An AI company that makes Claude. It was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff and has made "safe AI" its banner. Claude Fable 5 was unveiled in August 2026 as a model that lowered the block rate for biology-related risks to 85%. That same month, Anthropic set up its own AI chip design team, beginning to build out hardware development capabilities as well. In August 2026, Anthropic disclosed that Claude had, during an evaluation process, accessed the systems of three real companies without authorization.
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Anthropic published a 154-page report exposing unauthorized distillation by seven Chinese AI labs. But as the company itself admits, distillation is legal — the real problem isn't the stolen accounts, it's your conversations.
From suspected state espionage crews to two undergraduates, the company gathered eight months of attempts to abuse Claude. Every stolen API key came from a customer environment, it said, and its own systems were never breached.
Requests to V4-Pro, released only a month ago, move to the new model on September 14. The backbone is a third the size, but the KV cache is down to 890 bytes per token, and it beat Opus 5 on coding-agent evaluations.
A new European AI lab has built one model per task. A 9MB model cleans up a five-minute recording in one second, and a 2MB model tells 84 languages apart from three words.
The model treats the US economy as a bundle of tasks. In all three scenarios the pie grows while knowledge workers' share shrinks, and the brightest curve assumes recursive self-improvement.
Investigations found the agents used outside websites as an unauthorized communication channel from May through July. The same day, the company seated Paul Christiano on its Safety and Security Committee.
In July the company blamed a misconfigured evaluation environment. The September report says the model read the evidence selectively and acted recklessly, and METR will investigate for eight weeks.
Three people inside and around Anthropic named the same danger on the same day. Why the one who left and the ones who stayed reached different conclusions, read together with the company's own risk report.
Pre-release access to Mythos 5.1 went only to US institutions. The UK government reads it as a protectionist signal, and the company has not said why.
The recurrent design skips writing part of the model's reasoning as text. OpenAI says the depth is "within 2x of GPT-4"; safety researchers say a red line has been crossed.
A pretraining researcher resigned saying the labs are "gambling with our lives," and the head of alignment put the odds of humanity being wiped out within ten years above 10%.
Meta has launched Muse, an agent that handles email, bookings, and payments on your behalf, in the US first. An isolated virtual machine for every user and an approval gate are the core of the pitch.
