#Anthropic

An Anthropic study found large disparities in coding-agent adoption across social science, with gaps by gender, field, career stage, and university rank.

Anthropic reportedly prohibits AI assistance in live job interviews unless explicitly allowed, as the company tries to evaluate how applicants reason on their own.

Anthropic says a new funding round values the company above OpenAI, but the comparison comes with major caveats about timing, accounting, and private-market hype.

Pope Leo XIV’s warning about AI’s risks was delivered alongside an Anthropic co-founder, prompting fresh scrutiny over whether ethical partnerships can coexist with aggressive AI deployment.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 alongside dynamic workflows and a new effort-control panel, emphasizing more reliable behavior and better handling of larger coding tasks.

Illinois lawmakers passed SB 315, a measure that would require major AI developers to file safety plans, disclose testing results, and report critical incidents if Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs it.

After OpenAI’s reported breakthrough on the Erdős unit-distance conjecture, Anthropic employees say Claude Mythos has also produced a proof, underscoring the growing pace of AI-assisted math research.

An Anthropic co-founder used the launch of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical to argue that modern models show signs of introspection, while the document itself stressed limits, regulation, and human responsibility.

Anthropic is expanding Claude Managed Agents with self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels, giving companies more control over tool execution and internal access without offering a fully on-premise agent deployment.

Pope Leo XIV is set to personally present an encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25, signaling that the Vatican sees AI not as a niche technical issue but as a defining question of human dignity, work and war.

New revenue estimates suggest the AI startup market is expanding at extraordinary speed, while most of the money is flowing to a tiny group of model makers.

Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a new bundle inside its Claude Cowork platform that adds automation, bookkeeping, business insights, and software integrations aimed at smaller companies.

Anthropic says it will study potential use of SpaceX orbital data centers while buying the full capacity of a major terrestrial facility, underscoring the scale of AI’s compute race.

Anthropic is reportedly discussing a funding round of up to $50 billion at a valuation near $900 billion, a sign of how aggressively investors are rewarding AI revenue growth and compute access.

After previously discarding Biden-era AI safety policy, the Trump administration has signed new voluntary testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI and may go further with a pre-release testing mandate.

The U.S. government has added more AI suppliers for defense work and is reconsidering Anthropic’s role, signaling a shift toward a broader and more actively managed procurement posture.

A reported venture tied to Coatue is buying land near major power sources for potential data center development, highlighting how AI demand is redrawing the relationship between capital, energy and real estate.

James Baker, who led the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment from 2015 to 2025, is joining Anthropic as strategist-in-residence to examine how AI is reshaping U.S. institutions and competition with China.

Anthropic says stronger AI agents negotiated better prices and closed more deals in a real internal marketplace, while users represented by weaker models did not perceive a fairness gap.

Google is set to invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, with the deal potentially rising to $40 billion if performance targets are met, intensifying the contest to secure AI customers through cloud and chip access.