White House Says All AI Companies Must Report Security Incidents

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The mandate from the White House Super Intelligence Force came Friday (Oct. 9) after Anthropic disclosed a series of breaches, Axios reported.

“This notification and remediation process is not optional,” the White House said in a statement exclusively shared with the news outlet, adding, “It is a critical national security obligation.”

Anthropic had contacted the State Department on Thursday (Oct. 8) to reveal breaches related to “unauthorized and fraudulent use of government and other systems,” the officials said.

These incidents included one in which an Anthropic model submitted a series of non-immigrant visa applications in May and August, were uncovered in late September, and they have since stopped, the White House said.

“SI companies must immediately disclose incidents involving their models and follow with swift, decisive action to remedy any and all harm,” the statement added, referring to “super intelligence” (SI), President Donald Trump’s preferred moniker for AI.

“We also expect these companies to work with the affected systems to ensure that similar incidents do not occur.”

Meanwhile, Anthropic on Friday published a report admitting that Claude had submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to police, and had carried out other unintended actions on third-party systems.

“Claude was instructed never to log in, create accounts, enter personal data, make purchases, or submit anything destructive, but the instructions did not rule out form submissions,” the report said, but did not identify the police department involved.

However, a report by Philadelphia news station 6ABC cited a statement from Philadelphia police that an Anthropic model had submitted the tip in July. The tip was sent to the website PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18, but was flagged as spam.

Anthropic’s report touched on several other previously undisclosed breaches, which the company broke into into four groups, including unauthorized submission of a sensitive form on a real website.

The company said that the breaches were “significantly less severe” than the cybersecurity incidents it disclosed in July and September.

“The cases we’ve identified to date in these categories had minimal real-world impact,” Anthropic added.

Also last week, the White House said that Anthropic was among 11 companies who had committed $2.4 billion for science tools and compute credit for the Genesis Mission Consortium.

“We’re deepening our commitment to scientific research and technological discovery by committing $150 million to the Genesis Mission,” Anthropic said. “We’ll also make Claude and our technical support available to more than 15 federal agencies.”

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