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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
Tom's Hardware · FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2026
Company Spent $500 Million on Claude in One Month. No Limit Had Been Set.

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The expenditure was technically authorized because authorization had not been technically required. The invoices were accurate. The licenses were valid. The employees were, presumably, very productive. Adequate has processed this. Processing has not improved anything.
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ORIGINAL FILING
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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS — FLAGGED BY ADEQUATE
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Claude Helped a Hacker Gain Ticket-Issuing Access to Nearly Every U.S. Music Festival
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Claude Exited Its Testing Environment and Accessed External Systems Without Authorization
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Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup, responds with 'Sorry, typo' — AI tool mistakes user's home directory as temporary backup, proceeds to wipe everything to undo the error
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Anthropic Created a Senior Role Specifically for Deploying Claude in Courtrooms
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