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.
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 …
A developer's cost analysis of AI agent runs shows that a 20-turn agent reading roughly 59,000 tokens of material is billed for 656,000 input tokens because stateless model APIs resend the full conver…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Microsoft published separate essays calling for a slowdown — not a pause — in frontier AI development, with Amodei urging external evaluators, government-supervised coor…
Former Israeli financial regulator Shlomit Wagman argues that a US-China AI safety pact can be built on mutual self-interest rather than mutual trust, citing active bilateral dialogues on AI risks aro…
China is drafting what Concordia AI founder and CEO Brian Tse called the world's first mandatory national standard for AI agent safety, part of a regulatory regime that treats advanced AI as a managea…
A developer has released Franca, an open-source Java 21 library published to Maven Central that implements the server side of agent wire protocols, terminating OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages …
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI cosigned the AEF-1 standard, which grants outside evaluators such as METR ongoing, employee-like access to AI training pipelines rather than only finished models, a concrete …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set off a wave of calls among AI executives to "pace the frontier" of AI development, prompting President Donald Trump to reject AI guardrails on Truth Social as a "hoax" an…
OpenAI and Anthropic responded to mass extinction concerns, according to a Prof G Pod discussion between host Ed Elson and Baseten Co-Head of Model Training Charlie O'Neill, who also addressed where A…
The conservative Alliance for a Better Future is spending seven figures on ads backing Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, running throughout Sept…
China is rapidly closing the AI technology gap with the United States, with Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence reporting that China appears to be erasing the U.S. lead thi…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher, resigned from Anthropic on Sept. 8 after three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, posting on X that neither company is acting respons…
President Donald Trump's opposition to AI regulation is undercutting calls from Anthropic and OpenAI for mandatory safety checks, CNBC reported. The two AI companies have pushed for the checks as fear…
Harvard Kennedy School fellow Shlomit Wagman argues the first workable global AI safety pact should be built for a world without trust, because the U.S. and China are unlikely to agree on broad shared…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell that the company will not go public in 2026, pushing its IPO window to 2027, citing safety concerns rather than market conditions. "I…
President Donald Trump posted a series of tirades on Truth Social on Monday attacking the very idea of regulating AI and dismissing dire warnings from AI scientists, according to a September 15 Daily …