Claude users complain automated safety checks trigger refusals

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells Decoder he sees AI as either a longevity breakthrough or a nuclear-scale threat, and discusses data centers, privacy, and Trump ahead of the midterms.

Business and Professions Code section 6068.1 will require California attorneys to disclose use of generative AI in documents, per a r/LawFirm thread. The poster notes most of SB 574 restates existing duties — confidentiality, verifying citations and accuracy.

AI Engineer posted a workshop session arguing benchmarks don't predict how a model behaves inside a real app, so swapping models in and testing does. Speaker Pamela Fox, a principal cloud-focused engineer, leads the comparison across GPT-5.5, Kimi, DeepSeek and Mistral.

Databricks is doubling down on its New York R&D hub at 5 Bryant Park, opened earlier this year, positioning the office as a premier AI talent hub.

Norforge found the attacker orchestrated agents via exposed instances of Cairn, an open-source "general-purpose problem-solving engine," hitting companies in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. Successful breaches took about 23 hours, and Norforge flagged more than 20 exposed Cairn instances as likely malicious.