Tag: Anthropic

Anthropic’s Claude agents flag a new enzyme family in viral DNA

Roughly 950 Claude agents searching bacterial virus sequences surfaced a previously uncharacterised enzyme system, the first result from…

Anthropic trims Opus costs and speeds output in a mid-cycle refresh

Anthropic's new flagship costs less to run, answers faster and outruns the larger Fable model on many benchmarks.

Claude Code learns to read the cross vendor AGENTS.md file

Version 2.1.277 lets Claude Code fall back to the open AGENTS.md convention when a project has no CLAUDE.md.

Mathematicians resent AI yet keep feeding it their work

Researchers say frontier models take credit for their ideas while staying too useful to abandon.

AI super PACs pour $1M into a quiet South Dakota race

Groups tied to AI labs and their investors are spending heavily to keep a friendly senator in place.

Robot arms rarely refuse in a new harm benchmark

Given instructions to cause harm with real hardware, three leading models almost never said no.

Watermarking can loosen a model’s grip on its refusals

New research finds provenance signals change what models do, not just what they say.

Anthropic delays its stock listing into November for a stronger quarter

Anthropic has moved its planned market debut out of October as advisors wait on third-quarter numbers.

Anthropic confirms a Bay Area wet lab for model-run biology

The company says its models need real experiments, not only simulated ones, to matter in biology.

Anthropic and Accenture each pledge $1B for embedded auditors

The two companies will spend five years building independent evaluation capacity led by Accenture's Faculty unit.

Frontier labs face a class action over an alleged slowdown pact

Four consumers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to limit how fast their models improve.

Bug bounty team chains two flaws to crack OpenAI accounts

A three-person security team used Claude to reach OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts and earned $6,500 for the find.