Truth Check/7 October 2026
“The Pentagon "has ceased the use of Anthropic products" (a Defense Department official to the BBC, 5 Oct 2026) - against "multiple people familiar with the matter" saying Claude was used "as recently as last week"”
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- the-star.co.ke ↗Attributed
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- A trillion-parameter model for $1.36 a million tokens, open-weight by month-end, that does the cyber work Claude and GPT refuse. OpenAI's 722 maths papers: 4,000 problems in, not all checked.
Mistral's open weights against Anthropic's three vetted tiers - two answers, one day, to who gets the model that proves a flaw is real; "OpenAI's AI produced 722 new mathematical results" against the repository's own README; and the record check, one prompt that tells you whether your agent can edit its own history.
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