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2026
October 15, 2026

Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety practices

The company is also engaged in early-stage discussions with other organizations, including Hugging Face.

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October 15, 2026

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

October 15, 2026

Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

October 15, 2026

AWS, Anthropic race to deploy army of specialized engineers key to proving AI spending will pay off

AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are racing to build forward deployed engineering teams as companies seek returns on their AI investments.

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October 15, 2026

Anthropic's third-quarter revenue is said to hit $16.8 billion ahead of IPO

Anthropic reports third-quarter stands at $16.8 billion ahead of its IPO.

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October 14, 2026

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos, offering a rare look at costs involved in defending against AI.

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October 14, 2026

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

October 13, 2026

Anthropic urges court in Washington, D.C. to rehear appeal of Pentagon blacklisting

Anthropic is asking a federal court in Washington, D.C. to rehear its appeal in a case concerning the Pentagon's blacklisting of the company's AI models.

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October 13, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us

AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons.

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October 13, 2026

Anthropic to disclose new revenue numbers as AI lab financials become central to tech trade

Anthropic will release updated financials to a group of investors gathering at its headquarters this week, according to people familiar with the matter.

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October 13, 2026

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

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October 12, 2026

Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.

October 10, 2026

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.

October 9, 2026

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

October 9, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic poach Trump officials as industry fights for Washington’s trust

AI labs have been looking to people with political experience as frontier tech is increasingly viewed as a national security issue.

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October 8, 2026

Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference

Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.

October 7, 2026

Anthropic will be 'most ridiculous IPO' of year, analyst says

Anthropic reportedly plans to list on the Nasdaq before Thanksgiving, and one bearish advisory firm suggests that investors sit this one out.

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October 6, 2026

Anthropic expands Claude Startups program in bid to snag founders and fast-growing companies

The expansion marks the AI company's latest push to deepen its ties to founders and fast-growing companies.

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October 6, 2026

Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits

"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."

October 5, 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta execs set to testify at NYC Council hearing on AI risks

The leading AI labs facing intensifying scrutiny over their safety and security practices.

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October 2, 2026

Anthropic to invest $100 million to train AI engineer talent

Anthropic will invest $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers, partnering with a number of consulting firms.

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October 2, 2026

Google has been playing catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Does its new flagship model really compete at the frontier?

Google has been trailing OpenAI and Anthropic for much of 2026, analysts say Gemini 4 puts it back in the frontier AI conversation.

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September 30, 2026

FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

The probe adds to the mounting scrutiny that OpenAI and Anthropic have been facing over their safety practices following the Hugging Face hack.

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September 29, 2026

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.

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September 21, 2026

Meta's Muse personal AI agent tops ChatGPT, Grok and Claude for post-launch downloads

Meta's Muse AI personal agent tool had 730,000 downloads over the roughly five days after its launch.

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September 18, 2026

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

September 18, 2026

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

September 18, 2026

Anthropic selects Accenture as first embedded evaluator to help implement Amodei's slowdown proposal

Anthropic and OpenAI have been under intense scrutiny after researchers warned about the potential for AI to cause catastrophic harm to humanity.

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September 18, 2026

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.

September 18, 2026

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

September 18, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI need truly independent safety evaluators, experts say in public letter

A coalition of over 100 AI experts are urging independence and transparency from Anthropic, OpenAI and other foundation model labs to conduct evaluations.

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September 18, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI hunt for smaller data center deals, sources tell CNBC, in race to deploy AI capacity

Anthropic and OpenAI have announced a flurry of AI infrastructure deals over the past year as demand booms.

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September 17, 2026

Anthropic shares 3 metrics to help AI companies monitor pace of development

Anthropic said it measured AI-led research and development, oversight of AI agents and compute allocation within the company.

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September 17, 2026

Google, Nvidia and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers

A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers.

September 17, 2026

King Charles to press Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic leaders on AI safety at summit

Charles will convene senior tech leaders today as the debate around the risks involved in AI development ramps up.

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September 17, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic are making 10 times more revenue than all Chinese AI models combined, research group Rhodium says

Rhodium Group's latest analysis of Chinese and U.S. AI companies also found that low revenue did not necessarily correspond with lower valuation.

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September 16, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

September 16, 2026

Anthropic policy chief says AI companies can't be expected to operate on 'honor code'

Sarah Heck, Anthropic's head of public policy, offered her perspectives on AI safety as the debate about how to regulate model development intensifies.

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September 16, 2026

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface

Anthropic is releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers initally

September 16, 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI's proposed AI risk evaluators may not have enough power to prevent disasters

Anthropic and OpenAI are proposing embedded AI evaluators to help manage risk of models causing catastrophic harm to society, but the idea has some issues.

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September 15, 2026

Nvidia's Huang rips Anthropic's proposal for AI safety antitrust waiver: 'Completely unnecessary'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back on calls to give AI companies antitrust exemptions to coordinate slowing the development of advanced models.

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September 15, 2026

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic discussing collaboration on AI safety issues

Discussions have been ongoing since Google's Demis Hassabis released a proposal in July calling for a U.S.-led "Standards Body," the spokesperson said.

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September 15, 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.

September 15, 2026

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

September 14, 2026

Broadcom CEO addresses Anthropic's slowdown push, says AI revenue targets haven't changed

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said demand for AI infrastructure remains strong despite growing concerns about increasingly powerful models.

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September 14, 2026

CrowdStrike CEO on Anthropic’s AI safety warning: ‘The genie’s out of the bottle’

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said slowing AI development won’t eliminate the risks because potentially dangerous models are already widely available.

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September 13, 2026

Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic

Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

September 13, 2026

Anthropic's Amodei says China presents 'toughest dilemma' for his proposed AI slowdown

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk have all welcomed Amodei's proposal.

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September 12, 2026

Anthropic's Amodei proposes plan to 'slow the pace' of advancing AI capabilities

Amodei's essay landed after an Anthropic researcher set off a firestorm on social media this week by announcing he quit his job at the company.

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September 12, 2026

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?