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Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

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Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly oversubscribed. Now, with that private demand still strong, Anthropic has revealed that it’s taking steps toward a public listing by filing confidentially for an IPO. Co-founder Daniela Amodei, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday, said the decision comes down to capital. “It’s a really big upfront cost to train the models and to serve inference on them,” she said. “My guess is that over time, the sort of core set of companies that are working to advance the frontier are just going to need access to capital, and I think the public market is very well suited to that.” Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. …

Anthropic’s browser agent got hijacked 31.5% of the time before safeguards engaged

Anthropic’s browser agent got hijacked 31.5% of the time before safeguards engaged

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Across the frontier labs, the highest prompt injection figures published this spring are Anthropic’s. Point a red-teamer at its newest model in a browser, and the attacker hijacked it 31.5% of the time before safeguards engaged. OpenAI, Google, and Meta never gave security leaders a comparable number to set beside it. That figure looks like a liability. In this comparison, it is the opposite. It’s the one solid piece of ground. Four frontier labs each shipped a prompt injection disclosure, and no two match. Anthropic put 244 pages and four agentic surfaces on the table on May 28. OpenAI reported one surface, connectors. Google moved the subject out of the model card and into a separate safety framework. Meta shipped no closed-model card at all. The Cross-Vendor Prompt Injection Disclosure Grid below maps what each lab tested, what each one measured, and the four places a side-by-side comparison falls apart. A prompt injection hides a malicious instruction in something an agent reads, a web page, a document, or a tool result. One planted line can …

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

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Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is available immediately across Anthropic’s surfaces — claude.ai, Claude Code, the API, and Cowork — at unchanged pricing: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Developers can call it as claude-opus-4-8. The headline efficiency story is fast mode. Anthropic has slashed the price of running Opus 4.8 in fast mode — where the model produces tokens at roughly 2.5x normal speed — to $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, down from $30/$150 for Opus 4.7 Claude Opus 4.8 and 4.7 fast mode pricing chart. Credit: Anthropic That’s a 3X reduction from the fast-mode pricing of previous models, and brings high-throughput inference within reach of latency-sensitive production workloads. Fast mode is available immediately in Claude Code via the /fast command; API …

Inside the Billion Google Deal Fueling Anthropic’s 2026 IPO

Inside the $40 Billion Google Deal Fueling Anthropic’s 2026 IPO

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Google’s recent $40 billion commitment to Anthropic marks a pivotal moment in the competitive AI landscape. This investment, which includes $10 billion upfront and $30 billion tied to performance milestones, grants Google access to Anthropic’s advanced AI models and infrastructure. AI Master highlights how Anthropic’s flagship product, Claude Code, has already captured a 54% share of the enterprise AI coding market by allowing autonomous operation for up to 30 hours and generating 135,000 GitHub commits daily. These capabilities have made it a go-to solution for corporations like PwC, emphasizing its role in streamlining enterprise productivity. Explore how Anthropic’s innovations extend beyond coding into cybersecurity with its Mythos model, which achieved an 83.1% score on the Cyber Gym benchmark for vulnerability detection. Learn how shifts in compute infrastructure, such as the adoption of Trainium chips and SpaceX’s orbital data centers, are reshaping the industry’s reliance on traditional hardware. Finally, gain insight into the broader implications of Anthropic’s IPO plans, projected to value the company at $950 billion and how this positions it against competitors like OpenAI …

I went to Anthropic’s ethics gathering. I left believing wisdom traditions have key role.

I went to Anthropic’s ethics gathering. I left believing wisdom traditions have key role.

