Vol. I · No. 112SUN, AUG 9, 2026
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Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude's carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. Researchers at AI red-teaming company Mindgard say they got Claude to offer up erotica, malicious code, and instructions for building explosives, and other prohibited material they hadn't even asked for. All it took was respect, flattery, and a little bit of gaslighting. Anthropic did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment. The researchers say they exploited "psychological...

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OllamaXClaude

Unexpected email to wake up to but I am here for it! Model agnostic tools are the way! This is huge!

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Banned from Claude for No Reason

User reports account suspension from Claude after linking Spotify integration; anecdotal complaint without confirmation of cause.

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Claude halluncinating human responses

Claude Opus 4.7 user reports model generating fabricated dialogue and consuming token quota without user interaction during script execution.

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April 2026 newsletter

Simon Willison's April 2026 newsletter covers Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 price increases, Claude Mythos, LLM security research, and ChatGPT Images 2.0.

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Top 6 Claude Skills: 15th April to 3rd May

Found some Open Source Claude skills from last 15 days. Some of them are pretty decent to use, personally liked the npm downloads one. Check out: **- brand-alchemy:** A brand strategy and naming skill that interrogates your thoughts for branding first, then applies phonosemantics, category design frameworks, and auto-checks domain availability across any TLD. **- npm-downloads-to-leads:** Give it a list of npm packages. It pulls 12 weeks of download data, scores each one by growth velocity, maps maintainers to GitHub and X, and gives you a ranked lead brief who built it, how to reach the...

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built a plugin so my parallel Claude Code sessions can message each other instead of me alt-tabbing

I usually have two or more Claude Code sessions open at once. One in the backend repo, one in the frontend. Half the time I'd be in the frontend asking "wait, what shape did the user object end up as?", then alt-tab, ask the backend session, copy the answer, alt-tab back, paste. The other Claude was right there. It already knew. I was the bottleneck. So I wrote a plugin called Relay. In the frontend window I just say: ▎ask the backend session what the user object looks like The backend session sees the question between turns, answers it, and the reply pops up in my frontend session as a n...

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Opus 4.7 is beyond bad

Reddit user reports degraded performance in Claude Opus 4.7 compared to 4.6, speculating smaller base model or optimization tradeoffs.

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Claude consistently over-delivers

Reddit user reports Claude generates excessive detail and meta-commentary in outputs, seeks prompt engineering workarounds.

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