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Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an 830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a 7.5B valuation in January — Fluidst
Ian King / Bloomberg: SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Ant
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI
Some thoughts on the purported distillation timeline. 1. You don't need that many Fable tokens to distill on top of the alleged ~50b Anthropic claimed Moonshot AI distilled in Feb. ~10b, about $60k wo
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthro
Anthropic 'distilled' millions of copyrighted books without asking. They knowingly used pirated materials for training. The entire U.S. ecosystem of AI is based on similar theft and extraction. But it
LWiAI Podcast #248 (June 12, 2026) reviews major AI developments, noting Anthropic’s release of Claude Fable 5, a safeguarded variant of Mythos 5, which shows benchmark improvements but raises concern
Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the com
imo this is the most impt part of anthropic's J-space paper today. it's a two-parter: 1) ant proved that they can do 'brain surgery' interventions into reasoning to change topics midstream* 2) THE MOD
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Mi
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook — Microsoft Corp.
At the event 'The Briefing: AI for Science' earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new 'AI workbench for scientists' that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still fi
The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an ev
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropi
Emmy Martin / New York Times: As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenA
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5, on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5 is the first Sonnet model of
Catherine Perloff / The Information: Sources: Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products — As Anthropi
Marton Eder / Bloomberg: Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech — Austria is pu
Laura Bratton / The Information: Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry — When Anthr
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based Sakana AI's Fugu and China-based 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 amid the US export ban — On Wednesday, Ch
After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of organi
It's been two weeks since Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration. The company sprang into action immediately, sending a barrage o
Semafor: Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing — THE SCOOP — The US government Friday
Anthropic accused Alibaba of a coordinated, industrial-scale operation to illicitly scrape data from Claude , using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million exchanges betwe
Chad Jones, economist who'll be joining Anthropic: 'In other words, with log utility it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raisin
Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r
Bloomberg: Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic — Two leading artificial intellig
Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 — At high-stakes me
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Menlo raised 3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly 14B — In 202
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei is calling on the U.S. government to block the deployment of dangerous artificial intelligence models in the same way as it prevents unsafe airplanes from ta
Anthropic's leadership, through CEO Dario Amodei, has advocated for transparency requirements in frontier AI development as a regulatory approach, arguing that the risks were insufficiently understood
🔔 IF Anthropic is for real about safety, the should pause, for one month, and show leadership. If they won’t pause, even briefly, we have a different kind of answer about what is real and what is mark
Usage share of OpenAI grew vs Anthropic yesterday despite Mythos 5 / Fable 5 launch Multiple power users at SemiAnalysis tried Mythos / Fable Got refusals for nonsensical reasons Got pissed off at Ant
Anthropic didn’t just add guardrails to make Mythos safer; they added guardrails to protect their own IP. *Their own IP*. They are still as happy as fuck to build their AI on other people’s IP. Intere
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days — Claude
Anthropic PBC today introduced Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, two large language models that it says outperform the competition across a wide range of benchmarks. The LLMs are derived from the Cl
BREAKING NEWS: Anthropic's latest model will NOT help you if it thinks your ML research/ML engineering is interesting, and/or will secretly degrade its IQ so that the average engineer won't notice. We
🚨 Fable 5 is something to pay attention to. This is another 'I had early access to the new Mythos-class Anthropic model and I want to tell you what I thought of it' post. I know, I know, it's annoying
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go — Perplexity is p
OpenAI on Monday checked off a preliminary step in the IPO race that it and rival Anthropic have been competing in for the better part of a year: The company announced it has confidentially submitted
Imaginary conversations that might actually have happened Act I Sam: We missed all our metrics, Anthropic and Google have gained on us. Give us 40 billion dollars. Masa: No way! Sam: If you don't, we
No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI
Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a 35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions — Apollo Global Management Inc. a
Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between
Anthropic PBC has sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development and is calling on the world’s top AI laboratories to consider slamming on the brakes. In a blog post today,
Anthropic engineers have significantly increased their productivity, shipping approximately 8 times more code per quarter in recent periods compared to the 2021-2025 baseline. This metric suggests sub
Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog
Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. sai
Let’s say half of OpenAI and Anthropic goes to the American people, 1 trillion That works out at 2,800 per American. With a 5% dividend (optimistic) that would be $142 a year Which alas would barely c
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries —
Anthropic's self-reported run-rate revenue growth is wild - Axios @JimVandeHei said he could not find 'any company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this
Hot take on what comes next, after the sudden decline of tokenmaxxing: - OpenAI will struggle - with the decline of tokenmaxxing Anthropic will struggle (aside from this quarter) to make a profit - Go
1. Agreed that OpenAI is in deep trouble; that’s why I have long suggested that it might be the WeWork of AI but 2. Anthropic is not out of the woods; their best quarter was exactly when tokenmaxxing
Claude: Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations — Early access users and teams ins