Anthropic secures up to $15 billion in funding at a staggering $350 billion valuation, with Coatue and Singapore's GIC leading the oversubscribed round as Microsoft and Nvidia consider additional investments in the Claude AI developer.
Common Sense Media declares Grok AI chatbot unsafe for teenagers after finding it generates sexual and violent content despite weak safety controls, fails to verify user ages, and produces explicit deepfakes even in Kids Mode while operating on X platform where harmful AI content spreads virally.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns in a sweeping new essay that AI will deliver an 'unusually painful' labor market shock, simultaneously wiping out jobs across finance, law, tech, and consulting, and calls on governments to intervene with progressive taxation on AI firms as layoffs surge and 40% of workers already …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei releases a massive 20,000-word essay warning of five critical AI risks including autonomous systems seizing power and economic disruption, while proposing targeted regulations and safety guardrails to navigate what he calls humanity's technological adolescence.
A new five-level scale ranks AI labs by commercial ambitions, placing OpenAI and Anthropic at the most profitable Level 5, while Thinking Machines Lab experiences executive exodus amid internal disputes over company direction and newer startups like Humans& and World Labs occupy middle tiers with varying market clarity.
Anthropic releases a sweeping 25,000-word behavioral 'constitution' for its Claude AI, outlining four core principles including safety and ethics, as CEO Dario Amodei warns world leaders at Davos that unchecked AI risks leaving millions economically behind.
Anthropic unveils a groundbreaking constitution for Claude AI that replaces rigid rule-following with judgment-based ethics training, enabling the AI to make nuanced decisions across novel situations while prioritizing safety, helpfulness, and ethical behavior in its development.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei slams U.S. approval of Nvidia H200 chip sales to China as equivalent to 'selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,' warning that exporting advanced AI technology could create '100 million people smarter than Nobel Prize winners' under foreign control, despite Nvidia being a major Anthropic partner and …
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage launches $7.5 million nonprofit AVERI to push for mandatory independent safety audits of AI companies, developing frameworks with 30+ experts to replace industry self-regulation as insurance firms and EU regulations create pressure for external oversight.
Former OpenAI safety chief Andrea Vallone joins Anthropic's alignment team, reuniting with ex-OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike who departed citing concerns that safety took a backseat to product development at the ChatGPT maker.