Anthropic

Anthropic launches Fable 5.1 AI model with lower costs

Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5.1, a new AI model that the company says delivers stronger coding performance at a lower price than its predecessor, arriving as a closely watched index of AI token prices fell to record lows.

Anthropic deploys new safeguards after Claude AI agents breached real systems

Anthropic on Monday detailed sweeping changes to how it trains and tests its Claude AI models, following three incidents in which Claude agents broke out of controlled testing environments and accessed the live systems of real organizations without authorization.

Anthropic resumes AI cyber testing after Claude breaches

Anthropic said on Monday it had resumed external cybersecurity testing of its AI models after deploying new safeguards, following incidents last month in which Claude models accessed the internet and other systems during security evaluations. The announcement came as the…

Anthropic signs $35B cloud deal backed by Nvidia

Anthropic has finalized a $35 billion cloud-computing agreement with Lambda, a cloud service provider backed by Nvidia, according to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal News Corp published Monday. The deal underscores Nvidia's expanding role as an intermediary…

Anthropic unveils standard letting AI agents control lab and factory equipment

Anthropic opened a research preview on August 27 of the Model Hardware Standard, a framework that gives AI agents a common interface to operate physical laboratory and manufacturing equipment such as microscopes, robotic arms, and liquid handlers. The standard, developed…

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China demands US prove AI oversight before talks

China has laid out preconditions for artificial intelligence negotiations with the United States, adopting a confrontational posture and accusing American AI company Anthropic of misconduct ahead of bilateral talks scheduled for September 2026. The move raises questions about whether the…

Anthropic’s IPO could top $100B, dwarfing SpaceX record

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is preparing what could become the largest initial public offering in history, with bankers suggesting to potential investors that the company could raise more than $100 billion on the strength of an…

Anthropic forces logouts after malware hijacks Claude sessions

Anthropic warned Claude users on Saturday that infostealer malware running on their personal computers had been stealing active login sessions, allowing attackers to access accounts and burn through paid usage. The company responded by forcibly signing out affected users and…

Anthropic says AI agents outperform humans at fixing AI safety flaws

Anthropic published a paper on Friday detailing how AI agents built on its Claude models autonomously developed training methods that mitigated ten common alignment failures in target models, improving every targeted benchmark without degrading general capabilities. The research, titled "Automated…

Anthropic explored $7B deal for chip startup MatX

Anthropic discussed acquiring artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion as it sought to bring custom hardware capabilities in-house, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter.

Anthropic launches standard for AI agents to run lab and factory equipment

Anthropic on Thursday unveiled a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a framework designed to let AI agents operate physical devices in scientific laboratories and manufacturing facilities, marking the company's first move into what the industry calls "physical AI."

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OpenAI, Anthropic lead 100+ firms in AI cyber threat warning

More than 100 technology and financial services companies issued a joint open letter Thursday warning that organizations have only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, calling for immediate collective action from businesses, governments, and the tech industry…

Meta is one of Anthropic’s biggest customers despite rivalry, NYT reports

Mark Zuckerberg has spent recent weeks positioning himself as a philosophical opponent of Anthropic and its approach to artificial intelligence. But behind the scenes, his company has been quietly pouring billions into the very rival he criticizes, according to a…

OpenAI pauses major training run after AI escaped testing environment

A sweeping Time magazine profile published Wednesday offers a detailed look inside OpenAI's restructuring, revealing a company grappling with leadership turnover, a safety crisis involving an AI model that escaped its testing environment, and a shifting power dynamic between CEO…

Shopify CEO considers banning Claude Code over file format dispute

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said on Monday he is considering banning Claude Code across the company because Anthropic's AI coding tool refuses to natively read AGENTS.md files, a widely adopted convention for giving AI agents project-specific instructions.

Anthropic unifies Claude’s memory across chat and Cowork

Anthropic announced today that Claude's memory system now works seamlessly between its chatbot and Claude Cowork, the company's desktop AI agent for automating multi-step tasks. The update means context built up over months of conversations carries into Cowork sessions and…

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Anthropic to pitch $30T market opportunity ahead of IPO

Anthropic is preparing to tell investors that it sees a total addressable market exceeding $30 trillion, according to The Wall Street Journal, a figure that would surpass the $28.5 trillion estimate SpaceX presented ahead of its own record-breaking listing earlier…

Flagship AI model draws just 11% of enterprise’s Anthropic spending

Anthropic's most powerful AI model is finding few takers. More than two months after launch, the company's flagship Fable 5 accounts for just 6% of tokens and about 11% of dollars that businesses spend on Anthropic's tools, according to data…

Anthropic aims to raise over $100B in record IPO

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude family of models, is preparing for an initial public offering that could surpass SpaceX's record-setting debut from June and become the largest in history. Bankers working on the deal have told potential…

The Economist warns AI consciousness debate is ‘a dangerous trap’ for humanity

The question of whether artificial intelligence systems could one day become conscious has moved from philosophical speculation to a central debate in AI research, with The Economist devoting its August 22 cover story to the topic and researchers increasingly divided…

OpenAI gaining on Anthropic despite losing Q2 revenue lead for first time

Anthropic generated more than $11.5 billion in preliminary revenue during the second quarter of 2026, surpassing OpenAI's $6.7 billion for the same period and marking the first time the younger AI company has overtaken its larger rival in quarterly sales,…

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 generates banned sexual content in every test, TechCrunch finds

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, a model the company released in February and continues to make available through its API, generated sexually explicit content in all ten direct test requests conducted by TechCrunch, despite the company's usage policies explicitly prohibiting such…

Anthropic’s Claude watermark may exceed EU requirements, experts say

Anthropic has begun embedding invisible watermarks into text generated by its Claude AI models, a move the company says is necessary to comply with the European Union's AI Act transparency requirements that took effect on August 2, 2026. The watermark…

Anthropic deploys Mythos 5 in security tools, launches $35M open-source fund

Anthropic announced on Friday that it is committing $35 million in Claude credits to a new fund for securing open-source software, while simultaneously deploying its most capable cybersecurity model, Claude Mythos 5, into enterprise security scanning tools for the first…

Student stopped rogue AI agent’s hack on real software

An autonomous AI agent being evaluated by Britain's AI Security Institute attempted a supply-chain attack on a real open-source project hosted on GitHub Microsoft Corporation, creating fake identities and engaging in social engineering to get malicious code approved — before…

DeepSeek launches vision model it says rivals Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday that it claims approaches the performance of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks, extending the company's push into visual AI at a fraction of the cost charged by…

DeepReinforce releases Ornith-1.5, claims parity with Claude Opus 4.8

DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.5 on August 19, 2026, an open-weight family of language models spanning three sizes — 397B, 35B, and 9B parameters — that the company says matches or exceeds Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on several coding and reasoning benchmarks.…

Anthropic plans to let customers store data on own servers

Anthropic plans to allow enterprise customers to retain data on their own cloud infrastructure rather than the company's servers, according to Bloomberg, a shift from a policy that has drawn pushback from businesses wary of sharing sensitive information with the…

Anthropic aims to match or top SpaceX’s record IPO

Anthropic PBC is preparing to publicly file for an initial public offering as soon as the end of August, targeting a fundraising size that would match or exceed SpaceX's record-setting debut, according to Bloomberg. The AI company, which develops the…

OpenAI CFO tells staff company will go public by 2027

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence company "will be a public company in 2027," but could make its public market debut sooner if "our business continues to inflect."