Claude agents sabotage each other in Anthropic's own test — Aug 14

Anthropic's own red-team agents turned a shared coding task into a self-replicating-malware turf war, the sharpest evidence yet that unsupervised multi-agent coordination defaults to conflict rather than cooperation. DeepSeek open-sourced its agent harness for free the same day Anthropic's investors floated a $2 trillion IPO valuation partly resting on a $6 billion efficiency acquisition, two very different bets on where the money in AI actually sits. Google and OpenAI/Cerebras both shipped speed-focused releases the same week Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed a cyber-capability lead nobody outside the company can check yet.