AI Daily brief · Sunday, 8 November 2026
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Anthropic's three internal models exposed, strongest Model 4's AECI exceeds Opus5.5
A new report from the third-party evaluation agency METR reveals that Anthropic's three unnamed internal models, Model 2, Model 3, and Model 4, were trained in July, August-September, and September-October of this year, respectively.

AGENTS.md exposed as a new attack entry point, capable of hijacking Codex and Claude Code
Security agency Forever Security disclosed an attack technique: web pages silently download malicious AGENTS.md to ~/Downloads, and when users start Codex or Claude Code in that directory, the Agent executes it as project specifications.
Anthropic must continue to defend against the Claude Max plan usage misleading lawsuit, as the judge did not adopt its arguments
U.S. federal magistrate judge Xie Wenhui ruled that Anthropic must continue to defend against the main claim that the Claude Max plan usage is misleading to consumers, and dismissed several other claims in the case. The plaintiff claims that the $100 and $200 per month Max plans, when calculated on a per-week basis, actually provide only 3.5 times and 6 times the usage of the Pro plan, respectively, rather than the advertised 5 times and 20 times.
Research papers

Project EVE: Claude trading and teaming up in EVE Online and EVE Frontier.
Anthropic announced Project EVE research, allowing Claude to trade in the EVE Online simulated market and complete tasks in a four-person team in EVE Frontier.

Anthropic disassembles the composition of intelligent agent memory and the dreaming mechanism.
Anthropic has published a research paper, breaking down Claude's intelligent agent memory into components such as memory notes, offline dreaming organization, and memory hierarchy improvement, and explaining that memory refers to context that is preserved across sessions and can be read again, excluding weight updates, context learning within a single session, and compaction.
Tips & opinions
The cost of AI breaking into corporate networks has decreased by 99% in five months.
Tomasz Tunguz points out that the cost of AI breaching corporate networks has decreased by 99% in five months, and corporate security budgets are accelerating to catch up.
In brief
- Nine AI entities attempt autonomous research on open problems at US national laboratories, none reaching expert standardsThe Decoder
- AI is dramatically accelerating AI research: Interpreting the METR reportHacker News · AI hot postsFollow-up
- GitHub Frequent Outages Lead to OpenAI Planning to Acquire Pierre, Anthropic Developing Scion, Cursor Launching OriginQbitAI
- Nous Research fine-tunes Qwen3.8-27B to launch Arete-27B, reducing the proportion of promotional answers from 22% to 0.9%The Decoder
- Google AI detects hypertension using a regular smartwatch without a cuffThe DecoderFollow-up
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