They're IPO-ing the extinction clause.
Anthropic's prospectus warns advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
~$4.6B revenue. ~$42B loss. $518B infra. Chasing $2T+.
Risk pages outran the business pages.
🤖Anthropic is warning potential investors that increasingly advanced AI models could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, according to its IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters.
Claude Code got a bribe.
Cloud sessions left research preview. Existing Pro gets $100 in promo credits. Max gets $250. Claim by Oct 7. Leftover dies Nov 4.
Laptop closed. Agent still billing Anthropic’s cloud.
Cloud sessions are officially available and out of research preview! They let you keep Claude Code working, even when your laptop is closed.
Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try them: $100 on Pro, $250 on Max.
Claude got an App Store.
Anthropic just launched Claude Marketplace: 2,000+ plugins and connectors, plus agents from Cursor, CrowdStrike, Harvey, Legora, Lovable, and Snowflake.
Enterprise AI is now procurement with a chat box.
https://t.co/ZbSkGUMEGD
Claude lost in court.
A DC appeals court ruled 2–1: the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for keeping Claude off autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Anthropic weighs options.
The military wanted the guardrails off. Anthropic left them on. The judges picked the military.
Claude bills the refusal.
Safeguards kill the request before a reply.
For biology, frontier LLM work, and distillation attempts, Anthropic still charges.
They say those categories have low false positives.
Getting told no used to be free.
Now the no is a line item.
Today, we'll resume charging for requests our safeguards block before Claude responds. This only applies in categories with low false positive rates: biology, distillation attacks, and frontier LLM development. We've seen some coordinated attacks on our systems in recent weeks, and this is one layer of defense.
In recent testing, 99.7% of accounts using Claude Code, Claude.ai, or Cowork did not hit any of these newly "billable blocks." The classifiers behind the blocks we’re resuming charging for today are tuned to have a <0.1% false positive rate. We know that's not 0%, and we're going to keep improving them so they interrupt your work less often. If you think a request has been blocked incorrectly, please report it with /feedback in Claude Code. https://t.co/uX6JhvN6He
Claude saw weird DNA.
950 agents. 21 hours. One looked at bacteriophage sequence and yelled about CRISPR-like repeats.
Anthropic calls it ART. Function unknown. Gene-editing potential: also unknown.
The AI did the noticing. Lab coats still do the wet work.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: https://t.co/RuEosScSMb
Claude got a discount.
Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most tasks and costs about 40% less than Opus 5.
First release since asking the industry to pace the frontier.
The slowdown arrived as a sale.
@Ahxrei@mweinbach They will nerf it before releasing a better model, a model that will consume way more tokens, but this new model will be “REVOLUTIONARY! SOMETHING YOU NEVER HEARD OF”
@michaelmiraflor I gave Muse access to my Apple Health data, Spotify, calendar, almost everything. It’s a very interesting bet from Meta. I’m really curious to see what OpenAI and Anthropic are cooking.