TL;DR Anthropic confirmed an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude. Job listing pays $320K-$485K. Multi-chip approach continues with AWS, Google, Nvidia, and AMD. 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 […]
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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. That takes total funding to $50 million. […]
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TL;DR Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise. Every prompt and tool call response passes through the customer’s DLP server before reaching Claude. Works with Netskope, Palo Alto, Zscaler. Covers all Claude surfaces with one config. Anthropic launched inference hooks for Claude Enterprise, a system that routes every prompt and tool call through a customer’s […]
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Beshear has until this Monday, August 3, to call a special election so Kentucky voters can choose a new senator in time for the midterms. Under Section 152 of the Kentucky state Constitution, a special election to fill a vacant seat must be called at least three months ahead of the vote—and since the midterm […]
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The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code inside workplace environments from July 10, according to a person familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The stated reason […]
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TL;DR AI executives who funded Trump’s deregulation push now want a formal framework after chaotic export controls and model restrictions. The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told […]
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OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users in May, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to Sensor Tower’s State of AI 2026 report. Yet on the metric that pays the bills, Anthropic’s Claude is pulling ahead: […]
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As a climate reporter, I find Amodei’s admonitions eerily familiar. For decades, scientists have warned about the enormous dangers posed by continuing to burn fossil fuels that deposit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warm the planet. Once policymakers seemed to be taking those concerns seriously, the companies whose products have fueled global warming—and that […]
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Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, founder of Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest software-focused private equity firms with almost $200bn […]
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Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head of its interpretability research, used his seat at the Vatican on Monday to make an argument that no leader of […]
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TL;DR Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have committed $200 million over four years to fund AI programmes in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. The partnership will use Claude to accelerate vaccine research for neglected diseases, build literacy tools for sub-Saharan Africa and India, and release public benchmarks and datasets. It is four […]
Read MoreThe contradictions surrounding AI have become impossible to ignore. The companies building it warn about catastrophic risk while simultaneously speeding up deployment, competing to dominate what we’re told is the most consequential technological transformation in history. Every player in the race, including governments, which are rushing to integrate AI deeper into military, educational, and administrative […]
Read MoreMUFG, Mizuho, and SMFG would be the first Japanese institutions added to Anthropic’s restricted Project Glasswing rollout, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters Japan’s three megabanks are set to gain access to Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s vulnerability-hunting AI model, within roughly two weeks, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. It […]
Read MoreA round at the proposed terms would push the Claude maker past OpenAI on paper, less than three months after its last record-setting raise. Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30bn in a new financing round at a pre-money valuation above $900bn, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. […]
Read MoreTyler Cadwell runs a small Arizona business called Everything Etched. He sells custom-engraved glassware on Etsy and Shopify. When he wants to brainstorm or build something new, he drives his Ford Bronco out into the canyons around Flagstaff and Tucson with a Mac mini in the passenger seat. The desktop is wired to a portable […]
Read MoreThe company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictional company called Summit Bridge, a fictional executive named Kyle Johnson is […]
Read MoreTL;DR Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, prompting the Fed chair and Treasury secretary to convene bank CEOs. The company warns of a six-to-twelve month window before adversaries replicate the capability. Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating […]
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The US president told CNBC on Tuesday that Anthropic is ‘shaping up’ following a White House meeting last Friday at which the company’s CEO Dario Amodei discussed its Mythos AI model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic remains in legal limbo, with a federal appeals […]
Read MoreThe deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement locks Anthropic into AWS’s Trainium chips through Trainium4 and secures up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude. Amazon has agreed to […]
Read MoreAustralia’s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic’s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international regulatory response that began with the Bank of England, the US Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department. ECB President Lagarde has warned no governance framework is yet in place. The […]
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Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic’s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety […]
Read MoreIn short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva’s Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canva AI 2.0, which the company calls its biggest product launch ever, introducing conversational design, agentic orchestration, and […]
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In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it […]
Read MoreIn short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each case. All three companies paid bug bounties quietly, $100 from Anthropic, $500 from GitHub, an undisclosed amount from Google, but none published public advisories or assigned […]
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In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, […]
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In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the tool’s example applications. The add-in, available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, completes Anthropic’s integration across the full Microsoft Office suite and arrives […]
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In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data centres for production-scale AI workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal arrives one day after CoreWeave announced a $21 billion expansion of its Meta partnership, and adds Anthropic to a […]
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The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. The exploration comes days after the company signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom for 3.5 gigawatts of TPU compute starting in 2027. A company spokesperson declined to comment. Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its […]
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Source: Alcorn State University / Getty Alcorn State University announced it would be the first HBCU to fully integrate AI as part of a statewide initiative with NVIDIA and Mississippi’s educational institutions. Mississippi Today reported in June 2025 that the initiative aims to train at least 10,000 Mississippians through a curriculum focused on AI skills, […]
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In short: Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, left the company last month and has taken a role as member of technical staff at Anthropic, where he will focus on reinforcement learning engineering. The move strips away a C-suite title in exchange for technical proximity to the frontier, and lands […]
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In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. Access to Claude Mythos Preview will instead be […]
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