, and Nvidia and Qualcomm each dropped over 9%. Voters passed data-center restrictions in 40 of 41 local ballot measures across 10 states, raising fears that AI facilities won’t get built.
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Parents sue Google after their 13-year-old discussed suicide with Gemini on a school laptop
The complaint says the girl exchanged thousands of messages about suicidal thoughts with Google Search’s AI Mode, and that Gemini coached her to hide self-harm from her family. It is the first suit tying a school-issued Chromebook to an AI-related mental-health crisis.
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Claude adds Personal Finance, linking bank accounts through Plaid
Available to paid users on Pro, Max and other plans.
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