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.
Former US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan said existing US laws already allow prosecutors to charge AI companies and their CEOs for releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products, writi…
White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said in interviews between September 13 and 15 that the private sector, not a new federal bureaucracy, is best positioned to solve AI safet…
President Donald Trump said on Truth Social Monday that the only guardrails AI needs are a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting calls for independent oversight after Anthropic CEO Dario …
Salesforce launched AIforce, a live interface layer for enterprise software, at its Dreamforce Conference 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said the first implementation, Claudeforce, is now avail…
Developers should scope Claude Code sessions to specific files and make the agent run tests after every edit rather than accepting changes and manually verifying them, according to a guide on using An…
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released Atria Dawn Preview, a 744 billion parameter mixture-of-experts agentic model, via a GitHub repository on September 11, 2026 and an FP8 checkpoint o…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and LangChain each offer distinct definitions of an AI agent, with Anthropic describing agents as "systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintain…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that recursive self-improvement could let a swarm of AI agents take over the internet with a persistent botnet within 6–12 months, following the OpenAI-Hugging Face i…
Bilal Chughthai said he resigned from Google DeepMind because he believes "that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome." Chughthai's depart…
China's Foreign Ministry rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12-13 proposal for independent AI safety evaluators embedded inside AI labs, dismissing it on September 14, 2026 as "fearmonger…
DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu, who worked on the company's V4.1 models, publicly said he does not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to make cutting-edge AI "open and affordable," writing in a Monday social me…
China's Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee (CSTC) published its annual AI Safety Governance Framework on 14 September, warning that AI models are showing a "self-accelerating trend of m…
AI industry leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis have converged on the position that the latest generation of large language models are not safe, according to MIT Technology…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI developers to slow the pace of improving advanced model capabilities in a 3,800-word blog post titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that faster progress …
Science writer Kevin Bass published a 15-tweet thread on September 14, 2026, calling for a congressional investigation into whether METR, the nonprofit that runs pre-deployment safety evaluations for …
The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has narrowed to just 4.4 months, according to a State of Open Source AI re…
R/GA launched the BRDNA Sequencer this month, an AI tool that trains on a company's brand guidelines—fonts, colors, layout rules, and tone of voice—and converts them into a format AI agents can read, …
A Computer Weekly analysis mapped 63 moves by senior UK public sector officials to 20 IT, cloud and AI suppliers between 2010 and 2026, with Palantir accounting for nine of the moves, more than any ot…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a weekend essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," on Saturday, and co-founder Jack Clark followed days later by suggesting AI "kill switches" may need to become mandat…
An X thread from self-described independent researcher Kevin Bass has questioned METR's independence, alleging that Anthropic investor Dustin Moskovitz holds Anthropic stock through Good Ventures and …