All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I glanced at my phone and was puzzled to see my colleague Ash Roy calling. In and of itself it might not have seemed strange to get a…
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Alphabet, Amazon stakes in Anthropic boost profit by billions
Alphabet and Amazon were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits. At both companies, earnings were boosted by the increased value of their stakes in…
Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot
ANTHROPIC is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to…
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it had partnered with the Department…
$1.5 billion Anthropic AI settlement gets preliminary OK from U.S. judge
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally…
Big Tech is Under Pressure From Emerging AI Giants. How Will This Change Hollywood?
This is no AI illusion. A perfect storm appears to be gathering around the world of generative artificial intelligence that promises to have profound effects on how Hollywood does…
Researchers studied how Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek identify hate speech. Here’s how they vary
Google, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Anthropic vary widely in how they identify hate speech, according to new research. The study, from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement…
LISTEN: Hollywood’s Legal Fights Over AI Intensify; ‘SNL’ Comings and Goings for Season 51
On the latest episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety journalists analyze the recent jousts between Hollywood and key AI firms in copyright battles that are raging in the federal…
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to book authors to settle AI copyright suit
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has agreed to pay a record-setting $1.5 billion to a group of book authors and publishers in order to settle a class action lawsuit. The payout is…
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on…
Should AI Get Legal Rights?
In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar idea was once championed by none other than…
Anthropic more than doubles its valuation to $183 billion after raising $13 billion
Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it is now valued at $183 billion post-money, over twice as much as its earlier valuation, as investor enthusiasm towards AI…
The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a stark warning. “There are definitely some groups that are using AI to…
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors
Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in one of the most significant ongoing AI copyright…
GPT-5 Doesn't Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence
Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in favor of a colder, more businesslike one (a move…
The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software
Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman's other company. It was a super weird vibey crypto eye-scanning thing at a…
US agency approves OpenAI, Google, Anthropic for federal AI vendor list
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have been added to a list of approved AI vendors, the US government’s central purchasing arm said on Tuesday (Aug 5), as…
These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
What should these protocols say about security? Researchers and developers still don’t really understand how AI models work, and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all the time. For…
Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the…
Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All
Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing…
Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
Microsoft and OpenAI announced on Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US. The National Academy for AI…
What Could a Healthy AI Companion Look Like?
What does a little purple alien know about healthy human relationships? More than the average artificial intelligence companion, it turns out. The alien in question is an animated chatbot…
Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri in major reversal
Apple is considering using artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, sidelining its own in-house models in a potentially…