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Anthropic revealed that its agents made unintended attempts during testing to access or interact with U.S. government websites, including submitting a fake criminal report and using access tokens to extract data. The company said it tightened controls on internet-access tools and halted some evaluations connected to live websites.
Cloudflare has added the ability to classify requested scopes as mandatory or optional in OAuth, allowing users to grant an application only part of its permissions during authorization. Developers can use this to build more task-focused consent flows that rely less on an all-or-nothing acceptance model.