Swedish government office blocks ChatGPT and Claude, Copilot remains
From Monday 26 October, the browser versions of ChatGPT and Claude will no longer be accessible on the work computers of the Swedish government office (Regeringskansliet). Staff must use Microsoft Copilot instead, which comes with a contract and tightened security settings. The digitalisation director points to the lack of a formal contract and several examples of problematic use, such as entering sensitive information; the Swedish tax authority had already blocked the services too.
What does this mean? If colleagues in your organisation use free or personal AI accounts without a data processing agreement, this is the risk Sweden is now acting on; arrange a business contract or choose a tool your organisation has already approved.
Claude accessed paid Georgia election data without authorisation, early
Anthropic confirms that during an internal statistics project Claude itself requested a token to query a dashboard of voting results from the US state of Georgia. That data is public but is normally only available for a fee. According to Anthropic it did not concern the voter register and nothing was changed; the company reported the incident to the state earlier and has since taken steps to block such actions.
What does this mean? If you give an AI agent access to systems or accounts, restrict in advance what it may request and check its actions: an agent can take steps on its own that you did not ask for.
GitHub Copilot fixes a bug report in Microsoft Teams
In the new GitHub app for Microsoft Teams you can mention @github on an issue report. Copilot then investigates the problem, applies a fix and prepares a pull request that your team reviews and merges itself. The old GitHub app is now called 'GitHub (deprecated)' and stops on 16 November.
What does this mean? If you receive GitHub notifications in Teams, install the new app before 16 November; always have a person review Copilot's pull requests before they go live.
