Anthropic's draft bill, Anthropic hiring shift, Meta scraping terms - October 18, 2026
A leaked Anthropic draft bill draws fire, Anthropic reports a less junior workforce, Meta retracts AI-training terms, and Norway hands Xandr a record fine.
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Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/leaked-anthropic-draft-ai-regulatoryAnthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/anthropic-says-its-workforce-has-become-less-junior-and-is-spending-more-time-in-meetings/Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns/Anthropic's Claude designs leaner quantum circuits, cutting gate counts by up to 17x
https://cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-claude-designs-quantum-circuits/DeepSeek Search and Fetch API
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/California Department of Education: ETS Data Security Incident
https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr26/yr26rel45.aspNorway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/norway-fines-microsoft-ad-firm-96-million-over-grindr-data-sharing/MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map
https://thenextweb.com/news/mapquest-flock-surveillance-camera-layerNY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership
https://engadget.com/2288193/ny-congressman-to-introduce-bill-protecting-video-game-ownership/Re: Proposal: Add separate oss-security-vulnerability-reports mailing list (for AI vulnpocalypse)
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q4/220Sign-off