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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.
Anthropic seeks Google backing for data-centre leases
Anthropic has signed preliminary deals to lease over 1GW of US data centres and wants Google to guarantee the payments, per a report, as its IPO nears.
OpenAI files for US IPO as AI giants race to public markets
OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US IPO at a valuation of up to $1tn, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a rush to public markets that will test investor appetite.
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: 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.
Salesforce forecast disappoints as 'SaaSpocalypse' fears bite
Salesforce beats Q1 estimates but Q2 guidance falls below consensus as Wall Street prices in AI-driven displacement of traditional software.
Pope Leo XIV publishes 'Magnifica Humanitas' encyclical on AI and dignity
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical addresses AI and human dignity, with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah attending the Monday Vatican unveiling.
Anthropic and KPMG sign Big Four alliance to deploy Claude to 276,000 staff
Anthropic and KPMG have agreed a global alliance giving every one of KPMG's 276,000+ staff Claude access and embedding it in the firm's Digital Gateway client platform.
Anthropic to brief Financial Stability Board on Mythos cyber risks
Anthropic will brief the Financial Stability Board on cyber vulnerabilities exposed by its Mythos AI model, at the request of BoE Governor and FSB chair Andrew Bailey.
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.
Anthropic ships 12 legal plug-ins for Claude with Westlaw, Harvey, Box integration
Anthropic has expanded Claude for law firms with 12 practice-specific plug-ins and live integrations into Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel and Westlaw, Harvey, Box, Everlaw and DocuSign.
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.
OpenAI launches $4bn enterprise deployment unit and acquires Tomoro
OpenAI is setting up a $4bn Deployment Company with TPG, Advent, Bain and Brookfield, and is buying UK-linked consulting firm Tomoro to staff the unit.
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'.
Anthropic launches policy research arm with four-pillar agenda
The Anthropic Institute will publish research on economic diffusion, threats and resilience, AI systems in the wild and AI-driven R&D from inside the frontier lab.
Dawkins says he believes AI may be conscious after Claude chats
Richard Dawkins describes Anthropic's Claude as feeling 'human' after a multi-day conversation, drawing pushback from sentience researchers.
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.
Anthropic: 6% of Claude chats are personal guidance; relationship advice was 25% sycophantic
Anthropic's privacy-preserving analysis of 1m chats finds 6% seek personal guidance; sycophancy peaked at 25% in relationship conversations and 38% in spirituality.
Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon, joining OpenAI and xAI
Google has agreed a deal letting the US Department of Defense use its AI for any lawful purpose on classified networks, with adjustable safety filters.
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 adds Spotify, Uber and Audible connectors to Claude
Claude now connects directly to personal apps including Spotify, Uber Eats, AllTrails, Audible, TurboTax, Instacart and TripAdvisor across all plans, with mobile in beta.
Anthropic commits £75bn to AWS for decade of Claude compute
Anthropic will spend £75bn (0bn) at AWS over ten years for up to 5GW of Trainium capacity, with Amazon topping up investment by £19bn.
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.
Anthropic quadruples London office to 800-person footprint
Anthropic signs a 158,000-sq-ft London lease with space for 800 staff, landing next to DeepMind and OpenAI and deepening ties with the UK AI Security Institute.
Adobe launches Firefly AI assistant with Anthropic Claude integration
Adobe's new autonomous creative agent taps Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro; will also ship as a Claude-accessible connector.
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.
US Treasury and Fed summon bank CEOs over Anthropic AI cyber risk
Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell convened Wall Street leaders for an urgent meeting over cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic's new Claude Mythos model.
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 Blocks Third-Party Tool Usage on Claude Subscriptions
Anthropic has cut off third-party agent harnesses such as OpenClaw from Claude subscription plans as it struggles to keep up with surging demand.
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.
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.
US Military Confirms Use of AI Tools in Iran Conflict
CENTCOM head Admiral Cooper says AI helps process data in seconds, while China warns against unrestricted military AI as civilian casualties mount.
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.
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.
AI Distillation Row Escalates as Anthropic Accuses Chinese Labs
Anthropic claims DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot ran 'industrial-scale' campaigns using 24,000 fake accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
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.
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.
Meet the Philosopher Who Teaches Claude AI Right From Wrong
Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, wrote Claude's 30,000-word instruction manual and believes AI models will inevitably form senses of self.
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.
Music Publishers Sue Anthropic for $3 Billion Over Alleged Piracy
Concord and Universal Music Group claim Anthropic illegally downloaded 20,000 copyrighted songs, including sheet music and lyrics.
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.
