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Anthropic adds plethora of legal plugins, datasets to Claude, Cowork

Large Legal Model; Anthropic makes a push for legal shops and students. (Picture: shutterstock)
While law firms lead the line in AI adoption, Anthropic’s services just got a whole lot better at practicing law, with connections to a whole host of legal databases.

—It’s sort of like giving an engineer a legal degree, Mark Pike, Anthropic’s associate general counsel, tells Business Insider.

Claude now connects to iManage, NetDocuments, Docusign, Ironclad, and Thomson Reuters, while Cowork has plugins for commonly used legal databases like CourtListener, Definely, Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw, Courtroom5, and Box.

The push lets Claude «review contracts, surface case law» and draft legal documents, complete with source references, Anthropic says.

It also has prebuilt skills to do legal work on specialized topics like employment, privacy and product law, Business Insider writes.

— Claude is making a deeper push into knowledge work, with the legal sector emerging as one of its most significant and fastest-growing industries, an Anthropic spokesman told TechCrunch.

Read more: Claude legal, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Reuters.

OpenAI’s security tools gets Codex Security and a new brand: «Daybreak»

Security for the (vetted) masses is the promise of Daybreak (Picture: OpenAI)
Billed as the answer to Anthropic’s Mythos model, the new branding is basically just a suite of the models released last week — such as ChatGPT-5.5-Cyber — and the new Codex Security.

— Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across the security flywheel to help make the world safer for everyone, OpenAI writes.

The more advanced models require a screening of users, and the better they get, the more serious the vetting.

— Because those same capabilities can be misused, Daybreak pairs expanded defensive capability with trust, verification, proportional safeguards, and accountability.

Also new is that OpenAI now offers a vulnerability scan as a way into the ecosystem, available for businesses of all sizes and systems.

Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, The Verge.

OpenAI launches Deployment Company to reach more enterprises

Looking for some sweet enterprise magic, OpenAI forms «DeployCo.» (Picture: Shutterstock)
In an effort to increase enterprise adoption of their tools, the new company will be funded by $4 billion and will work by embedding Forward Deployed Engineers into companies looking to start using AI.

The issue at hand is not simply installing and using the OpenAI chatbots, but in identifying datasets, infrastructure and workflows to hook up and where AI can be most impactful, OpenAI writes.

The Deployment Company will be joined by 150 experienced engineers from Tomoro, which OpenAI just acquired. Tomoro does just what the new company is tasked with — turning AI into a strategic advantage.

On the investment side, the company counts Bain & Company, Capgemini, and McKinsey. Together with a whole host of founding partners, including SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, they will be covering more than 2,000 enterprises around the world as consultants and integrators.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Reuters, Axios.

Anthropic’s Claude no longer threatens with blackmail when told to turn off

Stories of AI being self-preserving and evil were the culprit, Anthropic believes.
Remember the big news that Claude 4 would blackmail engineers at risk from turning it off? That was revealed from alignment testing in June, 2025.

But as of Claude Haiku 4.5, from October 2024, blackmail is no longer an issue, Anthropic says.

They believe they traced the issues to internet text portraying AI as evil and self-preserving, but honestly, that is a fairly common cultural trope.

Reinforcement training didn’t help the issue, training on «examples of safe behavior» didn’t work — but introducing a dataset of ethically challenging situations did.

Then they introduced lots of fictional stories of AI behaving in aligned ways and further dropped the blackmail instances by a factor of three, then adding system prompts targeting «harmlessness» did the rest.

Anthropic does say that this does not eliminate the risk entirely: «our auditing methodology is not yet sufficient to rule out scenarios in which Claude would choose to take catastrophic autonomous action.»

Read more: Anthropic’s research, on X.com, TechCrunch, and Business Insider.

OpenAI updates its voice models with GPT-5-level reasoning in API

The new models are only available to developers so far. (Picture: Adobe)
The new models out today in the API are GPT-Realtime-2 that can handle requests and do stuff for you, while being a natural conversation partner.

Realtime-Translate can handle live translations from 70+ input languages into 13 output languages and keep up with the speaker.

While Realtime-Whisper is a transcriber that turns speech into text as it happens.

