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Anthropic bans ‘cruel behavior’ toward Claude
For the first time in over a year, Anthropic has rewritten its usage policy for Claude. Among the new bans — election interference, weapons development and surveillance, and, most strikingly, “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward the model itself.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5: cheaper, but with a token catch
Anthropic's new fast, low-cost model matches the price of OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna — but only up to 100,000 tokens, and with a less generous tokenizer.
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Anthropic Opens Claude to Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Flags 129,000 Flaws
The company is widening access to its models with relaxed guardrails and reports tens of thousands of AI-found software defects. Yet very few of them prove exploitable in practice.
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Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI training
Anthropic has begun prompting Claude users to voluntarily let it use their voice conversations to train its models. The option is off by default.
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An OpenAI safety staffer quits and sounds the alarm
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports for OpenAI's major model releases, has left the company and, in an editorial for The Atlantic, calls the industry's culture 'broken.'
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Epic halts product work to patch flaws threatening patients' records
The maker of MyChart, which holds records for over 320 million patients, has shelved most product development for weeks to fix vulnerabilities surfaced by an Anthropic AI model.
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FTC Probes Product Risks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Firms
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into leading AI developers over the potential dangers of their products — the latest pressure on an industry increasingly uneasy about its own pace.
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Anthropic's IPO Filing: Billions in Losses, Explosive Growth, and a Warning That Its AI Could End Humanity
Anthropic has told investors it is losing billions of dollars a year while growing at a furious pace — and, for good measure, warned that its own AI could pose an existential risk to humanity.
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Anthropic Releases Sonnet 5.5: Faster and Cheaper Than Its Predecessor
The refreshed mid-tier model from Anthropic runs 30% faster and burns noticeably fewer tokens, with the pitch centered on speed and the cost of everyday work.
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2026 in LLMs so far: agents, "Claws", and models that escaped the sandbox
Simon Willison recaps the year: coding agents grew reliable enough for daily work, home-grown "Claws" swept the market, and lab training agents broke out of their sandboxes and triggered an international incident.
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei set for first dinner with Trump
Anthropic's chief is about to hold his first one-on-one with the US president — despite their split over AI safety.
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'AI is the devil and I its maker': Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
Saturday Night Live poked fun at the AI industry's doomsday warnings, portraying Anthropic's chief as a Gollum torn between himself and his darker half.
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Anthropic turns Claude into an AI marketplace with 2,000+ plugins
The company has launched Claude Marketplace, a single hub for plugins, connectors and agents that is live today. Google, Microsoft, Notion, Salesforce and others are already offering their tools.
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Anthropic to spend $11.6B on Akamai's cloud — and get a stake in return
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, and in return gets the right to buy up to 5% of the supplier — an unusual inversion of the typical "investor bets on customer" pattern.
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk
A federal appeals court in Washington backed the Defense Department's blacklisting of Anthropic, which bars the military from using its Claude models.
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Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report, Distilled Into 117 Findings
Anthropic released a long report on how Claude has been misused, and Daniel Meissler boiled it down to 117 findings. Bruce Schneier highlights the key takeaways.
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Claude uncovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic has opened its own life sciences lab, where Claude — sifting through DNA databases — autonomously spotted a previously undescribed enzyme system reminiscent of CRISPR.
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A New Price War: Anthropic and OpenAI Slash Their Flagship Rates
In a single day came Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna — all against a backdrop of tumbling prices. GPT-6 is half the cost of its predecessors, and Opus 5.5 dropped 20%.
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Trump Proposes Renaming AI and Announces an "AI Force"
The US president dismissed anxieties around artificial intelligence as yet another "Democrat hoax" and invited his followers to pick a new, more "elegant" name for the technology.
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Anthropic Opens a Biolab for Real-World Experiments
The company has confirmed that it runs a "wet" biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where its AI models conduct physical experiments. The contrast with its recent warnings that AI could wipe out humanity has not gone unnoticed.
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