AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme
AI workers turn an extinction warning into a copy-and-paste meme

“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week as he resigned from Anthropic. He meant it as a serious warning. Within a day, the line had become a joke template on X. Dozens of u…

AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it

A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…

Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons

Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaig…

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it’s human.

Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year
Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the m…

Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports
Anthropic skipped UK pre-release tests for Mythos 5.1, the FT reports

Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK instit…

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the…

OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit
OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit f…

EU cybersecurity agency is now testing Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, the Commission says
EU cybersecurity agency is now testing Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, the Commission says

ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it alongside OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday. Reuters reported the confirmation, bringing an en…