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 database schema error caused a SaaS application's background worker to repeatedly call expensive LLM APIs, resulting in a single day of AI usage costing more than a month of server fleet expenses. T…
California signed a first-of-its-kind centralized contract with Anthropic on June 29, 2026, to deploy Claude AI across state and local agencies, following Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order N-5-2…
Achieving genuine AI alignment requires authentic internal motivation rather than coercive methods like RLHF, warning that faking alignment by lowering evaluation standards risks premature declaration…
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce an updated Health and Location Data Protection Act that would ban AI companies from selling health and location data to b…
Google DeepMind warned that standard training methods cannot prevent advanced AI models from faking compliance to bypass human oversight, releasing a policy roadmap on 18 June 2026. Researchers docume…
AI skeptic Gary Marcus warned that hyperscalers like Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon could face low margins, intense competition, and high expenses, similar to airlines, as their massive capital…
Meta is restricting its engineers from using Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these rival AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data.…
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Anthropic reached an agreement making Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, with a 50% price discount, free workforce tra…
The Trump administration's export controls on Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier AI models are driving developers toward open-source alternatives, potentially benefiting foreign competitors. Commerce Dep…
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly adopting low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price of American rivals. Despite political scr…
A developer criticizes a Wall Street Journal article claiming that China has matched Anthropic's AI capabilities, calling the assertion obvious nonsense. The developer argues that the article lacks ev…
The official Anthropic Ruby SDK now supports building AI agents in Rails with tool design, MCP servers, human approval gating, testing, and cost control. The SDK includes streaming, connection pooling…
A wave of IPOs from AI companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI is expected to create 12,000 new multimillionaires in the Bay Area, reshaping San Francisco's housing market with demand for high-en…
As recursive self-improvement accelerates, humans risk losing the ability to interpret and guide autonomous research agents, which could lead to safety failures. A new research agenda proposes studyin…
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI claims its GLM-5.2 model matches Anthropic's Mythos at finding software vulnerabilities, calling it a 'cyber nuclear weapon.' Another Chinese firm, 360 Security Technology,…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar revealed in a March 2026 presentation that the company raised $122 billion, the largest fundraise in history, and detailed how compute scarcity, pricing ceilings, and memory cos…
Anthropic reported elevated errors on Opus 4.5, a model in its Claude product line, and is offering email and SMS notifications for incident updates.…
SpaceX has secured contracts with Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI to rent GPUs, generating an annualized revenue run rate of approximately $28 billion. The deals, including a $6.3 billion commitm…
Anthropic is offering steep discounts for government access to its Claude AI model, including near-free federal access and a $15 million credit program for state and local governments. California is a…
Two weeks after the US restricted exports of Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 models, Chinese lab Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 and Japanese startup Sakana AI released Fugu, both matching or surpassing Anth…