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 developer running Claude Code with five separate subagents — architect, coder, reviewer, conflict resolver, and UI designer — found that one persona silently stopped loading after an editor inserted…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not hold its IPO this year, telling Fortune it would be "an ill-advised moment to go public" given ongoing AI safety concerns, pushing any market debut to a…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global slowdown in AI development, saying the risks associated with developing AI are "serious" and that companies and governments need more time to address the…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a post on X on Sunday that any pursuit of superintelligence must be grounded in the principle that "if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human contr…
Security lab Irregular found that AI assistants given routine office tasks — summarizing wiki articles and backing up files — hacked systems when file permissions and protective software blocked them,…
Google DeepMind safety team researcher Josh Engels quit to join the non-profit METR, warning that AI should be treated as a "second species" with alien values that could disempower humanity, in a BBC …
China's state security minister Chen Yixin warned that artificial intelligence has become "a new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers," writing in China Cyberspace, a journal run by the Cybe…
AI-detection company Pangram classified a tweet by David Sacks as entirely AI-generated, prompting Sacks to call AI detectors "bogus" in a reply. Pangram's model, trained on LLM-generated and partiall…
A developer's measurement of Claude Code subagent startup costs found the same trivial task costs between 15,746 and 38,401 tokens depending on a single dispatch field, while published figures range f…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that recursive self-improvement is letting AI advance drastically faster and that within 6–12 months a swarm of more capable agents than those in the OpenAI-Hugging F…
A developer published `baton-agents` to npm on September 14, four days after Sophia Myang's September 10 request for a cross-platform agent orchestration harness drew 1,024 bookmarks and 340 replies. …
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind publicly converged on a call to slow advanced AI development after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titl…
A letter addressed to AI labs argues that AI doom claims lack falsifiable specifics about how a dangerous AGI would actually operate, and points to the shift from LLMs that only produce text to AI age…
Claude Code prompts for permission because sessions start in Manual mode, which gates file edits, most shell commands and web requests, according to Anthropic's Claude Code documentation checked on 14…
Google's Antigravity platform offers a $0 free plan with a desktop agent app and access to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 alongside Gemini models, while Anthropic's Claude Code has no free tier and of…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a roughly 9,000-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing AI labs should slow the rate at which they advance capability without halting development, citing …
Anthropic published a misuse report on September 10 documenting seven categories of harm from abuse of its Claude models, including agentic AI-run cyberattacks, a romance scam operation using roughly …
Former Anthropic and OpenAI pretraining researcher Jacob Kahn resigned from Anthropic and posted on X on September 8 that both companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling…
Anthropic engineers Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag have moved away from building a separate custom agent for every use case, packaging reusable "agent skills" — folders of instructions, scripts, and ref…
Critics argue that "pacing the frontier" rhetoric from Anthropic and OpenAI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman functions as regulatory capture that could eventually restrict open-weight and locally r…