Sam Altman notes that it’s mostly young people that prefer voice interactions with ChatGPT, while older people like to type.

Realtime-2 is priced at a whopping $32 for 1 million input tokens and $64 for 1M outputs. The other models are priced cheaply.

The models are only available in the API so far, so no general access within ChatGPT. They can, however, be added to apps in Codex.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, on X.com, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch.

GPT-5.5 -Cyber is out in «limited preview,» available to vetted defenders


Two models models are launching today; GPT-5.5 with «Trusted Access for Cyber» that requires some vetting to get into. It can handle defensive security, do code review, malware analysis and patch validation.

GPT-.5.5-Cyber requires stronger verification and does specialized workflows, red teaming, penetration testing and controlled validation.

GPT-5.5 Cyber was earlier found on par with Anthropic’s Mythos model, that has been spooking the establishment lately.

The vetting approach for the Cyber model has been «informed by conversations with cybersecurity and national security leaders across federal and state government and major commercial entities,» OpenAI says.

Read more: OpenAI’s blog, CNBC, Axios.

Codex gets a plugin for Chrome

The new Chrome extension lets Codex do everything you do on Google’s Chrome browser — from repetitive browser work to complex data entry work.

The plugin can run code in the background, automatically chooses the right tool for the job, and can be used for things like testing web apps, getting context from multiple tabs and launching DevTools.

It’s available on macOS and Windows in all regions «except the EU and UK.»

Anthropic grew 80-fold last quarter, secures compute deal with SpaceX

Power hungry: Anthropic’s growth has been off the charts last quarter. (Picture: generated)
The AI lab was preparing for its usual 10x growth rate this quarter, but the numbers made a huge, unexpected jump, CNBC reports

— That is the reason we have had difficulties with compute, says CEO Dario Amodei, revealing their strain on infrastructure since at least April.

The company has now made a deal with SpaceX for instant access to their entire Colossus 1 supercomputer, consisting of some 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, totaling more than 300 megawatts.

Using all of that capacity should immediately improve access for Anthropic’s users, and they are already doubling rate limits for the Pro and Max plans, and is «considerably» increasing API rates, while removing «peak hours» restrictions.

Elon Musk says he approved the deal after evaluating Anthropic’s altruism, that xAI will be known as SpaceXAI and that they have already moved Grok training to the Colossus 2 cluster.

Read more: SpaceX announcement, Anthropic’s announcement, Anthropic on X, CNBC, Engadget.

More frontier labs agree to submit pre-release models to US Commerce Dept.

It’s not vetting per se, but a collaboration between the labs and the government. (Picture: nist.gov)
Google, Microsoft and xAI will be joining Anthropic and OpenAI in submitting their early models for testing by the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

— CAISI will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security, the Center says in a release.

This program was started under the Biden administration in 2024, and AI labs «frequently provide CAISI with models that have reduced or removed safeguards,» the National Institute of Standards and Technology says.

It was reported yesterday that the White House was considering some kind of vetting of early models before release to the public sector, while giving the Pentagon a first shot at «useful» cyber capabilities that might arise.

— Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications, says CAISI Director Chris Fall.

Read more: NIST’s release, Reuters and Axios.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, with more concise answers

No more five-page essays when you need a simple answer. (Picture: generated)
Replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as the «daily driver» for hundreds of millions of users, the new model touts major changes to common gripes.

For those fed up with three-page essay responses to simple questions, the new model should offer «clearer, more concise answers,» with «stronger» and «tighter» responses that are more «to-the-point.» This should reduce the need for frequent follow-up questions, OpenAI says.

OpenAI says the new Instant will be «more effective» at leveraging history from previous chats, files and Gmail. It should also be showing you its sources when it uses memories.

Hallucinations are supposedly also way down, reducing the rate by 52.5% in internal tests, while inaccurate responses dropped by 37.3%.

The model will become the default option for most ChatGPT users on the Plus and Pro tiers, and is rolling out «over the next two days.» Other plans should get it «soon.»

Read more: OpenAI’s introduction, X.com thread, The Verge, TechCrunch.

