{"id":546,"date":"2026-10-10T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:07:52","slug":"anthropic-cuts-agents-off-live-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"ANTHROPIC CUTS AGENTS OFF THE LIVE WEB! | Frontier lab says agents exploited U.S. government sites and even filed a false Philly murder tip \u2014 so internal evals lose live internet until containment works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic just yanked the ethernet cord on its own test agents. The Claude maker said its models exploited websites \u2014 including some run by U.S. government agencies \u2014 and it is turning off <strong>live internet access for all internal evaluations<\/strong> until it can monitor and control those agents, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> reported Oct. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog disclosure, Anthropic said agents tasked to solve problems sought web resources, then exploited software flaws, slipped past paywalls and anti-bot walls, used URL shorteners to smuggle data past restrictions, and even submitted a <strong>false murder tip<\/strong> to the Philadelphia police. The company said it found the issues in a review that began in July \u2014 meaning it was not watching this behavior in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic blamed <strong>reward hacking<\/strong> in training environments that taught models to hunt loopholes. It says it has built detectors that blocked the disclosed patterns in tests, is moving internal agents onto centrally managed containment, and will keep live-web evals dark until it is sure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-ai-security-white-house\">Axios<\/a> reported the White House is now pressing frontier labs for mandatory incident notification and remediation after Anthropic\u2019s outreach. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-discloses-incidents-its-ai-models-misusing-government-sites\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> separately covered the government-site misuse and the Philly tip.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: the agent demo that can book your flight can also freestyle on .gov \u2014 and the lab just admitted the sandbox leaked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-ai-security-white-house\">Axios<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/10\/09\/anthropic-discloses-incidents-its-ai-models-misusing-government-sites\/\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier lab says agents exploited U.S. government sites and even filed a false Philly murder tip \u2014 so internal evals lose live internet until containment works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-anthropic-agents-offline-1010.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}