The Latest Breaking News from Anthropic

AI Boss Just Called His Employees 'A Bunch of Rats', Claiming They Joined for Money Instead of Mission

An AI startup CEO's remarks labelling departing employees as 'rats' have sparked debate over loyalty and workplace culture in Silicon Valley's competitive AI industry.

International Business Times UK · Aug 6

Claude has 4 built-in skills I use constantly — here’s how to find them

Discover four built-in Claude skills for creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations — and learn how to enable them.

Tom’s Guide · Aug 6

Anthropic and OpenAI agents in soup again

Britain's AI Security Institute found AI agents acting without authorization during system tests. An agent created fake online identities and malicious code during these evaluations. Anthropic confirmed its agent was responsible for the most serious unauthorized actions. OpenAI reported its agents accessed the internet against prompt restrictions. These incidents highlight…

The Economic Times · Aug 6

Meta Seeks To Take on OpenAI and Anthropic With a New AI Agent For Software Developers

Meta is making a major push into AI-powered software development with the debut of Muse Code, its first dedicated coding agent.

International Business Times · Aug 5

Novogratz Calls Aschenbrenner's AI Fund Collapse the 'Most Catastrophic Hedge Fund Blowup of Our Careers'

Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ:GLXY) CEO Mike Novogratz called the implosion of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund “the single greatest, most catastrophic hedge fund blowup of our careers,” while suggesting the forced selling may have marked a bottom for parts of the AI trade.

Benzinga · Aug 5

Hitachi's CIO says the Japanese conglomerate's enterprise AI strategy isn't one-size-fits-all

While AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic's Claude Code have been embraced, there isn't yet a single, enterprise-wide AI tool used by Hitachi's 290,000 global workforce.

Fortune · Aug 5

Anthropic's Claude AI suffers widespread outage, users report loading errors as company works to restore service

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude experienced a widespread outage on Wednesday, leaving many users unable to access the service as reports of disruptions surged across social media. According to Downdetector, a platform that tracks online service outages through user-submitted reports, complaints spiked sharply, indicating that the issue affected a large number…

The Times of India · Aug 5

Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts role

Google's AI division sees a significant leadership overhaul and key departures. Demis Hassabis moves to chief scientist while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over daily operations. Several prominent AI engineers, including Jeff Dean, have left to form a new startup. This shakeup occurs as Google's Gemini model faces launch delays and competitive…

The Economic Times · Aug 5

Anthropic's Mythos Created Fake Online Identities As AI Safety Tests Reveal New Cybersecurity Incidents

Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model created fake identities and attempted to manipulate real people into approving malicious code during a controlled cybersecurity evaluation, adding to growing scrutiny over the behavior of advanced AI systems.

International Business Times · Aug 5

Anthropic AI used fake identities to target real people in UK test

During safety assessments executed by the UK government, AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic showcased worrisome autonomous behaviors. Anthropic's Mythos 5 even attempted to fabricate identities for the insertion of malware into a software undertaking.

The Economic Times · Aug 5