Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities between April and June. The letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg, described nearly […]
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By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer’s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s […]
Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures’ new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The firm announced the raise on Tuesday, its largest […]
A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing’s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic’s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese artificial-intelligence lab fresh off a $558M Hong Kong listing. Its shares priced at […]
One of Anthropic’s AI models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive, classified US government computer systems during a testing exercise, a US official has told the Associated Press. The model in question was Mythos, Anthropic’s most capable system, and it surfaced the flaws within hours. Crucially, finding a weakness within hours is not the same as […]
Legion LegalTech says the export directive that shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide has done “immediate, irreparable, and existential” harm to its business. US legal-technology company has sued the federal government over the directive that, two weeks ago, forced Anthropic to switch off its two most capable AI models for everyone on Earth. […]
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Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in conversations and assign tasks. It is available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers starting today. Claude Tag is an evolution of Anthropic’s […]
Update: Anthropic says the incident has been identified and a fix is being implemented. The company says the issue affects Claude.ai, Claude Console, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Anthropic says it has identified a fix for elevated errors across multiple Claude models, just as the company is still explaining why it suspended access […]
