Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.
Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,2…

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China’s growing AI capabilities.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models

Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-w…

That Claude chat you shared? Google may have seen it too

Public Claude chat links and Artifacts were indexed by Google, exposing shared conversations online. Here’s what happened and what Anthropic says about it.

PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own
Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own

Start with the number, because the number moved fast. Google has agreed to cover as much as $44bn of lease payments on data centres owned by other people, should the tenant default. It disclosed the figure last week. At the end of September the same co…

A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.
A million words costs $50 from Anthropic and 87 cents from DeepSeek. Corporate America noticed.

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15…

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, ex…

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable …