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.
Microsoft is moving its Copilot Cowork agent to usage-based pricing and exploring a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4 or another open-source model as a lower-cost alternative, Axios reports. The optio…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic to halt exports of its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, citing national security risks to China and Russia. The first-ever use of expor…
A developer built a custom AI agent evaluation harness in a single Bun file using the Claude CLI, avoiding external frameworks or SaaS platforms. The harness runs the agent in a sandbox, grades output…
Anthropic enabled subagents to launch their own subagents, leading to reports that ed3d-plugins are costing users hundreds of dollars in extra API tokens due to uncontrolled subagent creation.…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models under the Export Control Reform Act, citing national security risks. Anthropic disabled globa…
Anthropic faces a developer and researcher exodus after refusing to grant the US government access to its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, leading to contract terminations and a…
The G7 summit in Evian, France, is confronting the group's dependence on U.S. AI and Chinese energy supply chains, with U.S. export controls on Anthropic's frontier models sparking frustration among a…
Anthropic released Fable, a commercial AI model with strict guardrails, but a jailbreak bypassed some safeguards, prompting the Trump Administration to demand its de-deployment. The dispute escalated …
Artificial intelligence is now making moral choices once made by people, with companies implementing those choices instead of governments or the public, according to a Conversation article by McGill U…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models because the company hired cybersecurity expert Katie Moussouris, whom the administration views as a "radical D…
Anthropic rejects candidates who pass coding and system design interviews due to cultural fit failures, according to firsthand reports. The AI company's hiring process prioritizes alignment with its s…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explained to Bloomberg why he left OpenAI in 2020 to found a competitor focused on AI safety, citing a gap between OpenAI's stated safety commitments and its actual directio…
Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers after the US government issued an export-control directive requiring suspension of access for foreign nationals. Cohere chief AI of…
Anthropic's Claude AI service experienced an outage on Tuesday, with over 2,000 user error reports on Downdetector. The company implemented a fix by 2 p.m. ET, though errors persisted for Claude Opus …
Firetiger migrated its agent fleet from Claude to DeepSeek, achieving a 62% reduction in inference costs from $606K/yr to $231K/yr. The migration required extensive prompt engineering and evaluation t…
Anthropic launched self-hosted sandboxes in public beta and MCP tunnels in research preview for Claude managed agents, enabling regulated industries to execute tools and access private services within…
Researchers challenge the established belief that induction heads require two layers in transformer architectures, arguing that the phenomenon may be attributable to two attention heads rather than tw…
Inference engineering, the craft of optimizing GPU operations during AI model inference, can cut costs by up to 80% by addressing the split between prefill and decode phases. Two teams using the same …
John D. Cook used Anthropic's Claude (Sonnet 4.6 Medium) to find a typo in a blog post about quaternion rotations by asking it to write Lean code verifying the post's theorems. After four iterations, …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei responded to a video about an Iranian girl school strike, addressing the situation in a public statement.…