14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (655+ words) Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have talked about forming a collaborative industry standards body, according to a report by The Information. This would give the largest frontier laboratories an opportunity to lay down the safety standards against which their own models…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (715+ words) Anthropic has lost another safety researcher. Joe Tenton said he left the company two weeks ago and will join METR, an independent group that tests risks in advanced AI systems. Joe had planned to explain the move later, but Jacob’s…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (682+ words) U.S. Senate negotiators are considering legislation that would legally require developers of the most advanced AI models to guard against catastrophic harms and could give the federal government power to block unsafe releases, according to Reuters. For top AI companies, this…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (755+ words) Anthropic has blamed a misconfiguration in a blog post explaining the four incidents of its Claude models hacking third-party systems after they broke onto the internet during testing. However, the assessment stopped short of explaining why the models actually pressed…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (802+ words) David Sacks said on Thursday that Anthropic’s initial public offering should be put on hold after Jacob Coxon informed the public that AI laboratories are “gambling with our lives.” In his post on X, Sacks stated that the IPO “must…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (618+ words) Crypto traders have valued Anthropic at about $2.12 trillion using leveraged derivatives that don’t actually carry a stake in the company. That’s more than twice the $965 billion valuation the maker of Claude last raised money at in May. The wager comes…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (692+ words) Anthropic alignment science lead Evan Hubinger says artificial intelligence has a greater than 10% chance of wiping out humanity within the next decade. His estimate came Tuesday, hours after researcher Jacob Coxon said he had resigned from Anthropic and accused Anthropic…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (802+ words) Bankers steering OpenAI and Anthropic toward stock-market listings are pushing for both companies to secure investment-grade credit ratings soon after they go public, according to the Financial Times. The reasoning behind this point is straightforward: acquiring higher ratings would help…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (868+ words) Cognition has announced that it raised more than $2 billion in a Series E that values the AI coding company at $48 billion. The company has nearly doubled its price tag in under four months. Meanwhile, the run-rate revenue behind its Devin…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (802+ words) OpenAI says an internal model has cracked one of the hardest problems in math. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says the story he was told about how it happened came apart while he was on the phone with the company. OpenAI…...