Anthropic · Fri 6 Nov

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence safety and research company that develops the Claude family of assistant models and provides API access to them. Truncated covers its model releases, research papers, enterprise partnerships, funding announcements, and regulatory developments.

Friday 6 November

AI’s Newest Billionaires Want No Part of Superintelligence Race

AI-generated summary The three co-founders of AI lab Cohere hold stakes worth an estimated $1 billion each after the Toronto-based company reached a $25.5 billion valuation in its latest funding round, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. While Anthropic and OpenAI are said to be targeting valuations of more than $1 trillion, the co-founders are starting to question the race to build ever more powerful artificial intelligence.

Anthropic is making biotech boasts, but scientists are wary of hype around ‘curing cancer’

An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, Image 2 shows Andreas Bender speaking at the Oncode Accelerator Summit, Image 3 shows Biochemist Sarah Martin works in a laboratory at Servier Pharmaceuticals, holding a pipette over a test tube

AI-generated summary Anthropic has been promoting its biotechnology initiatives by opening a Bay Area biology lab, purchasing two biotech startups, and partnering with drugmakers such as Novo and Bristol Myers Squibb. While CEO Dario Amodei has made bold predictions about biological progress and curing cancer, medical professionals and industry experts warn that most drugs fail in clinical trials.

Anthropic's Claude Code Reportedly Leaks User Email Addresses Through HTTP User-Agent Headers

AI-generated summary Anthropic's Claude Code tool faces privacy concerns following a user report that email addresses were sent to third-party websites through HTTP User-Agent headers. GitHub user taylor-edwards reported receiving scam emails after using version 2.1.318 on macOS, while a comment noted that Anthropic planned to remove account emails from model context.