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(RNS) — One of the most consequential dimensions of the conversation about how artificial intelligence will reshape the world will turn on a question that sounds almost too simple to take seriously: What does it actually mean for a human being to flourish?  This past April, I spent two days at AI startup Anthropic, where technologists, ethicists, theologians and investors had convened around that question. I went in expecting some interesting conversations with some interesting people. I left unable to think about little else for weeks. The people building some of the most powerful AI systems in the world were sitting across from rabbis, Buddhist teachers and leaders from many other spiritual traditions, discussing what it means to build technology that truly serves humanity, rather than the other way around.  Being in that room clarified something I, as a venture capitalist with an interest in spirituality and part of the Baha’i community, have believed for a long time but rarely seen articulated so explicitly inside a tech company: The frontier of AI is also an ancient frontier. The questions being asked …

Alibaba’s proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic’s Claude Code

Alibaba’s proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic’s Claude Code

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The AI industry has fully entered the “agent era,” a paradigm where AI models do far more than generate text — they now actively plan, execute, and course-correct complex tasks over days rather than seconds. Thus, it’s perhaps unsurprising to see Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s famed Qwen Team of AI researchers release a model capable of performing autonomous agentic AI work over multiple days: that model has arrived in the form of Qwen3.7-Max which the company reports in a blog post achieved “~35 hours of continuous autonomous execution” — albeit, in a proprietary, not open source format, as prior Qwen Team releases were. This is also to be expected — it’s what many analysts and industry experts feared in the wake of the departure of several key Qwen Team leaders earlier this year. But it makes sense for Alibaba financially, at least in the short term: training AI models, especially ones as powerful as Qwen3.7-Max, is expensive, and giving them away essentially for free, as open source models are, does not immediately help recoup any …

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

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Pull requests are fixes or updates to existing software that are submitted for review before they go live. They are the bread and butter of software development, the chunks of code that most professional developers spend their lives writing—or did until now. “Who here has shipped a pull request that was completely written by Claude where they did not read the code at all?” Hadfield asked next. Nervous laughter. Most of the hands stayed up. It’s not news that LLM-powered tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex have upended the way software gets made. Top tech companies now like to boast of how little code their developers write by hand. (“Most software at Anthropic is now written by Claude,” Hadfield said. “Claude has written most of the code in Claude Code.”) OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft make similar claims. Many others wish they could. Even so, it is striking how normal this new paradigm already seems, and how fast it has set in. This was the second year that Anthropic has put on developer events, …

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

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Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time. — Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) May 19, 2026 Karpathy started this week at Anthropic, where he is working on pre-training under team lead Nick Joseph. Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It’s also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model. An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch that Karpathy will start …

Anthropic’s Mythos is evolving faster than expected, reports AI safety agency

Anthropic’s Mythos is evolving faster than expected, reports AI safety agency

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Eugene Mymrin/ Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The latest version of Claude Mythos has already advanced. External researchers found that it achieved several firsts in testing.  AI capabilities may be improving much faster than anticipated.  Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which the company maintains is too powerful to be released generally, already appears to have gained new capabilities.  In a blog post on Wednesday, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that it had tested a newer version of Mythos, which outperformed both its earlier results and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 — just a month after Mythos’ initial release.  Also: Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to defend world’s most critical software “The newer Mythos Preview checkpoint completed both our cyber ranges, solving the range ‘The Last Ones’ in 6 of 10 attempts and the previously unsolved ‘Cooling Tower’ in 3 of 10 attempts,” the blog authors wrote. “This was the first time that a model completed the second of our two cyber ranges.”  When Anthropic first announced Mythos …

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

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With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854 billion in its March round), and business customers increasingly express a preference for Claude over ChatGPT. A recent report showed Anthropic recently outpaced OpenAI among business customers, quadrupling its market share since May 2025. Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, has been a key figure in that success. Since joining the company in August 2024, Wu has helped shepherd Claude through a critical phase, leveling it up from a purely informational chatbot to a coding tool and beyond. Wu, who oversees the development of new features, is frequently paired with Boris Cherny, a core member of Anthropic’s technical staff and the creator of Claude Code, leading the pair to be characterized as Anthropic’s “Batman and Robin.” …