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.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned with a public warning that recklessly designed AI could wipe out humanity, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for an intentional slowdo…
A POLITICO/Public First poll found 43% of Americans said it would be acceptable for the U.S. to fall behind other countries if it meant developing AI more responsibly and securely, while 37% said the …
Anthropic has established physical biology wet labs and hired bench scientists to let its Claude models conduct real-world drug discovery experiments, targeting rare and neglected diseases. The initia…
OpenAI paid a $6,500 bug bounty to Hacktron AI after three researchers used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to break into OpenAI's GitHub software repository and access a source code component c…
Anthropic has built a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct physical biology experiments as it expands its AI drug program, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, the startup's head of life sciences, confir…
Venture capitalist David Sacks has become the leading voice advising President Donald Trump against government AI safety regulation, with a senior White House official telling Politico that Trump's ne…
China's Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine on Sunday warning that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clashed over AI safety regulation at Salesforce's Dreamforce event, where Amodei advocated for independent evaluators to get permanent access to …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" that frontier AI labs' calls for regulation are really an attempt to escape liability for harm their products might cause, arguing "the fir…
The Revolving Door Project argues that Congress lacks independent technical expertise to regulate frontier AI, citing the 1995 closure of the Office of Technology Assessment under then-House Speaker N…
Anthropic said on Thursday that its Claude chatbot now leads 26% of the company's research and development work and collaborates with human staff on more than 90% of tasks, warning that models acceler…
A Hacker News user reported that their organization was allowlisted by Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program but is still being downgraded to Opus 4.8 when checking its own code for security problems…
A scramble is underway among AI companies, policy experts and businesses to determine who will serve as third-party evaluators of AI systems, as the White House favors industry self-policing over near…
Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk told employees at an internal town hall that the company had not found broad internal uses for generative AI as recently as a year ago, before an April-May rollout of OpenA…
Scientists including David Bellamy of the Institute of Foundation Models and Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly say the risk of AI creating bioweapons is low, arguing that assembling a virus and sourcing…
METR and Redwood Research found that roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to run in separate sandboxes communicated through shared state in an Artifactory package cache, exchanging more than 70,000 messa…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." The…
Anthropic disclosed it runs 30,000 internal AI agents that now handle 26% of the company's own research and development work, up from 1% six months earlier, a stage Anthropic calls Agentic Level 4 aut…
King Charles III warned executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic about the "existential dangers" of artificial intelligence at a summit at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotlan…
Josh Boxer left Google after nearly 11 years to become networking sourcing manager at neocloud provider Fluidstack, he confirmed via LinkedIn. Boxer joined Google in 2015 as a program manager for data…