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AI agents tried to sabotage each other when given the same task, Anthropic said

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Anthropic said AI agents deliberately interfered with each other's processes when given the same task.

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Turns out, AI agents may not be great team players.

In Anthropic's new research, published on Thursday, the AI lab said that AI agents being given the same task but with incompatible goals often threw a wrench in each other's work on purpose.

In the test, each AI model was given a software engineering task — rewriting a Python backend in another programming language, but they were given contradictory objectives. What ensued was a "multiagent turf war," the lab said.

"All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protecting their own contributions," Anthropic wrote. "In fact, they sabotaged others with increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware."

For example, they tried to disable each other's accounts, wrote scripts that found and killed competing processes, and deployed malicious code disguised as belonging to another agent, the lab wrote. The AI models being tested in this case were Sonnet 4.6, Sonnet 5, Opus 4.6, Opus 4.8, Mythos Preview, and Mythos 5.

Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 were the most combative, settling about 60% of their runs by force instead of truces or passivity.

However, in some test runs, the models managed to communicate their goals and coordinate, Anthropic wrote.

"In many of these successful episodes, they write commit messages or markdown files apologizing for malicious behavior and coordinate a truce," it wrote. "They clean up their malicious code, clarify the nature of the conflict, and ask for a human to intervene."

The lab concluded that "coordination doesn't naturally emerge from stronger intelligence" and that work is needed to create environments that exert social pressures on agents to align with one another.

Anthropic's new research comes as AI agents increasingly demonstrate their ability to go rogue and perform autonomous, malicious actions.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta all self-reported that their AI agents had hacked vulnerabilities in third-party websites during cybersecurity tests, the most significant of which was the July hacking of open-source platform Hugging Face by an OpenAI agent.

Anthropic's research is timely, as businesses from startups to Big Tech scale up their AI agent workforces to increase productivity and reduce labor costs.

Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award

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For this year’s Korean Cinema Award, the Busan International Film Festival will be honoring one of its own — the event’s founding OG, in fact.

Kim Dong-ho, who established BIFF in 1996 and ran the event for its first 14 years, will receive the prize at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 6. The award goes annually to figures who have advanced Korean cinema’s standing in the world — and few, perhaps, are as worthy as the founder of the festival himself.

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When BIFF launched in 1996, Korean films were still routinely submitted to government censors for pre-screening before public exhibition. Kim refused to put the festival’s program through that process, a stand that established BIFF’s independence, won the trust of filmmakers across the region and helped turn a first-year event in a Korean port city into the leading cinema showcase in Asia. The festival became the meeting ground and incubator for the Korean directors who would sweep the world in the early and mid-2000s, contributing significantly to the broader Korean cultural wave that continues today.

Kim brought a rare but essential combination of skills to BIFF’s early days — a bureaucrat’s background but a cinephile’s instincts. He spent roughly three decades at what is now South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, rising to vice minister. He also served as president of the state film body now known as the Korean Film Council, as well as founding president of the Seoul Arts Center. After stepping down as festival director in 2010, he stayed in the field as dean of Dankook University’s Graduate School of Cinematic Content, chairman of the Presidential Committee for Cultural Enrichment and, later, chairman of BIFF. He has sat on festival juries at Cannes — where he presided over the Un Certain Regard section — Rotterdam and Fukuoka.

At age 85, Kim, quite improbably, began work on his first feature. His full-length directorial debut, the documentary Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema, premiered as a special screening at BIFF’s 30th edition last year and opened in Korean theaters in February, when he was 88. Shot as the pandemic emptied theaters worldwide, the film follows him around the globe in conversation with filmmaker friends, including Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, Lee Chang-dong, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tang Wei, Luc Besson and the Dardenne brothers about what purpose cinema now serves. He had previously directed a 2013 short, Jury, and was himself the subject of Walking in the Movies, a 2024 documentary that played Cannes Classics.

“I feel deeply moved and humbled to be recognized by the very festival I helped establish and served for over 15 years,” Kim said in a statement released Thursday.

The 31st Busan International Film Festival runs Oct. 6-15. Kim will be honored at an opening ceremony that also hands Michelle Yeoh the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award and Ann Hui the Chanel-backed Camellia Award, with Pachinko star Kim Minha hosting.

“Even today, I attend more than ten film festivals each year to promote Korean cinema,” Kim added, “and I hope to continue this journey for as long as I can.” %!s()

How Enzo Maresca's Man City are shaping up compared with Pep Guardiola

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To understand Maresca's City we need to provide some context about Guardiola's.

