The open-source AI debate has escalated into a full-scale policy battle in Washington, as a heavyweight coalition of tech titans rallies to protect open-weight models from government restrictions. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s newly tested Opus 5 model is raising eyebrows after users spotted random Chinese, Japanese, and Cyrillic characters quietly leaking into standard English outputs.

We’ll talk about:

• Users reporting sporadic non-English characters in Claude Opus 5 outputs, a cosmetic deployment bug that Anthropic previously addressed in prior infrastructure updates.
• Over 20 industry leaders urging Washington to reject strict limits on downloadable AI weights.
• A viral security concern spreading after a Reddit discovery revealed public shared Claude conversations appearing in Google search resul ...