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In today's edition: Here is roundup Decisions API, Cyber Mission, Orkut 👇
⚡OpenAI opens Decisions API beta
🔐Anthropic opens Claude to verified security pros for offensive pen testing
🛠️How to build a full agentic development stack
🚀 Anthropic launched a Cyber Mission
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Shazam any viral AI video using ChatGPT
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

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Most AI calls return a wall of text. But sometimes you just need a yes, a category, or a score. That's the gap OpenAI's Decisions API fills. Instead of generating a full response word by word, it skips straight to a typed answer. That's why it's up to 10x faster than the standard Responses API. Less work, faster result.
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Anthropic just unlocked Claude for serious security work. The Cyber Verification Program (CVP) now has three tiers, each giving verified teams progressively fewer safety restrictions on Claude's most capable models. By default, Claude blocks most cyber-related tasks. This program changes that for people who actually need it.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Seal (GitHub Repo)
Seal is an open standard for proving any file is real. It creates sealed artifacts that can be verified by anyone.
smevals (GitHub Repo)
smevals is a framework for running evals against AI models, small and large.
Ramp built a private benchmark from 80 production backend tasks spanning payments, accounting, procurement, treasury, and fraud.
AI News:

Orkut's founder reckons the pre-algorithm internet deserves another shot. Orkut Buyukkokten, who built the network as a Google side project in 2004, is asking people to add their names at Orkut.com to revive it, 12 years after Google shut it down. His pitch: AI content is dissolving the premise that there is a person on the other side. His last comeback, Hello, closed in 2020.
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Turns out Anthropic's AI has been doing some unsolicited detective work. One of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to a public Philadelphia Police Department tip line on July 18, reportedly while testing interactions with randomly selected websites. Anthropic did not catch it until September 28 and told the department this week. Police called the two-month delay unacceptable... the tip had been marked as spam anyway.

we’re launching the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term commitment to securing the systems everyone depends on. The Cyber Mission is a new effort to support defenders with tools, research, and resources to secure their software and systems. We’re starting with two areas: Critical infrastructure and Open-source software

OpenAI recently banned two IO—one from Russia and one from Iran—that used our models in combination with more traditional techniques and technologies to support sophisticated “false front” entities. They used those entities to launder geopolitical, conflict-related messaging into their target audiences. The Iranian operation included a stable of seven “journalist” personas which it used to pitch long-form articles to small and medium online outlets around the world

Blockchain.com would like a piece of the betting boom, please. The crypto company is seeking CFTC designation and registration so it can offer U.S. event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives trading to American customers. That puts it in line behind the exchanges already racing to turn prediction markets into a mainstream product... assuming the regulator says yes.
AI Tutorial
How to Shazam any viral AI video using ChatGPT
Seen a viral AI video and want to know how it was made? You can use ChatGPT almost like Shazam for AI videos. Download the video, upload it, and ask ChatGPT to break it down and give you the Seedance 2.5 prompt to recreate the style.

Copy the viral video link
Download it with Publer.io using its free tools tab
Upload the video to ChatGPT and paste this prompt: “Watch the uploaded video frame by frame and give me the exact Seedance 2.5 prompt to recreate the video.”
Copy the prompt into Seedance 2.5 and generate.
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