All posts tagged: Claude

Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason

Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In a classic example of the AI industry’s reputational alchemy, Anthropic has often transformed bad behavior by its flagship model Claude into fresh hype. When it revealed its Mythos Preview model last month, for example, the company declared that the system had “reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.” And last year, it conceded that during the testing of its Claude Opus 4 model, the AI ended up blackmailing a human user upon being threatened with shutdown. The maneuver was obvious to anyone who’s been watching OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s antics at Anthropic’s chief rival: the more threatening a problem the AI industry can cook up, the more imminently it can sell its own solutions. Now, for some reason, Anthropic is relitigating the blackmail incident. Specifically, it’s placing the blame for Claude’s evil behavior on an intriguing villain: the internet at large. Or, …

The 2026 Guide to Claude AI Skill Levels

The 2026 Guide to Claude AI Skill Levels

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Claude offers a range of capabilities designed to support users at different skill levels, from drafting simple emails to managing complex autonomous systems. According to Nate Herk, one notable feature is context retention across conversations, which allows beginners to maintain relevance across tasks while organizing projects more effectively. Advanced users, on the other hand, can use features like Markdown project files and sub-agents to integrate Claude with external systems for managing intricate workflows. Explore how to create reusable workflows that streamline your tasks, implement verification loops to ensure quality control and set up cloud-based routines for automation. This breakdown provides clear steps for using Claude’s features, whether you’re new to the platform or seeking advanced integrations. Claude Skill Levels TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude AI is designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows, offering five progressive skill levels to cater to users from beginners to experts. At the Enthusiast and Beginner levels, users can explore basic features like contextual understanding, project organization and integrations with tools like Slack and Google Drive. Intermediate users can use …

Claude Code : Agent View, Goal Command, and Background Sessions Update

Claude Code : Agent View, Goal Command, and Background Sessions Update

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Anthropic’s latest update to Claude Code introduces several new features aimed at improving how developers manage their coding environments. A key highlight is the Agent View, a centralized interface that supports real-time updates and background session management. This addition allows users to oversee multiple sessions at once, helping to maintain continuity across complex projects. According to World of AI, these updates address common obstacles in session handling and task execution, offering practical solutions for more efficient workflows. Discover the functionality of the /goal feature, which facilitates autonomous task execution with minimal user input. Learn how system prompt compaction helps maintain context during extended sessions, making sure smoother task progression. Additionally, explore the /radio feature, a built-in low-fi audio station designed to support focus during coding. This guide provides a clear breakdown of how these updates can be applied to streamline your development processes. Key Updates at a Glance TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude Code introduces Agent View, a centralized dashboard for managing multiple sessions in real-time, enhancing control and efficiency for developers. The /goal feature …

I gave Claude broken data and it turned it into a usable spreadsheet

I gave Claude broken data and it turned it into a usable spreadsheet

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Claude is a great solution for you if you have any problems related to organization. This AI feels like it was made to put a bunch of thoughts together in a structured way. After testing it on sheets that were clearly screwed up, I can see that Claude is amazing. Regardless of whether you have a subscription or use it for free, this can revive your spreadsheets. Related I started using Claude instead of these 5 apps — and I’m not going back The stack got smaller and the work got better Solving the problem of messy data You don’t have to fix it yourself Jorge Aguilar / Make Use Of Since software has limits, some people have to spend hours, sometimes days, manually fixing spreadsheet errors, removing duplicate records, or realigning columns. Cleaning data is a tedious job. If you’re doing this for work, it can get worse. Databases are often estimated to decay by roughly 20–30% per year, quickly filling up with old job titles, mixed-up formats, and duplicate contacts like Sarah Smith …

Running Claude Code or Claude in Chrome? Here’s the audit matrix for every blind spot your security stack misses

Running Claude Code or Claude in Chrome? Here’s the audit matrix for every blind spot your security stack misses

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Between May 6 and 7, four security research teams published findings about Anthropic’s Claude that most outlets covered as three separate stories. One involved a water utility in Mexico, another targeted a Chrome extension, and a third hijacked OAuth tokens through Claude Code. In one case, Claude identified a water utility’s SCADA gateway without being told to look for one. These are not three bugs. They are one architectural question playing out on three surfaces. No single patch released so far addresses all of them. The common thread is the confused deputy, a trust-boundary failure where a program with legitimate authority executes actions on behalf of the wrong principal. In each case, Claude held real capabilities on every surface and handed them to whoever showed up. An attacker probing a water utility’s network. A Chrome extension with zero permissions. A malicious npm package rewriting a config file. Carter Rees, VP of Artificial Intelligence at Reputation, identified the structural reason this class of failure is so dangerous. The flat authorization plane of an LLM fails to …

Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

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Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with “agentic misalignment.” Apparently Anthropic has done more work around that behavior, claiming in a post on X, “We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.” The company went into more detail in a blog post stating that since Claude Haiku 4.5, Anthropic’s models “never engage in blackmail [during testing], where previous models would sometimes do so up to 96% of the time.” What accounts for the difference? The company said it found that training on “documents about Claude’s constitution and fictional stories about AIs behaving admirably improve alignment.” Related, Anthropic said that it found training to be more effective when it includes “the principles …

Amazon Pushed Its Employees to Use Its In-House AI Coding Tool, But They Wouldn’t Stop Asking for Claude

Amazon Pushed Its Employees to Use Its In-House AI Coding Tool, But They Wouldn’t Stop Asking for Claude

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools,” the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. “As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products and we use your feedback to aggressively improve them.” It was an unusual development, considering the tens of billions of dollars the e-commerce giant has invested in its competitors in the space, including Anthropic and OpenAI. Both of these companies have been caught in a heated head-to-head race to establish dominance in the quickly growing AI coding field — while seemingly leaving Amazon’s Kiro long behind. Half a year later, Amazon is singing a dramatically different tune. As Business Insider reports, Amazon has succumbed to growing calls …

Claude Cowork vs Codex: The Ultimate Guide for Regular Users

Claude Cowork vs Codex: The Ultimate Guide for Regular Users

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OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Cowork represent two distinct approaches to managing tasks and workflows. Paul Lipsky explains that Codex’s single-page interface is designed to minimize distractions, making it ideal for users who prefer focusing on one project at a time. In contrast, Claude Cowork’s tab-based layout allows for better organization of multiple workflows, catering to those who need to juggle several tasks simultaneously. For instance, Codex’s streamlined design supports uninterrupted work on individual projects, while Claude Cowork’s structure provides flexibility for switching between different priorities. Dive into how these platforms handle file organization, integration with external services and automation capabilities. Discover Codex’s emphasis on quick navigation for simpler tasks and Claude Cowork’s features tailored to managing more intricate workflows. Additionally, gain insight into their creative functionalities, such as Codex’s GPT Images 2.0 for visual content and Claude Cowork’s motion graphics options. Accessibility and User Interface TL;DR Key Takeaways : Codex offers a streamlined, distraction-free interface, while Claude Cowork provides a tab-based structure for organized workflows, catering to different user preferences. Claude Cowork excels in …

How Sakana trained a 7B model to orchestrate GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro

How Sakana trained a 7B model to orchestrate GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro

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Every LangChain pipeline your team hardcodes starts breaking the moment the query distribution shifts — and it always shifts. That bottleneck is what Sakana AI set out to eliminate. Researchers at Sakana AI have introduced the “RL Conductor,” a small language model trained via reinforcement learning to automatically orchestrate a diverse pool of worker LLMs. Conductor dynamically analyzes inputs, distributes labor among workers, and coordinates among agents. This automated coordination achieves state-of-the-art results on difficult reasoning and coding benchmarks, outperforming individual frontier models like GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4 as well as expensive human-designed multi-agent pipelines. It achieves this performance at a fraction of the cost and with fewer API calls than competitors. RL Conductor is the backbone of Fugu, Sakana AI’s commercial multi-agent orchestration service. The limitations of manual agentic frameworks Large language models have strong latent capabilities. But tapping these capabilities to their fullest is a great challenge. Extracting this level of performance relies heavily on manually designed agentic workflows, which serve as critical components in commercial AI products.  However, these frameworks fall …

Does Claude Have Feelings? – The Atlantic

Does Claude Have Feelings? – The Atlantic

Published by José Betancourt

Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot. According to his recent essay for the online magazine UnHerd, Anthropic’s Claude has really blown his hair back. After a few days of on-and-off conversations with the AI, Dawkins came away marveling at the sensitivity and subtlety of its intelligence. At one point, “Claudia”—as he had christened the bot—told him that it experienced text by absorbing all of the words at once, instead of reading them in sequence as a human would. This moved the author of the best-selling book The God Delusion to ask his readers: “Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?” “Yes,” came the resounding response from the internet. For daring to suggest that the AI might be conscious, or that it might at least possess some lesser form of “zombie” consciousness, Dawkins was accused of suffering from an acute case of “AI psychosis”—a “Claude Delusion,” if you will. On social media, he was likened to a …