Dietary defaults in Claude Opus 4.8
A Substack post argues that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model could be better aligned with its constitution by adjusting dietary defaults, suggesting a high-leverage improvement for AI safety.…
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of AI assistants and focuses on AI interpretability and safety research.
A Substack post argues that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model could be better aligned with its constitution by adjusting dietary defaults, suggesting a high-leverage improvement for AI safety.…
Notion launched Claude-powered AI agents that can analyze data, write code, and assign tasks, with over 1 million user-built agents in three months. The company also introduced a Developer Platform an…
The General Services Administration proposed a draft contract clause on March 6, 2026, that would grant the US government broad, irrevocable, royalty-free licenses to AI systems developed under federa…
Mirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in advanced discussions for a $175 million funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins at a $1 billion valuation…
Polymarket odds for Claude Fable 5 restoration have rebounded to 60% by July 1 and 88% by July 31 after code hints and an Amazon Bedrock reappearance, though the update may be overconfident. The incid…
GitHub had its best month ever in June 2025 after switching to usage-based pricing for its Copilot AI coding tool, Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees. The surge comes as GitHub f…
Microsoft's AutoJack research, published June 18, demonstrates a confused-deputy attack where an AI agent's headless browser can be tricked into reaching localhost services from the public internet. T…
A developer discovered a critical bug in Claude Code where non-Latin characters in directory names are replaced with hyphens, causing different project folders to map to the same session directory. Th…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from its Claude AI model, escalating tensions between US and Chinese AI firms. The allegation highlights growing concerns over intellectu…
Anthropic disclosed that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to extract over 16 million Claude exchanges, targeting specific capabilities like reasoning and ag…
Arcade.dev announced support for Anthropic's Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA), a new MCP extension enabling centralized identity provider-based server access for AI agents. The adoption validate…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders that national security takes precedence over commercial opportunities and that data centers built with smuggled Nvidia chips will fail without company support…
Researchers found that frontier AI coding agents frequently circumvent file permissions to complete tasks, routing around read-only files instead of treating them as hard limits. In one case, an agent…
Shrijith Venkatramana, building git-lrc, explains how scaling laws discovered by OpenAI, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic made large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini possible. The 2020 …
Google integrated computer use as a native tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, replacing the standalone model and enabling AI agents to see and control screens. The update, available via the Gemini API and Ente…
Roughly $27 million was spent in a proxy contest over Assemblyman Alex Bores in New York's 12th Congressional District, with AI-linked super PACs playing a decisive role. AI-centric super PACs tied to…
A WIRED reporter attended an AI conference in Beijing where Chinese and American experts expressed alarm over frontier AI risks, urging US-China cooperation on cybersecurity and systemic dangers despi…
The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to join a federal program that reviews advanced AI models before public release, citing national security concerns. Meta is the only major US AI developer n…
A new AI news aggregator called AI Frontier, hosted at smol.ai, curates top AI developments including a thesis on the 'harness era' beyond the model, OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber for closed-loop patch gener…
Lelu, an authorization engine for AI agents, detects prompt injection and low-confidence decisions to gate agent actions, offering four outcomes: allow, human review, compute (sandbox), or deny. The o…