The White House reportedly discussing vetting AI models ahead of release

The White House says any Executive Order will come from the President himself. (Picture: Adobe)
The Trump administration has appartently been spooked by the cyber capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos model and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 — and is considering an Executive Order to vet new models ahead of release, Axios and the NYT reports.

These models have both been limited for their ability in cybersecurity, and point to a not-so-distant future where such capabilities might be widely available.

To that end, the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director held all of two meetings last week, with tech and cyber companies on the one hand and with trade groups in tech on the other, according to Axios.

The ONCD has also been discussing safety testing for federal AI deployments, by assessing the security exposure of AI models before rolling out to the public sector.

The NYT reported on this first, and is saying that there might be a safety review for new models, while giving the Pentagon the first shot at eventual «useful» cyber capabilities, but would not block their release.

Any discussion on «potential executive orders is speculation,» a White House official told Axios.

Read more: Axios and the New York Times.

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman reveals $30 billion stake

ChatGPT has been a lucrative endeavor for those at the top. (Picture: Shutterstock)
«The compensation was certainly secondary to the mission,» Brockman said in court yesterday, according to NBC News.

He was being questioned at the Musk trial by lawyer Steven Molo, asking «You just happen to be $30 billion richer?»

The OpenAI President also holds a stake in Sam Altman’s family fund and chip company Cerebras, which is a significant supplier to OpenAI, Reuters reports.

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI in a California court, arguing the startup he co-founded has abandoned its altruistic non-profit mission and going on an «enrichment spree» on a for-profit basis. He seeks to paint the executives as greedy.

OpenAI counters that Musk is driven by resentment of their success and an obsession to control the company. The trial is ongoing.

Read more: Trial notes by NBC News, Reuters, Business Insider, and Wired.

OpenAI debuts «pets» for Codex — and they are actually useful

Little Finder guy from Petdex.
Codex is pretty capable in itself, but sometimes you wish you could get status messages while it is working in the background, and maybe get it with a cute little mascot.

This «problem» has now been solved by OpenAI, by letting you use customizable «pets,» or mascots that float on top of your desktop and gives you useful status updates from Codex at work.

They can show you active threads, tell you whether Codex is running, waiting for input, or if anything needs your attention — at a glance, from different apps.

They can also be quite cute and the possibilities are basically endless.

It is even possible to make the little Finder guy, or download it from Petdex. There are also avatars for Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Goku, and a goblin and Clippy on Codex-pets.org.

Read more: Codex developers page, intrdouction on X.com, Engadget, Mashable, 9to5Mac.

The Oscars move to protect human authorship in new rules targeting AI use

Even if using AI, there must be human creative authorship. (Picture: Oscars.org)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just posted their rulebook for the 2026 Oscars and in it, they state that all movies under consideration must be human authored — while allowing some creative AI use.

Eligibility for the actors awards is that they are officially listed on the credits of the movie and that the role is «demonstrably performed by humans,» they unequivocally say.

The screenwriting awards also establishes that works must be credited and «human authored,» so no AI allowed there, either.

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GPT-5.5 found on par with Mythos, with OpenAI to limit access to Cyber version

It took about three weeks for a competing model to hit parity with Mythos. (Picture: Adobe)
After a major research paper by the UK’s AI Security Institute found GPT-5.5 a little better than Mythos, Sam Altman moved to limit access to the Cyber version of the model.

The paper probes «vulnerability research and exploitation against realistic targets and modern mitigations» through rigorous tests, and found GPT-5.5 had a pass rate of 71.4%, compared to Mythos’ 68.6% on the most advanced evaluations.

According to the AISI, their test suite proves that Mythos is not a one-off act of brilliance, but part of a wider trend for frontier models. They say «we should expect further increases in cyber capability from models in the near future, potentially in quick succession.»

At the same time, Sam Altman posted on x.com that OpenAI will indeed follow Anthropic’s lead on limiting access to GPT-5.5-Cyber to «critical cyber defenders:»

— We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for cyber; we want to rapidly help secure companies/infrastructure, Altman wrote.

Read more: The AI Security Institute, Altman’s x post, TechCrunch. Discussion on r/Singularity.