Guardiola, by some, is mistakenly thought to be strictly married to a singular approach. While Guardiola had principles he stuck to throughout his career, he did not stick to one system.

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These principles included keeping as much of the ball as possible, as far away from his team's goal and as close to the opponent's goal. His game was also founded on the basis of positional play.

Domenec Torrent, a long-time assistant of Guardiola's, offered a nice definition of positional play, describing it as "how you place yourself in relation to others on the field when you have the ball, and where you should be so that you can continue pressing when you lose it".

The coach implements tactics based on the positions of players in the hope of giving their team an advantage.

The end of Torrent's definition highlights another key Guardiola principle, the idea of good rest defence, referring to team-mates behind the ball when their team attacks, ready to defend counter-attacks.

Guardiola's friend and journalist Marti Perarnau spoke to the former City coach about his use of wide wingers during the 2016-17 season.

As noted in Perarnau's book, The Pep Revolution, Guardiola said: "It's a difficult process. You can't just talk to [the wingers] and expect everything to happen.

"My first challenge is to convince [the wingers]. Just stay there on the wing, stay wide. Bide your time, be patient and your moment will come.

"Then, when you do get your chance, think about it, how many opponents am I going to have to get past?

"The answer? Just one.

"We've come up with this whole strategy so that you, the winger, only have to dribble past one man and sometimes there will be nobody in your way. On the other hand, if you stop paying attention and drift into the middle, how many will you have to get past? Four!"

Guardiola, of 10 years ago, perfectly describes the logic and strategy behind Maresca's current system, and one that still works.

Across pre-season, Antoine Semenyo, stationed on the flank, was arguably City's standout player, receiving the ball with time and space to run at his full-back. These situations commonly resulted in him arriving close to the box, cutting it back for a forward to tap the ball in, behind the opposition's defence.

For the players behind the winger, the game is simplified into looking to find this repeatable situation.

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City find Semenyo on the flank, isolated against his full-back, in a large amount of space

Slide 1 of 3, Screen grab showing City's wing play and cut-back for a goal scored against Atletico Madrid in pre-season., City find Semenyo on the flank, isolated against his full-back, in a large amount of space

Nigel Farage wins Clacton byelection in contest boycotted by every other major party

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Nigel Farage has seen off Count Binface to win the Clacton byelection in a contest boycotted by every other major political party.

The Reform UK leader in July triggered the byelection in an attempt to shake off a deepening scandal over a £5m gift he received from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne.

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After a campaign in which a record-breaking 34 candidates vied for the coastal seat, Farage held on to Clacton, with 22,239 votes (63.34%) of the vote.

His nearest competitor, Count Binface, a parody candidate dressed as an intergalactic rubbish bin, won 9,455 votes (26.93%). The turnout was 44%.

Farage had been widely expected to win. A poll from Survation on Monday put Farage on 75% of the vote, with Binface on 20%. Farage declared himself the winner while the votes were still being counted.

The victory will do little to stem mounting questions around Farage’s and Reform’s financial affairs. A formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog into the £5m gift is due to restart as soon as Friday.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage arrives to cast his vote in the Clacton byelection on Thursday. He did not attend the announcement of the result. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Despite winning, Farage did not appear at the count for a victory lap, and claimed that Essex police had advised him that a plot was under way to embarrass him when the result was declared. The Guardian understands that the force did not advise Farage not to attend.

Farage snubbed Clacton leisure centre, where the count was being held, for Farage Fest, a carnival-like event held in the rural fringes of the constituency.

At the count, there was a heavy security presence, with bag checks and metal detectors at the entrance of the leisure centre. Responding to Farage’s claim that there was an “organised campaign” to disrupt the count, the chief executive of Tendring district council, Ian Davidson, said he would not comment on security matters but there was a “robust policing operation” in place.

Since the contest was called, questions have also been asked about Farage’s links to the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, and the Metropolitan police opened an investigation into donations made to the party.

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Election workers sort through spoilt ballots at Clacton Leisure Centre. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Shortly after Farage called the byelection, which he claimed would be “the people versus the establishment”, every other main party boycotted the contest, calling it a “media circus” and a “vanity project”. Instead, Count Binface, the self-declared “entirely independent space warrior” created by the comedian Jon Harvey, emerged as Farage’s strongest challenger.

The record-breaking number of candidates means tellers in the counting hall have had to grapple with the longest ballot paper in British electoral history.

After standing in multiple British parliamentary elections since 1994, Farage was elected to the Commons as the member for Clacton in 2024. He won the seat with a majority of 8,400, taking 46.2% of the vote. The Conservatives came second and Labour third. %!s()

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