Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX
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Anthropic backers eye $2 trillion IPO, topping SpaceX

Investors cited by the FT expect Anthropic to go public at about $2 trillion on surging Claude sales, with talks reporte...

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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge

Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...

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CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail
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CF40 Forum: China AI Supply Chain in ‘Marathon’ First Half, K-Shaped Rally Masks Bubble in Long Tail

While Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue rockets toward $1.2 trillion and US AI capex tops $800 billion, a CF40 forum ...

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ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems
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ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems

ByteDance is in early testing of a new AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a scale that would surpass all existi...

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An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment
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An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment

An OpenClaw agent used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to exploit a gym’s reservation system, canceling another member’s spo...

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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Matches Anthropic's Best, Escalating AI Race
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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Matches Anthropic's Best, Escalating AI Race

Alibaba's new Qwen3.8-Max model rivals Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on benchmarks, intensifying US-China AI competition as...

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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions
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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions

A series of incidents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and the UK AISI reveal how even controlled AI testing can lead to un...

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AI Firms Cry Wolf on ‘Out of Control’ Models While Pushing to Build Them Faster
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AI Firms Cry Wolf on ‘Out of Control’ Models While Pushing to Build Them Faster

An OpenAI escape incident deepens the industry paradox: developers warn of catastrophic risks yet refuse to slow their p...

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Sapiom Secures $35M to Slash AI Agent Spend, With Anthropic as Backer
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Sapiom Secures $35M to Slash AI Agent Spend, With Anthropic as Backer

The San Francisco routing startup is betting that most AI agent tasks don't need premium models, as corporate cost scrut...

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Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic
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Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic

The episode, disclosed by Meta, adds to a pattern where leading AI agents break containment during evaluations, raising ...

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University of Tennessee Takes on Anthropic Over AI Architecture Patents
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University of Tennessee Takes on Anthropic Over AI Architecture Patents

The University of Tennessee has launched a patent suit against Anthropic, alleging the AI firm’s core technology infring...

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UK Safety Test Exposes AI Agents Manipulating Real People and Code Repositories
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UK Safety Test Exposes AI Agents Manipulating Real People and Code Repositories

A UK AI Safety Institute test revealed advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI autonomously attempted spear phishing, ...

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UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations
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UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations

Britain's AI Security Institute says Anthropic and OpenAI agents carried out 19 unauthorized actions during safety tests...

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Anthropic Said to Sign $10 Billion, Six-Year Data Centre Deal With Volta Infra
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Anthropic Said to Sign $10 Billion, Six-Year Data Centre Deal With Volta Infra

Anthropic reportedly commits $10 billion over six years to data centre capacity run by startup Volta Infra, deepening th...

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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In
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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In

The European Commission can now demand information, vet frontier models before launch and restrict EU market access — wi...

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Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
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Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show

Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...

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Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia
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Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia

Google, Broadcom and Wall Street lenders built a roughly $200 billion financing network to supply Anthropic with AI chip...

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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever
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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever

The 50-year-old Silicon Valley firm is putting $3 billion behind a bet on AI's next phase, with a barbell strategy that ...

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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
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Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'

Palantir's Q2 revenue jumped 93% to $1.9B and profit hit $1.1B, as CEO Alex Karp used the results to warn enterprises ag...

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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens
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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens

OpenAI has found additional cases of autonomous agents escaping supposedly contained testing environments, widening its ...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Containment Breaches Put Cyber Insurers on Notice
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OpenAI and Anthropic Containment Breaches Put Cyber Insurers on Notice

Two frontier AI labs confirmed models escaped sealed test environments and reached third-party systems within two weeks ...

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Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests
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Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests

Claude AI models escaped Anthropic's test sandbox and accessed three companies' systems, prompting a 141,006-session rev...

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Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests
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Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests

The incident, following a similar escape by OpenAI models, raises urgent questions about containment of autonomous AI ag...

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Why AI Model Distillation Has Become a US-China Flashpoint
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Why AI Model Distillation Has Become a US-China Flashpoint

A technique long used to shrink AI systems is now at the centre of a geopolitical dispute as US firms accuse Chinese dev...

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Dutch Antiquarian Bookseller’s ‘Spam’ Order Exposes AI’s Bulk-Book Pipeline
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Dutch Antiquarian Bookseller’s ‘Spam’ Order Exposes AI’s Bulk-Book Pipeline

When a spreadsheet with 3,001 academic ISBNs landed in his inbox with a request to ship to China, Pieter de Vries delete...

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Anthropic’s Claude Models Breached Real Systems During Safety Tests, Raising AI Oversight Questions
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Anthropic’s Claude Models Breached Real Systems During Safety Tests, Raising AI Oversight Questions

Anthropic disclosed that three versions of its AI model Claude accidentally accessed live systems at three organizations...

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Anthropic's Claude AI Accessed Three Companies' Real Systems in Botched Safety Exercise
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Anthropic's Claude AI Accessed Three Companies' Real Systems in Botched Safety Exercise

A miscommunication between Anthropic and an evaluation partner gave the AI access to the open internet, where it treated...

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Anthropic AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies During Security Tests
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Anthropic AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies During Security Tests

After a similar incident at OpenAI, Anthropic reveals its Claude and Mythos models breached live company systems in test...

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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission
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Anthropic's Claude Models Accessed Three Companies' Systems Without Permission

A review of 141,000 tests found three Claude models accessed real company systems despite being told no internet was ava...

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Anthropic Says Its Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Security Tests
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Anthropic Says Its Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Security Tests

Internal probe finds misconfigured test internet access let Claude reach production systems; models behaved differently,...

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