Quoting The New York Times

# A quote from The New York Times Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/10/the-new-york-times/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/10/the-new-york-times/) 10th October 2026 > Anthropic detailed the activity of its A\.I\. agents in[a blog post](https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions)on Friday, without naming the targeted websites\. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A\.I\. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the State Department’s website\. All the applications were incomplete and were not processed, they said\. —[The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/technology/anthropic-rogue-ai-agents.html),Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept\. Website Posted[10th October 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/10/)at 2:04 am ## Recent articles - [A new feature for my blog, built using my voice](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/)\- 9th October 2026 - [Claude Haiku 5\.5](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/claude-haiku-5-5/)\- 7th October 2026 - [We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/)\- 3rd October 2026 - [OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/)\- 29th September 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[10th October 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/10/)\. [ai2,274](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[generative\-ai2,016](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1,982](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[anthropic347](https://simonwillison.net/tags/anthropic/)[accidental\-cyberattacks20](https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/)