Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold

Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company pr…

AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale
AMD raises $4.75bn in its biggest ever bond sale

AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic. AMD has rai…

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off
Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off

Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment …

The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first
The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first

Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider’s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthr…

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed …

Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead b…

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT 5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.