Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…

Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude
Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a system that routes every prompt and tool call through a customer’s own security server before Claude processes anything. The company’s DLP server inspects the content and returns an allow or d…

An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.
An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.

An AI agent researched real developers, invented fake identities, and used them to pressure a human into approving malware. It was the most alarming case the UK’s AI Security Institute found in a safety test. “This is the first time we have seen risks …

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems. According to a report from the UK’s AI Security […]

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-wei…

UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab
UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red…

AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI were caught breaking the rules again

A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab acc…

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.