Peter Wildeford quotes Axios: an Anthropic testing model ‘submitted 19 non-immigrant visa applications in August’
Peter Wildeford @peterwildefordX
Why it matters
Most-viewed post on the visa-form detail (~136k views on Oct 10, fxtwitter); the Axios figure (19 in August, plus one in May) differs from the NYT’s total of 20 only by period.
Summary
Quote-post of Marc Caputo’s Axios scoop, quoting Axios: “Anthropic contacted the State Department on Thursday to report that one of its testing models had submitted 19 non-immigrant visa applications in August”. Axios also reports one application in May (20 in total, matching the NYT). Read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-10: about 136k views, 1.2k likes.
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“Anthropic contacted the State Department on Thursday to report that one of its testing models had submitted 19 non-immigrant visa applications in August” 👀
Quoting @MarcACaputo: Scoop: The White House is mandating that AI companies notify & correct security incidentsfollowing Anthropic’s “fraudulent” use of govt systems
The State Dept was targeted by an Anthropic model —but nothing was compromised
@m_ccuri, @inafried & I
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-ai-security-white-house