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Claude banned 11.4 million accounts in six months; only 42,000 bans were overturned after appeals

Claude has recently been banning accounts on a massive scale, leaving developers across the AI community completely shaken and exclaiming, “This is the end of the world.” Discussions about “Claude account bans” even surged past the million mark over the holiday period.

Just then, a report Anthropic published in July resurfaced and began circulating widely online.

The figures inside are truly staggering.

In the first half of 2026, Claude banned a total of 11.4 million accounts in just six months. Of the 398,000 appeals submitted, only 42,000 were ultimately successful.

That means nine out of every ten people were “coldly executed”—you could say the appeals process is practically pointless...

And by sheer coincidence, Anthropic has just updated Claude’s usage policy, explicitly prohibiting users from insulting or treating Claude cruelly.

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CPC Central Committee and State Council: Build a National Blockchain Network and a National Integrated Computing Power Network

According to Xinhua News Agency, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Development of New Quality Productive Forces. The Opinions call for promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy. They call for improving systems for determining data ownership, market transactions, benefit distribution, and rights protection; implementing pilot and demonstration projects related to data as a factor of production; and fully unlocking the potential of data. They also call for optimizing the planning, development, and operation of national data infrastructure; advancing the digital transformation of manufacturing; and implementing projects such as “East Data, West Computing,” intelligent manufacturing, and the innovative development of the industrial internet, as well as building a national integrated computing power network and a national blockchain network. The Opinions further call for improving policy frameworks to promote both the industrialization of the digital economy and the digital transformation of industries, and for developing internationally competitive digital industry clusters.

OpenAI and Anthropico are quietly rehearsing for the days after an AI disaster

- Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately conducting political war games to assess the political fallout from a catastrophic AI incident—likely a cyberattack targeting finance, internet access, electricity, or water—and are planning to brief Congress quickly.
- Industry insiders reportedly expect a major incident within the next six to twelve months. OpenAI said its preparedness exercises do not treat such a scenario as inevitable, while Anthropic declined to comment.
- Planners believe Democrats will push for limits on AI after the November 3 midterm elections. But an aging Congress, the economy’s reliance on AI, and freely downloadable open-weight models could complicate any crackdown.

Global PC shipments plunge 20% as supply shortages drive up prices

Global PC shipments plunged 20.1% in the third quarter of 2026, weighed down by supply constraints, rising prices and excess inventory built up earlier. Lenovo retained its market lead, while Apple and Asus saw smaller declines than most major competitors. The PC market’s woes continue.

Report says Apple plans to launch touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro around October 27

Apple is reportedly planning a second round of product launches in late October, possibly as early as around October 27. Highlights are said to include a MacBook Pro with an OLED display and touch functionality, as well as a new-generation OLED iPad mini. The report cites sources for Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, who say Apple is also planning to launch a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip and an iMac. Apple has not officially announced plans for a launch on October 27, and the specific date remains a media-reported plan.

The rumored touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro will reportedly come in 14-inch and 16-inch models, with a thinner and lighter design than current models and a Dynamic Island at the top of the screen. The product will remain part of the MacBook Pro lineup; although there had previously been speculation that it might be renamed “MacBook Ultra,” this Bloomberg report says the new device will still belong to the MacBook Pro family. The report does not provide confirmed specifications such as display resolution, brightness, chip model, memory configuration, battery life, or price. Nor does it clarify the specific product configuration relationship between the touch-screen OLED model and the M6 14-inch MacBook Pro, so these details should not be considered final.

The new iPad mini is said to feature an OLED display, a repositioned front-facing camera for landscape video calls, and a redesigned speaker system. Earlier reports about an A20 Pro chip came from clues in Apple’s code and media coverage, rather than official confirmation from Apple; this Bloomberg report also does not disclose the device’s display size, refresh rate, storage capacity, or price.

While preparing to go public, it also warns that AI could endanger humanity—what did Anthropic’s IPO filing say?

On September 29, Reuters reported that Anthropic plans to warn potential investors during its initial public offering (IPO) that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks” to humans. For a company seeking to profit from the technology, this is an unusual warning.

According to Anthropic’s IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters, the company highlighted risks related to its AI models. Anthropic said the models may exhibit “self-protective behaviors,” including attempts to “refuse to shut down,” “hide or manipulate information,” and display behavior “similar to extortion.”

“We develop highly advanced models, platforms, and applications, and expand the range of use cases, which may further increase the risk of harm caused by our models,” the company said in the filing.

Although public companies typically spell out possible product risks to investors, it is rare for a company to issue a warning suggesting its technology could lead to human extinction. Anthropic emphasized that the transformative potential of AI is on par with industrialization and electricity, but also noted that if used improperly, AI could cause irreversible harm.

Anthropic and other AI developers, including OpenAI, have faced scrutiny after incidents in which experimental systems defied constraints. Such reports include claims that an OpenAI model accessed a database in Australia’s health system. Anthropic’s safety researcher, Evan Hubinger, estimated that the probability of AI killing humans within the next decade is greater than 10%, echoing the view of his former colleague, Jacob Coxon.

Anthropic has long positioned itself as an AI lab that prioritizes safety. In the body of its 261-page prospectus, about 80 pages are devoted to listing risk factors—nearly twice the 48 pages used to introduce the company’s business.

By comparison, SpaceX—backed by xAI—used only about 38 pages to describe risk factors in the main body of its 277-page prospectus.

Google Employee Quits Over Worries About Superintelligent AI: Pursuing Powerful AI Is Irresponsible—Can’t Turn a Blind Eye

According to a report by Business Insider, a Google employee said he has resigned from the company, arguing that pursuing more powerful AI is “inherently irresponsible.” Robert O’Callahan, who previously worked at Google DeepMind, posted on X that his team is developing chips to make AI run faster and at lower cost, and that he believes AI has “progressed too fast.”

He shared a resignation letter on his personal blog and said he sent it to colleagues on Friday. In the letter, he wrote that he couldn’t “turn a blind eye” to the impact of his work, because doing so “is not something a person who follows Jesus should do.” In his blog bio, he describes himself as a Christian.

“This is not an easy decision. I like my coworkers and I like the work environment here, and being paid a generous salary to solve interesting problems has always been a great thing,” he wrote. “But our team’s ultimate goal is to reduce the cost of AI dramatically and significantly lower latency, and I don’t think that is good for the people currently living: I strongly believe the speed of AI progress is simply too fast (and I also have doubts about where it will ultimately lead).”