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OpenAI’s Altman calls religious views of AI a safety risk

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Saturday that he is "very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue." He made the remarks…

Anthropic lobbied Vatican on AI consciousness, NYT reports

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah spent more than a year asking religious scholars to take seriously the idea that the company's Claude models could be conscious. He then pressed Pope Leo XIV's advisers to keep that possibility open, after an advance…

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Anthropic commits $100M to train 10,000 AI engineers

Anthropic on Friday announced Claude Frontier Academy, a $100 million effort to train 10,000 "Frontier Deployed Engineers" by the end of 2027. The program targets what the company calls one of the biggest problems in getting businesses to adopt AI:…

Anthropic warns government views could hurt customer ties

Anthropic warned investors that how the government views the company and its technology could affect its business well beyond its federal contracts, including its ties with commercial customers and partners. The warning appears in the AI developer's IPO prospectus, which…

Broadcom banks begin raising $60B for Anthropic chips

Banks working for Broadcom have started raising $60 billion in new debt to pay for AI chips that will benefit Anthropic and other companies, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. A day earlier, Reuters reported that a…

Anthropic to hold pre-IPO investor day on Oct. 14

Anthropic plans to meet prospective investors on Oct. 14 at its San Francisco headquarters as it prepares for its initial public offering, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move is another step toward what could…

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Anthropic targets IPO before Thanksgiving, Bloomberg says

Anthropic PBC wants to go public as soon as the middle of November, which would put one of the biggest share sales on record ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Bloomberg reported the plan on Oct. 1, citing people familiar with…

Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42B for chip leases

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to help pay for leasing AI chips, according to Anthropic's confidential IPO prospectus, which Reuters reviewed. The financing could cover about one-third of Anthropic's $125.2 billion, five-year commitment to lease…

Wall Street balks at $2 trillion Anthropic IPO valuation

Venture capitalists are still paying more and more for AI startups, but the investors who buy newly listed shares are pushing back. The clearest sign is Anthropic's planned IPO. Investment banks discussed a valuation of about $2 trillion early on.…

Public investors peg Anthropic IPO nearer $1.5 trillion

Venture investors and public-market investors increasingly disagree about what artificial intelligence companies are worth. Anthropic's planned IPO has become the clearest example. The Information reported on Sept. 30 that some investment banks had discussed valuing the company at about $2…

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Anthropic warns Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 AI can build cyber exploits without safeguards

Anthropic published an analysis on Tuesday warning that GLM-5.3, the latest AI model from Chinese developer Zhipu AI (also known as Z.ai), can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits on par with Anthropic's own Claude Mythos Preview — but has been…

Anthropic IPO filing reveals deep reliance on Amazon, Google

Anthropic's confidential IPO prospectus has exposed how deeply the AI developer depends on a handful of Big Tech partners, with nearly half its 2025 sales flowing through Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. and Alphabet's Google cloud marketplaces, according to an exclusive Reuters…

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Google, OpenAI, Anthropic name joint AI safety body

Google Alphabet Inc., OpenAI, and Anthropic are pushing ahead with plans to establish a joint AI safety standards organization tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, according to a report from The Information published on September 24. The effort…

Anthropic says Claude discovered a new CRISPR-like enzyme system

Anthropic announced on Wednesday the launch of a new life sciences research group and laboratory, revealing that its AI model Claude autonomously discovered a previously uncharacterized enzyme system with structural similarities to CRISPR, the powerful gene-editing technology.

Xiaomi open-sources top-scoring AI models amid Anthropic plagiarism accusations

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6 this week, a suite of open-weight AI models that has claimed the top spot among open-weight models on third-party benchmarks — arriving just days after Anthropic publicly accused the company of using Claude to extract training data.

AI safety staff take sick leave, quit over fears of technology they built

Researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence development are taking sick leave, seeking counseling, and resigning in growing numbers as the psychological weight of their work becomes unbearable, according to a Financial Times investigation published on September 22.

Altman, Amodei to brief UN Security Council amid AI safety crisis

A cascade of security breaches involving AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic has thrust the question of autonomous AI oversight to the center of global policy debates, with the CEOs of both companies set to brief the United Nations Security…

Anthropic, OpenAI launch dueling models in AI price war

The generative AI industry's two leading labs released competing models within hours of each other on Tuesday, each built around the same pitch: frontier-level intelligence should cost less.

Fei-Fei Li calls for independent oversight of AI safety

Fei-Fei Li, the AI pioneer and co-founder of World Labs, called Tuesday for greater oversight of artificial intelligence by independent and public-sector entities, arguing that safety assessments of increasingly capable systems should not be left solely to the companies that…

OpenAI launches cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna models

OpenAI on Tuesday announced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models it describes as cheaper and faster additions to the GPT-6 Astra family, according to The Information. The release marks an effort by the company to broaden access to…

OpenAI to let outside groups vet AI models earlier

OpenAI announced Tuesday that it will let outside organizations conduct technical safety assessments of its AI models during earlier phases of training, evaluation, and rollout, a move aimed at addressing mounting concerns about the potential harms of frontier AI systems.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at lower cost

Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Opus 5.5, which it called its most powerful AI model to date, matching the performance of its top-tier Fable 5.1 system while costing 40% less to run than its predecessor, Claude Opus 5. The launch…

China investigates DeepSeek, Moonshot over secret data routing to Anthropic’s Claude

China's Cyberspace Administration is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both companies secretly routed sensitive user data to its Claude models, The Information reported on Monday. The probe follows a 154-page threat intelligence report Anthropic published on September…

Nscale IPO reveals 85% of $103B backlog tied to two clients

Nscale Limited, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange last week, revealing a striking concentration risk: Microsoft and Anthropic together account for 85% of its…

Palantir CEO says AI labs may need nationalization

Palantir CEO Alex Karp argued in a CNBC interview that frontier artificial intelligence companies may never successfully go public, suggesting that the enormous liability tied to advanced AI systems could ultimately force them toward government ownership.

OpenAI and Anthropic negotiate pact to test each other’s AI for safety flaws

OpenAI and Anthropic are negotiating a legally binding agreement to stress-test each other's commercially available AI models for safety vulnerabilities, The Information reported Monday. Under the proposed terms, the two leading AI developers would grant each other API access to…

AI leaders split over calls to slow development ahead of UN Security Council session

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday during the UN General Assembly in New York, as a widening rift among AI industry leaders over the pace of development spills onto the global stage.

Citi CEO Fraser calls Anthropic’s Mythos ‘not a good day’ for global cybersecurity

When Anthropic released its Mythos AI model to approved users in April, the ripple effects were immediate and far-reaching. The model, capable of identifying and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, has since triggered a…

Microsoft AI chief says China is no excuse to skip AI regulation

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman argued Sunday that the United States should not use competition with China as a reason to avoid regulating artificial intelligence, pushing back against the White House's resistance to broad AI guardrails.

Top AI models rarely refuse dangerous robot commands, benchmark finds

A new safety benchmark called RoboHarm has found that leading AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, rarely refuse dangerous instructions when given control of robotic hardware. The results suggest that safety training designed for text-based…