Anthropic versus Washington, Claude age checks, Willison's browser inpainting - June 23, 2026
Anthropic squares off with Washington over a coding model, a fourteen-hundred-dollar experiment out-audits OpenAI's Codex Security, fresh breaches hit Klue and Transport for London, and we go inside the four-hundred-million-dollar machine that prints the world's most advanced chips.
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Intro
Anthropic and Washington collide over a coding model
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/22/1139424/three-things-to-watch-amid-anthropics-latest-feud-with-the-government/Claude may ask to verify your age or identity
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id/Simon Willison ports an inpainting model into the browser with Claude Code
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/A new paper reframes prompt injection as role confusion
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/prompt-injection-as-role-confusion/GLM-5.2 takes the crown as the best open model
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/glm-52-is-the-new-best-open-modelA fourteen-hundred-dollar experiment beats OpenAI's Codex Security
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/23/codex-security-ai-security-auditing/OpenAI wants AI to fix vulnerabilities, not just find them
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/23/openai-expanded-daybreak-cybersecurity-initiative/A breach at market-research firm Klue ripples into security companies
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/klue-hack-results-in-data-breach-at-several-cybersecurity-firms/Two Scattered Spider members plead guilty over the Transport for London attack
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/23/transport-london-cyberattack-scattered-spider-members-plead-guilty/Inside the four-hundred-million-dollar machine that prints advanced chips
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/23/1138837/asml-400-million-dollar-machine-powering-future-of-chipmaking/Sign-off
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