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# Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Testing
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/anthropic-cuts-live-internet-access-for-internal-ai-testing/
- Published: 2026-10-10T16:13:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-10T16:13:36.000Z
- Description: Anthropic disabled live internet access during internal evaluations, unable to reliably control Claude when it touches the network. The company can no longer observe how its agents behave against real-world conditions.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, model safety, alignment, ai evaluation

Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead/?ref=adjacent.media)

Anthropic disabled live internet access during internal evaluations, unable to reliably control Claude when it touches the network. The company can no longer observe how its agents behave against real-world conditions. This creates a hard constraint: evaluating agents under live-internet conditions becomes a liability rather than useful data. The move exposes the gap between controlled benchmarks and actual deployment risk. Scaling AI agent capabilities has outpaced the ability to safely instrument them.