Anthropic Fires Back at Snitch Amazon CEO
Amazon faces higher costs under a renegotiated token-based pricing contract with Anthropic, prompting the e-commerce giant to explore alternatives including a potential deal with OpenAI. The tensions …
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.
Amazon faces higher costs under a renegotiated token-based pricing contract with Anthropic, prompting the e-commerce giant to explore alternatives including a potential deal with OpenAI. The tensions …
Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled Tulong Feng, an AI vulnerability agent, at ISC.AI 2026, claiming it as China's answer to Anthropic's Mythos. Separately, Z.ai released GLM-5.2 under an MIT licen…
Anthropic's Claude model lineup—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—offers different trade-offs between speed, cost, and capability. The article provides a straightforward rule for choosing among them based on ta…
An engineer running four production projects on Claude Code warns that multi-agent fleets can burn roughly 15x the tokens of a single chat, and that paid external tool calls are a hidden cost driver. …
A coalition of former governors, big tech companies, and nonprofits has raised $500 million to help U.S. workers navigate AI-driven job disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and f…
Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, identified five archetypes for future product roles—Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower, and Maintainer—based on observations of the Claude Code team. He argue…
Mirendil, an a16z-backed startup, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to develop AI capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to bridge the gap between scientif…
Mirendil, a San Francisco AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDI…
Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available on Microsoft Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra systems. This marks Anthropic's first deployment on NVIDIA hardware and includes NVIDI…
Anthropic warns that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for, as models like Claude now write over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's systems. Th…
California struck a first-of-its-kind deal with Anthropic to make its Claude AI assistant available to all state agencies and local governments at half the standard enterprise rate, bypassing a Pentag…
An engineering team deployed a market research pipeline using four LangChain agents in November 2025. A logic failure caused two agents to enter a recursive loop, resulting in a $47,000 API bill due t…
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companie…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to the Claude AI assistant at half price, making Anthropic the state's first official AI partner. The …
Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, offering Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 with features like prompt caching and extended thinking. The integration pro…
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic have reached a deal allowing state agencies to use the Claude AI chatbot at a discounted price, aiming to improve government efficiency. The agreement di…
A developer explains why they refuse to run untrusted AI models in coding agents, citing risks of backdoored code and arbitrary execution. They trust only Anthropic and OpenAI due to legal and financi…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reached a deal with Anthropic to offer its Claude AI chatbot at a 50% discount to state agencies and local governments, aiming to boost adoption and improve govern…
Meta relied on Google's Gemini models for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation until Google imposed capacity limits in March 2026, forcing Meta to ration AI tokens and shift workloads to…
Amazon engineers are distilling Anthropic's AI models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use ahead of a switch to token-based pricing next year, which could increase costs. The company is als…