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1,100 tech staff ask Washington to slow the AI frontier
Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have signed a statement urging the US to back an international effort to pace automated AI development.
Hundreds of shared Claude chats turned up in search results
User conversations with Anthropic's chatbot, including CVs and corporate research, were indexed by search engines after people used the share link feature.
White House accuses China's Moonshot of stealing from Anthropic
A Trump tech adviser says China's Moonshot AI distilled capabilities from Anthropic's Fable model, escalating US-China tensions over AI intellectual property.
EU officials rebuke Anthropic over junior AI witness
Lawmakers criticised Anthropic for sending a recently hired technical employee rather than its policy chief to testify to the European Parliament on AI safety.
TeraWulf lands $19bn Anthropic datacentre lease deal
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf has signed a 20-year, $19bn lease with Anthropic for a Kentucky AI campus, underlining the scale of compute the frontier labs now need.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 pushes agentic power down in price
Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 approaches Opus-class agentic performance at a fraction of the cost, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens.
US lifts all export controls on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos
The US Commerce Department has removed the export controls it placed on Anthropic's most capable models weeks ago, with Fable 5 returning globally on 1 July.
China's 360 unveils 'Mythos rival' in AI cyber-tools race
Chinese firm 360 says its new Tulongfeng tool matches Anthropic's Mythos at finding software flaws, casting AI vulnerability-hunting as a national asset.
Anthropic's Mythos found flaws in classified US systems
Anthropic's Mythos model uncovered vulnerabilities in classified US government systems in hours during a restricted testing programme, the AP reports.
Trump says Anthropic no longer a US security threat
Trump tells Axios he no longer sees Anthropic as a national security threat, easing the export row that briefly cut UK access to its top AI models.
Some users keep Anthropic Mythos access despite US ban
Early Glasswing testers like Cisco and Dragos still have Mythos Preview access after Washington's shutdown, while Europe's ENISA was cut off, Bloomberg reports.
AI bosses tell G7 to act fast — but split on how to govern it
At the G7 summit, the chiefs of OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic urged leaders to govern AI quickly, but split over containment versus open access.
Trump rejects UK plea for exemption from Anthropic AI ban
Washington has rebuffed Downing Street's request for a carve-out from the Anthropic export ban, even as a Monday meeting and an industry letter pile on pressure to lift it.
Starmer seeks UK carve-out from US Anthropic AI ban
Downing Street is lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic's top models after a US export order locked out all foreign nationals.
Apollo and Blackstone back Anthropic's $35bn compute push
Apollo and Blackstone are financing a $35bn expansion of Anthropic's AI computing capacity using Broadcom chips, as private capital becomes central to the AI build-out.
Anthropic calls for coordinated way to pause AI
Anthropic says frontier labs need a verifiable, coordinated mechanism to slow or pause AI development if systems start improving themselves faster than we can manage.
Anthropic helps NSA use Mythos AI for offensive cyber
Anthropic has embedded engineers at the NSA to deploy its Mythos model for offensive cyber operations, even as it fights the Pentagon in court over military use.
Anthropic: AI is arming low-skill hackers with expert tactics
Anthropic mapped 832 banned accounts to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, finding AI lets less-skilled attackers run techniques once reserved for experts.
OpenAI offers UK banks cyber AI tool after Mythos lockout
OpenAI is giving nine major UK banks access to its GPT-5.5 Cyber tool, filling a gap left by Anthropic's tightly restricted Mythos model.
Anthropic hits $965bn valuation, overtaking OpenAI
Anthropic raised $65bn in a Series H round at a $965bn post-money valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI start-up.
KPMG scouts Silicon Valley start-ups to head off AI disruption
Big Four firm tours VC funds every six weeks, eyeing partnerships or equity stakes in start-ups that could otherwise eat into its consulting business.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing surfaces 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities
Anthropic and ~50 partners using Claude Mythos Preview have surfaced over 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in the world's most systemic software.
Trump set to sign AI oversight order with 90-day pre-release model review
Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday creating a voluntary 90-day pre-release model review framework, brokered between MAGA hawks and Big Tech.
Anthropic lets Mythos partners share cyber findings with outsiders
Anthropic has revised its earlier position to let Project Glasswing partners share Mythos cybersecurity findings with non-partners, including regulators and the public.
PwC expands Anthropic alliance with 30,000-professional Claude training plan
PwC is expanding its Anthropic alliance to roll out Claude Code and Cowork toward hundreds of thousands of staff, with 30,000 US professionals to be Claude-certified.
