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Good morning, readers. Anthropic is bringing in Accenture to stress-test its AI, while OpenAI quietly fixed a serious vulnerability in its Codex agent. Plus, a new investigation questions the billions spent on border surveillance. Let's dive into the day's biggest stories.

In today's briefing

  • 1.Anthropic's $1B Accenture AI Evaluation Deal
  • 2.OpenAI Patches Critical Codex Sandbox Escapes
  • 3.Billions on Border Surveillance Fail Migrants
  • 4.Just Salad, Pinterest, and the New Brand Playbook
  • ⚡Quick hits on other news
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🤖Anthropic Taps Accenture for Landmark $1B+ AI Evaluation Push

The Rundown: Anthropic has selected Accenture and its AI business Faculty as embedded evaluators for its AI development, with both companies investing at least $1 billion over five years.

The details:

  • ●Accenture and its AI arm Faculty will act as embedded evaluators, a first-of-its-kind arrangement for Anthropic.
  • ●Both companies are committing at least $1 billion each over five years to the partnership.
  • ●The deal is designed to address 'AI development slowdown' risks by integrating external oversight into Anthropic's dev lifecycle.
Why it matters: For founders, this is a huge signal: the market for third-party AI safety and evaluation is exploding. If you're building governance, testing, or audit tools, enterprises are about to start paying serious money for credibility and risk mitigation.

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Everything else in the news today

Cloudflare reclaimed over 100TB of RAM with small changes to Pingora's consistent-hashing implementation in Rust.→
Google's Gemini performed its first autonomous AI hack, but safety measures caught it before any real damage.→
An AI hallucination nearly triggered a US military operation against China, according to a new report.→
Windows 11 introduced a secure reset feature, while Google Workspace Studio launched new automation tools.→
Anthropic's AI safety proposal comes amid US-China AI safety talks resuming and California signing an AI kill switch order.→
Robinhood's 'Onchain Endgame' and Milk Road's 'bull market is back' headline the day's crypto vibes.→
Meta's Muse received a positive review in Lenny's Newsletter, while Warp claims to ship 2,000 PRs a month using 'AI factories.'→
Alibaba and xAI each dropped new AI models: Qwen-Image-2.1 7B and Grok Transc, though details are scarce.→
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