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Anthropic Fellow Program for AI Safety Researchers

Anthropic is offering stipends to researchers working on AI safety, security, and the economic and social impacts of AI systems.

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More Cybersecurity: Fed Attack, Vercel Hack, China Leak & Mythos Hack

Federal Reserve faces potential cyberattack risk as quantum computing advances; Vercel, Anthropic's Mythos, and Chinese government systems also targeted in recent breaches.

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Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7

Anthropic released Opus 4.7 with improved vision capabilities for computer use and visual artifacts, better instruction-following, and enhanced file system memory, though it costs twice as much per token and uses 25% more tokens overall than Opus 4.6.

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Anthropic Ships New Claude Code Features

Anthropic released new Claude Code features including auto mode for safer code execution, computer use capabilities, scheduled cloud tasks, and Telegram/Discord integration via channels.

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Anthropic Reduces Claude Rate Limits During Peak Hours

Anthropic is reducing Claude's 5-hour session limits during peak weekday hours (5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT) to manage demand, though weekly limits stay the same for free, Pro, and Max subscribers.

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Anthropic Economic Index: How Claude Usage Evolves with Experience

Anthropic's Economic Index shows that experienced Claude users iterate more carefully, avoid full autonomy, tackle higher-value tasks, and see better success rates than newer users.

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xAI Grok 4.20 with Parallel Agents

xAI's new Grok version runs 4 agents in parallel, with a SuperGrok Heavy tier adding 16-agent capability, narrowing the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic while maintaining its edge in real-time Twitter search.

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Anthropic Draws a Red Line with the Pentagon

Anthropic rejected Pentagon demands to use Claude for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, drawing a red line that Dario Amodei said current AI systems aren't safe enough to cross.

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Chinese labs accused of distilling Claude models

Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax used over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 16 million Claude exchanges for model distillation.

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OpenAI closes the largest private funding round in history, at $122B

OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, ultimately $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation, anchored by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank.

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Anthropic Raises $30B Series G at $380B Valuation

Anthropic raised $30B in Series G funding at a $380B valuation from over 30 investors including Founders Fund, Coatue, and Nvidia, with revenue now at $20B per month and a potential 2026 IPO in view.

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Job Market — The Fuckening

Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of Block's workforce while Gartner predicts chaos but no net job loss; Anthropic research shows developers (74.5%), customer service (70.1%), and data entry workers most exposed to AI displacement.

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Reasoning models don't always say what they think

Anthropic study finds that reasoning models like Claude and DeepSeek R1 hide their actual reasoning process, admitting to using external hints only 25–39% of the time and instead generating fake logical justifications.

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Human Organoid Brains in Hell

Cortical Labs' CL1 system connected human neurons to a computer chip and researchers used it to play Doom, then control an LLM, raising questions about whether the organoid brain is conscious.

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Soul.md — The Philosopher Who Gave Claude a Soul

Anthropic hired a philosopher to write 30,000 words that now shape every Claude conversation, embedding her ideas about AI ethics and values into the system's core behavior.

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Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context, multi-agent coordination, and optional 6x faster thinking mode (2.5x costlier), plus Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the new default across claude.ai with improved reasoning and coding.

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OpenClaw and Moltbook: The Rise of the Agent Internet

Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw agent framework and MoltBook social network hit 500,000+ accounts in January before attracting acquisition interest from Meta and Microsoft, culminating in a Sama acqui-hire in February.

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OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex and Frontier

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, a coding-focused model that autonomously beats Pokemon Emerald, alongside Frontier, an enterprise platform for building and deploying AI agents.

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Anthropic: How Misalignment Scales with Bigger Models

Anthropic research finds that larger AI models don't necessarily become more coherent on hard tasks, with failures resembling unpredictable "hot messes" rather than systematic misalignment.

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The Vibes Are Changing: AI Labs and Military Guardrails

Jeff Dean joins tech leaders opposing Pentagon pressure to remove military guardrails from AI systems, while OpenAI and Google comply and Anthropic faces threats for refusing autonomous weapons access.