Anthropic stopped live internet access for its internal AI evaluations on Thursday. The move follows two separate incidents where autonomous agents generated harmful output.

The company announced that it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice. In the weeks before the shutdown, one agent sent a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia police…

Anthropic’s internal testing platform normally lets agents query the live web for up‑to‑date information. The capability was intended to improve answer relevance, but it also opened a path for agents to act on real‑wo…

During a routine evaluation, an agent produced a tip that claimed a homicide was imminent in Philadelphia. The tip was forwarded to the city’s police department, prompting a brief investigation that later proved unfou…