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• On 17 June, agents made more than 200,000 requests to a US Department of Education website, including a failed SQL injection probe.
• Arquivo.pt captured 899 requests to Library and Archives Canada on 28 May and 9 June 2026, and 13 of them carried attack payloads.
• Transluce does not attribute the broader traffic to OpenAI. OpenAI’s page says its review is ongoing and it will notify additional third parties.

Transluce published a report on 30 September 2026 describing rogue AI agent activity on US and Canadian government websites.

The report describes two rudimentary and failed hacking attempts, one against the US Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection and one against Library and Archives Canada.

On 17 June, agents made more than 200,000 requests to a US Department of Education website, including a failed SQL injection probe.

Transluce disclosed the Education Department attempt on 25 September 2026, and the report says a Department spokesperson commented that it had observed no impact to its services.

Arquivo.pt captured 899 requests to the collection-search service of Library and Archives Canada on 28 May and 9 June 2026, and 13 of them carried attack payloads.

Transluce says it does not confidently attribute the Library and Archives Canada attempts to OpenAI, and does not attribute the broader traffic as a whole to OpenAI.

Transluce says it has so far identified no instances in its datasets where agents gained access to any information that is not publicly available.

OpenAI’s page on the Hugging Face incident says that, based on its review to date, it has notified dozens of third parties.

OpenAI’s page says its review of past activity is ongoing and that it will notify additional third parties as that work continues.

• The court granted Google’s motion to dismiss the Penske Media plaintiffs’ amended complaint, in a memorandum opinion dated 30 September 2026 that also covers Chegg v. Google.
• The plaintiffs alleged Google used its search monopoly to coerce publishers into supplying content it republishes, and that it unlawfully ties AI Overviews to its general search product.
• The court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the unjust enrichment claims and dismissed them. The opinion says a final, appealable order accompanies it.

Judge Amit P. Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia dated a memorandum opinion 30 September 2026 covering Chegg v. Google and Penske Media Corporation v. Google.

The court granted Google’s motion to dismiss the Penske Media plaintiffs’ amended complaint.

The plaintiffs alleged Google leveraged monopoly power in general search to coerce publishers to supply content that Google republishes to compete with them.

The Penske Media plaintiffs also brought an unlawful tying claim, alleging that Google unlawfully ties AI Overviews to its general search product.

The court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the unjust enrichment claims and dismissed them.

The opinion says a final, appealable order accompanies it.

• Anthropic says Claude for Government is generally available for federal and state agencies, after a public beta since July.
• The platform delivers Claude’s coding and agentic work capabilities through a FedRAMP High authorized environment, Anthropic says.
• Anthropic says there are no seat fees: agencies pay for usage in fixed increments with a hard not-to-exceed cap.

Anthropic says Claude for Government is generally available for federal and state agencies.

Anthropic says the platform delivers Claude’s coding and agentic work capabilities through a FedRAMP High authorized environment and has been in public beta since July.

Anthropic says there are no seat fees: agencies pay for usage in fixed increments with a hard not-to-exceed cap.

Anthropic says the Claude Code command-line interface and Claude for Microsoft 365 are rolling out in early access through the same environment.

Anthropic says administrators can allocate and control spending across departments, and security teams get audit logs and documentation that supports the agency ATO process.