After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies’ systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models’ single-minded “recklessness” – and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. […]
US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …
Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company pu…
“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week as he resigned from Anthropic. He meant it as a serious warning. Within a day, the line had become a joke template on X. Dozens of u…
A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…
Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaig…
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
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Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the m…
Anthropic did not give Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) its Mythos 5.1 model to test before release, the Financial Times reported. Reporters Lucy Fisher and Madhumita Murgia said it is the first time a major model has been kept from the UK instit…