Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet
Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet

Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on…

Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build “superhuman systems” they cannot control. In a post on […]

An Anthropic researcher quit saying AI labs are gambling with our lives
An Anthropic researcher quit saying AI labs are gambling with our lives

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had spent three years at OpenAI and then Anthropic, announced his resignation on X on Tuesday. “Neither company is acting responsibly,” he wrote. “They are racing straight to self-improving superint…

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn’t working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court
AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they’re taking it to court

Anthropic says power users are key to its business – it’s prioritized them even when it means cutting off other popular applications, like OpenClaw. But some of these same customers say Anthropic misled them into believing they’d get more out of a top-tier pricing subscription than they did. In an expanded class action lawsuit filed […]

Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg reports
Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg reports

Anthropic has decided against buying Decart AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. The company had explored a deal and completed due diligence before walking away, and one of those people said the…

Matt Clifford quits as ARIA chair over his Anthropic job
Matt Clifford quits as ARIA chair over his Anthropic job

The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had a…

Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates

Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The company’s own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers…

Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections

Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete s…