- Anthropic opens the files on global Claude misuse
- Rowan’s Corner: I used Astra to redo my wardrobe
- A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT Work
- DeepSeek turns up the pressure on AI pricing
Anthropic opens the files on global Claude misuse
Image source: AnthropicThe Rundown: Anthropic published its latest Threat Report, detailing the most notable cases of Claude misuse it disrupted over the last eight months, including bioweapon flags, espionage, and acts of Chinese AI labs serving Claude in place of their own model.The details: - Anthropic named seven Chinese labs behind distillation efforts, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Xiaomi, leaning on thousands of fraudulent accounts.
- Moonshot and DeepSeek even served Claude to their customers in some instances and passed it off as their own model, then used responses for training.
- Five biology cases from scientists using Claude raised flags for possible weapons applications, but Anthropic said it “does not assert that they intended harm.”
- One operation in Yemen used Claude Code to build guidance software for a rocket, with the actor going back to Claude for advice after the test-flight failed.
- Another consultant built Mali's spy agency a system aiming to watch 25M phone lines, with similar surveillance attempts banned in Iran, China, and more.
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I used Astra to redo my wardrobe
Rowan: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model came out last week to ChatGPT paid plans, and I’ve been having an absolute blast pushing it to its limits (and waiting for limits to reset…).The capabilities that make it genuinely feel like a step up are its computer use, visual consistency, long one-prompt jobs -- and, to my pleasant surprise, personal life use cases.One personal use case that is improving my life is getting Astra to redesign my entire wardrobe and give me a system for picking clothes based on real-time local weather. For quick context, I wear a lot of black, usually a black T-shirt and jeans. It works in tech, but I've been trying to level up my wardrobe. The problem is that my absolute worst nightmare is a closet full of clothes creating more clutter in my brain every day when picking an outfit.So I systematized it (tech nerd brain, can't help it). One outfit per day of the week, per season, plus gym and lounge: 30 looks total, everything hung up and ready.Astra turned that idea into an app. I gave it full-body portraits, my sizes, my colors, some niche details about my style, and a master prompt, and it generated 30 looks with 70 try-on images where I'm the model in every photo, pulling real-time local weather so the daily pick changes with what's outside.The virtual try-on is genuinely incredible. If I can't find a piece online, I update the model, and it rebuilds the wardrobes.I posted my exact step-by-step and full master prompt in our Workflow Hub. Hope it’s useful to those in a similar boat.AI TRAINING
A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT WorkThe Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to set up a ChatGPT Work project for a recurring workflow, processing the work once and then automating it.Step-by-step:- Create a local folder with a two-digit prefix. In ChatGPT desktop, open New chat > Work > Choose project > New project, name it, and select that folder
- Tell ChatGPT about your project and ask it to propose a structure. We used it to process meeting notes and turn those into action items and weekly plans
- Now add in some input documents and tell ChatGPT to process them once
- Once it's done, tell it to create three useful automations that run on a schedule to automate this processing
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DeepSeek turns up the pressure on AI pricing
Image source: DeepSeekThe Rundown: Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released V4.1-Flash, an efficient new open-weight model that edges out systems like Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on several agentic, coding, and cyber benchmarks at extremely low price points.The details: - Flash runs at about a quarter of DeepSeek V4-Pro's per-token price and still outscores it across the board, now acting as the company’s default model.
- V4.1 scored a 40 on AA’s Intelligence Index, still well behind the frontier, but showing strong results in agentic, coding, and cyber benchmarks.
- Pricing comes in at just $0.15 / 0.60 per million tokens, with DeepSeek publishing the model’s weights on Hugging Face with an MIT License for download.
- Flash joins Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash as the two strongest intelligence systems in their price range, with DeepSeek still set to release larger models in the new family.
“I built Show Hole to solve my family's classic streaming problem: we spend too much time deciding what to watch, and the answer changes depending on who is actually on the couch.We each have different tastes, but the more interesting problem is that our tastes overlap differently in different combinations. I watch one kind of thing with my spouse, my spouse watches something different with our kid, and my kid and I have our own lane too. Most recommendation tools flatten that into one account profile, one watch history, or broad genre buckets, so they miss the real context of a household.Show Hole treats people and viewing contexts as first-class citizens. It recommends titles “in the vein of” something we liked, filters recommendations to the streaming services we actually subscribe to, avoids titles that the people present have already seen or vetoed, and explains why a recommendation fits tonight. I designed the app using Claude Design, then used those designs with Claude Code to build it.”See Rich’s full workflow here. How do you use AI? Tell us for a chance to be featured.
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