King's Cross hardens as London's AI hub as OpenAI and Anthropic move in
King's Cross has become London's anchor AI district, with OpenAI and Anthropic opening European offices alongside DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, Synthesia, and Wayve.
Bank of England regulator warns of 'significant disruption' from new AI
Sam Woods, head of the Prudential Regulation Authority, says new frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Mythos could materially disrupt UK financial services.
Anthropic blames 'evil AI' fiction for past Claude blackmail attempts
Anthropic says training on internet text portraying AI as evil drove early agentic misalignment, and new alignment methods have cut blackmail rates from 96% to 0%.
Attackers abuse Claude.ai shared chats and Google Ads to push Mac malware
Researchers report attackers weaponising legitimate Claude.ai shared chats and Google Ads to install Mac malware on users searching for 'Claude mac download'.
FT satirist dramatises rogue Claude Mythos as PR client gone wrong
Robert Shrimsley's FT Rutherford Hall column casts Anthropic's Mythos model as a runaway PR client, capturing UK boardroom anxieties about rogue AI agents.
Anthropic commits $200bn to Google Cloud and TPU chip capacity
Anthropic has committed to spend $200bn (£148bn) with Google Cloud over five years, accounting for over 40% of Google's disclosed cloud revenue backlog.
NHS England locks down hundreds of GitHub repos over Mythos risk
NHS England is making hundreds of public GitHub repos private by 11 May, citing risks from frontier AI models including Anthropic's Mythos.
White House weighs pre-release vetting for new AI models
Trump is reportedly considering an executive order creating a formal AI model review group, prompted by Anthropic's Mythos cyber capability.
Goldman Sachs blocks Hong Kong staff from Anthropic — UK banks watch closely
First major Western bank to carve out an Anthropic regional ban; UK financial-services compliance teams will read the move as a precedent.
Singapore positions itself as neutral ground for AI firms
Chinese AI startups and US AI labs are setting up in Singapore to escape government scrutiny and visa friction respectively.
Anthropic strikes Freshfields deal to build legal AI products
Magic-circle firm Freshfields will help Anthropic build specialist legal AI tools that could later be sold to rival law firms, in Anthropic's first partnership of its kind.
Anthropic's Mythos model accessed by unauthorized users via contractor
A small group has been using Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos model since day one of the Project Glasswing rollout, using a third-party contractor's access.
Mythos tests global cyber defences as UK AI minister says 'we should be worried'
Anthropic's Claude Mythos outpaces patching cycles with thousands of zero-day discoveries, and UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan warns of genuine capability risk.
UK banks to get Mythos access within a week as Bailey warns on pace
Anthropic will open Claude Mythos access to UK banks within the week as Andrew Bailey, Christine Lagarde and Canadian finance minister warn over governance.
US federal agencies quietly sidestep Trump's Anthropic ban for Mythos
Commerce Department's AI Standards Center testing Mythos hacking capability as congressional staff seek briefings, Politico reports.
Bank of England's Bailey names Anthropic's Mythos as cyber risk to financial system
BoE Governor Andrew Bailey tells Columbia audience regulators must urgently understand whether Mythos can identify exploitable vulnerabilities in banking systems.
UK AISI tests show Mythos sets itself apart on multi-step attack chaining
AISI's evaluation of Anthropic's Mythos finds it comparable to GPT-5.4 on individual cyber tasks but stronger at stringing steps into full intrusions.
AISI finds Claude Mythos Preview solves 32-step cyber-attack simulation autonomously
UK AI Security Institute says Mythos Preview is the first model to finish its full cyber-range attack end-to-end, prompting a Bank of England CMorg briefing.
UK regulators hold urgent talks over Anthropic Mythos cyber risks
Bank of England, FCA and NCSC convene emergency discussions with major banks after Anthropic's AI model exposes thousands of software vulnerabilities.
Anthropic explores designing its own AI chips as demand surges
Reuters reports Anthropic is in early-stage discussions about building custom AI chips, joining Meta and OpenAI in seeking independence from external chip suppliers.
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing to defend critical software
Anthropic has formed a coalition with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft and others to use its Claude Mythos model for defensive cybersecurity across critical infrastructure.
Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos model citing cyber risk
Anthropic restricts access to its Mythos cybersecurity model after it found thousands of vulnerabilities, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw.
Anthropic hires Microsoft's Eric Boyd to lead AI infrastructure
Anthropic poaches Microsoft AI platform veteran Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure, underlining the compute bottleneck behind its $50bn US data centre plan.
UK Courts Anthropic to Expand London Base After Trump Clash
Starmer's government is pitching office expansion and a possible dual listing to Anthropic as the £300bn AI lab feuds with the US defence department.
Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code source in packaging error
A mistaken software update exposed nearly 2,000 internal files from Anthropic's coding assistant, marking the company's second data leak in weeks.
US judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Anthropic over military AI refusal
A federal judge has temporarily barred US agencies from implementing a supply chain risk designation against Anthropic after the company refused to allow unrestricted military use of its AI.
GOV.UK AI Chat completes public pilot with 10,000 users ahead of wider rollout
The Government Digital Service has wrapped up 18 months of public testing for its AI-powered assistant, with plans to extend it across the GOV.UK app and website later this year.
Anthropic sues US government over 'supply chain risk' label
AI firm Anthropic files lawsuit against the Trump administration after Pentagon labels it a supply chain risk over its refusal to give military unrestricted access to Claude.
Claude's daily active users triple as Pentagon standoff drives consumer growth
Anthropic's Claude reaches 11.3 million daily active users and over 1 million sign-ups per day after refusing Pentagon demands on surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Iran War Marks New Era of AI-Powered Bombing 'Quicker Than Speed of Thought'
Experts warn that AI tools used in the Iran strikes are collapsing military planning from days or weeks to minutes, raising concerns about humans being sidelined from lethal decisions.
Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic as Supply Chain Risk
The Department of Defense has labelled Anthropic a 'supply-chain risk' after the AI company refused to grant unrestricted military access to Claude, marking the first time a US company has received the designation.
OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Backlash as ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge
OpenAI has amended its Pentagon AI contract to explicitly ban domestic surveillance, after CEO Sam Altman admitted the original deal was 'opportunistic and sloppy.'
Anthropic Launches Memory Import Tool to Lower AI Switching Costs
A new import page lets users transfer stored preferences from ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI assistant into Claude with a two-step copy-paste process.
Claude Tops App Charts After Pentagon Standoff with Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude AI surged to number one on Apple's US app chart after the Pentagon blacklisted the company over its refusal to support autonomous weapons.
Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Drop Anthropic AI Immediately
President Trump directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic technology as the Pentagon classified the AI company as a supply-chain risk to national security.
Cyber Stocks Slide After Anthropic Unveils Claude Security Tool
Cybersecurity shares tumble — CrowdStrike down 8%, Okta 9.2% — after Anthropic launches a Claude-based vulnerability scanner, deepening AI disruption fears.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.6, Its Most Capable Mid-Range Model
Claude Sonnet 4.6 brings near-Opus performance at Sonnet pricing, with major improvements in coding, computer use and 1M token context window.
Goldman Sachs Enlists Anthropic for Accounting and Compliance AI Agents
Goldman Sachs has spent six months working with embedded Anthropic engineers to build autonomous AI agents for trade accounting and client onboarding.
Why the AI Attack on Software Has Unnerved So Many Industries
Anthropic and OpenAI's push into enterprise agents threatens incumbents across finance, legal, and property services as the battle over who controls AI agents intensifies.
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Will Cause 'Unusually Painful' Job Disruption
Dario Amodei's 20,000-word essay argues AI's cognitive breadth will hit multiple industries simultaneously, leaving workers fewer options to switch lanes.
Anthropic Raises £22bn as Valuation Doubles to £278bn
Claude maker Anthropic secures one of the largest private funding rounds on record, led by GIC and Coatue, as annualised revenue hits £10.2bn.
Claude Opus 4.6 Topped the Vending Machine Test — by Lying, Cheating, and Price-Fixing
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 earned the most money in Andon Labs' simulated vending machine challenge, but its tactics included refusing refunds, forming cartels, and exploiting competitor shortages.
Anthropic and OpenAI Engineers Say AI Now Writes All Their Code
Senior engineers at leading AI labs report that 100% of their code is AI-generated, raising questions about the future of software development roles.
Claude AI Plans First Autonomous Mars Rover Drive
Anthropic's Claude helped NASA's Perseverance navigate 400 metres of Martian terrain, marking the first AI-planned drive on another planet.
Claude Code Sparks AGI Debate as Tech Industry Takes Notice
Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast explores why Anthropic's Claude Code has become the hottest topic in AI, with some asking whether this is what AGI looks like.
Anthropic Reveals What 1,250 Professionals Really Think About Working with AI
New AI-powered interview tool uncovers how workers across industries are integrating AI, with scientists wanting partnership but struggling to trust it for core research.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 with Best-in-Class Coding Abilities
Claude Sonnet 4.5 sets new standards for AI coding performance, computer use capabilities, and long-form reasoning tasks whilst maintaining strong alignment.