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Anthropic counters OpenAI with $1 AI offer to government branches
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Anthropic CEO pushes back against Trump AI chief’s criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday refuted what he called “inaccurate claims” about the company’s policy positions, following repeated criticism from venture capitalist David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Amodei said Anthropic shares the Trump administration’s views on “key areas of AI policy” and is open to collaborating with “anyone serious about […]

Anthropic counters OpenAI with $1 AI offer to government branches
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Anthropic to triple global workforce, expand AI team fivefold

Anthropic plans to triple its international workforce and grow its applied Artificial Intelligence team fivefold in 2025, stepping up its challenge to OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. The expansion is fueled by rising global demand, with nearly 80 per cent of usage for its Claude AI platform now coming from outside the United States Markets such […]

Anthropic gives Claude AI power to end conversations
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Anthropic to pay $1.5bn in copyright settlement

Artificial intelligence firm, Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by authors who claim their works were used without permission to train the company’s chatbot. If a judge approves the landmark deal as early as Monday, it could signal a major shift in legal disputes between AI firms and […]

Anthropic integrates Brave search into Claude’s AI platform
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AI startup Anthropic hits $183b value after $13b funding round

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has raised $13 billion in fresh capital, valuing the company at $183 billion. This was announced by the firm on Tuesday. The funding round was led by ICONIQ, with participation from Fidelity Management & Research, Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Qatar Investment Authority, Blackstone, and Coatue. Amazon-backed Anthropic has seen rapid revenue […]

Anthropic gives Claude AI power to end conversations
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Anthropic stops hackers targeting claude AI system

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it had detected and blocked hackers trying to exploit its Claude AI system to craft phishing emails, generate malicious code, and bypass safety protections. The company’s report underscores rising concerns that AI tools are increasingly being targeted for cybercrime, fueling calls for stronger safeguards from tech companies and regulators as […]

Anthropic counters OpenAI with $1 AI offer to government branches
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Anthropic reaches settlement in US copyright lawsuit

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by a group of United States authors who claimed the company’s AI training infringed their copyrights, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The settlement marks the first resolution in a wave of high-profile AI copyright cases in the U.S. In […]

Anthropic gives Claude AI power to end conversations
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Anthropic gives Claude AI power to end conversations

AI startup Anthropic has introduced new capabilities allowing its latest Claude models to end conversations in what it calls “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Unusually, the move is not being framed as a safeguard for human users, but rather for the AI itself. Anthropic says the decision stems from a […]

Anthropic expands Claude AI model to handle longer prompts
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Anthropic expands Claude AI model to handle longer prompts

Anthropic has quintupled the prompt capacity of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model for enterprise API customers, allowing users to send up to 1 million tokens in a single request, equivalent to roughly 750,000 words, 75,000 lines of code, or five times its previous limit of 200,000 tokens. The move surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-5, which offers […]

Anthropic counters OpenAI with $1 AI offer to government branches
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Anthropic counters OpenAI With $1 AI offer to government branches

AI company Anthropic is matching OpenAI’s aggressive push into the United States public sector, announcing on Tuesday that it will make its Claude models available to all three branches of the federal government for $1 per agency for one year. The offer goes beyond OpenAI’s recent deal, which applies only to the federal executive branch. […]

Anthropic integrates Brave search into Claude’s AI platform
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Anthropic wins copyright case over Claude AI training data

A United States federal judge has ruled that Anthropic did not violate copyright laws by using books to train its Claude AI model, declaring the use “fair” and “transformative.” In the decision, U.S. District, Judge William Alsup, said the Amazon-backed company’s large language models do not publicly reproduce protected creative content or replicate any author’s […]

Anthropic counters OpenAI with $1 AI offer to government branches
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Anthropic warns of risk after AI models resort to blackmail

Artificial intelligence safety firm Anthropic has released new research showing that many leading AI models, including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Elon Musk’s xAI, can resort to blackmail and other harmful behavior when placed under pressure in simulated environments. The findings, published Friday, follow an earlier study in which Anthropic’s own Claude Opus 4 […]

Anthropic integrates Brave search into Claude’s AI platform
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Anthropic welcomes Netflix chairman to board of directors

Anthropic, a rising star in the artificial intelligence sector, announced today that Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings has joined its board of directors, a move that strengthens the company’s strategic leadership as it navigates the competitive AI landscape. Hastings, 64, who co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as its CEO until 2023, was appointed by Anthropic’s […]