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Founded2021

Key PeopleDario Amodei, Daniela Amodei

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

ProductsClaude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Security

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Trump won't create an AI regulator, departing adviser Sriram Krishnan says amid rising backlash

Sriram Krishnan, Trump's departing AI adviser, firmly rules out creating an FDA for AI, calling centralized licensing "sand in the gears" of innovation. His stance comes as public backlash against AI intensifies, with 75 data center projects worth $130 billion disrupted by local opposition in early 2026, even as the White House uses emergency powers to halt advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Trump won't create an AI regulator, departing adviser Sriram Krishnan says amid rising backlash

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Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on AI coding

Meta unveiled Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding and complex enterprise tasks. Priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, the model aims to undercut competitors while delivering comparable performance. The launch includes a new Meta Model API now available in public preview for US developers.

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Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on AI coding

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Anthropic's Hidden Tracker Monitored Chinese Users

Anthropic removed a secret tracker from Claude Code after a researcher exposed hidden code monitoring Chinese users. The discovery prompted Alibaba to ban the AI tool, classifying it as high-risk software. The incident escalates tensions in the US-China AI conflict as both companies accuse each other of security violations and model theft.

Technology17 sources

Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Anthropic's Hidden Tracker Monitored Chinese Users

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US-China AI tensions reach new heights as both nations move to restrict each other's models

The geopolitical standoff over AI intensified this week as Beijing held talks about curbing overseas access to Chinese AI models while Washington probed American companies adopting cost-effective AI alternatives from China. Both nations now treat advanced AI as a critical national asset requiring stringent controls, with officials citing national security concerns and ideological influence of AI systems.

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US-China AI tensions reach new heights as both nations move to restrict each other's models

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Emails reveal Anthropic's standoff with Pentagon over autonomous weapons and surveillance AI

Court documents released this week expose the heated email exchange between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon undersecretary Emil Michael that led to their breakup earlier this year. The dispute centered on whether the Department of Defense could use Anthropic's AI models for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance—two uses Amodei firmly rejected despite Pentagon demands for 'all lawful uses.'

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Emails reveal Anthropic's standoff with Pentagon over autonomous weapons and surveillance AI

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Anthropic's Claude models shift AI from answers to autonomous task execution

Anthropic has redeployed Claude Fable 5 with stronger safeguards and released Claude Sonnet 5 for all users, marking a shift in how AI models handle work. Rather than simply answering questions, these models tackle multi-step tasks, verify their own work, and complete projects from start to finish with minimal human intervention.

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Anthropic's Claude models shift AI from answers to autonomous task execution

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Anthropic moves to close loopholes allowing Chinese companies to access Claude AI tools

Anthropic is cracking down on unauthorized access to Claude AI after discovering Chinese companies like Ant Financial and ByteDance have been using workarounds including overseas subsidiaries, cloud providers, and VPNs to bypass its stringent restrictions. While these methods don't violate US or Chinese law, they breach Anthropic's terms of service, which explicitly ban Chinese companies from using its models.

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Anthropic moves to close loopholes allowing Chinese companies to access Claude AI tools

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Anthropic enters talks with Samsung to develop custom AI chip, challenging Nvidia's dominance

Anthropic has begun early-stage discussions with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip, marking the Claude developer's first move into in-house silicon. The talks, still preliminary, focus on Samsung's 2nm manufacturing process as Anthropic joins rivals OpenAI, Google, and Amazon in reducing dependence on Nvidia, which controls 74% of the AI chip market.

Technology5 sources

Anthropic enters talks with Samsung to develop custom AI chip, challenging Nvidia's dominance

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AI Boom Drives Global Venture Funding to Record $510 Billion in First Half of 2026

Global venture funding reached an unprecedented $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing all of 2025's $440 billion total. The AI boom drove this record-breaking venture funding, with OpenAI and Anthropic alone capturing $217 billion—43% of all startup investment. While capital concentrated heavily in frontier AI labs, mega-rounds expanded across AI infrastructure, defense, robotics and healthcare, signaling the AI's outsized impact on the venture capital landscape.

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AI Boom Drives Global Venture Funding to Record $510 Billion in First Half of 2026

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Alex Karp unleashes on OpenAI and Anthropic as AI industry faces growing enterprise backlash

Palantir CEO Alex Karp launched a scathing critique of frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, declaring that 'something has gone completely wrong' with their token-based pricing models. In a high-energy CNBC appearance, Karp claimed CEOs are 'livid' about rising AI costs and minimal returns, while enterprises increasingly turn to cheaper Chinese models and open-weight alternatives. The controversy highlights mounting tensions in the AI industry as businesses demand better value and control over their data.

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Alex Karp unleashes on OpenAI and Anthropic as AI industry faces growing enterprise backlash

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UAE's MGX closes $49 billion AI fund, one of the biggest investment vehicles focused on AI ever

Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund MGX has closed a $49 billion AI fund, marking one of the largest investment vehicles ever focused on artificial intelligence. The technology investment firm attracted global institutional investors and plans to deploy up to $10 billion annually across the AI stack, from semiconductors to frontier models, with major backing already committed to OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.

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UAE's MGX closes $49 billion AI fund, one of the biggest investment vehicles focused on AI ever

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Claude AI helps researcher expose critical flaw in Front Gate Tickets used by major US festivals

Security researcher Ian Carroll used Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 to discover a vulnerability in Front Gate Tickets, a Live Nation subsidiary handling ticketing for nearly every major US music festival. The flaw could have allowed attackers to issue free VIP tickets worth thousands of dollars and access millions of customer records. Front Gate patched the vulnerability within 24 hours, but the incident highlights AI's growing capability to uncover exploitable bugs across the internet.

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Claude AI helps researcher expose critical flaw in Front Gate Tickets used by major US festivals

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Claude Fable 5 returns with aggressive safeguards that block routine coding tasks

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 has returned after a three-week government-ordered shutdown, but the AI model now comes with significantly more aggressive safety restrictions. The new safeguards frequently route coding and debugging requests to the less capable Claude Opus 4.8, leading many developers to question whether the premium model is worth using at all.

Technology11 sources

Claude Fable 5 returns with aggressive safeguards that block routine coding tasks

Technology11 sources

CIA Director calls cutting-edge AI 'digital nuclear weapons' as US tightens export controls

CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared the most advanced AI models to nuclear weapons, defending the Trump administration's unprecedented export controls on frontier AI technology. The June 12 restrictions forced Anthropic to cut access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5, while OpenAI agreed to government vetting of GPT-5.6 clients, marking a shift toward de facto AI licensing.

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CIA Director calls cutting-edge AI 'digital nuclear weapons' as US tightens export controls

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 with stronger agent capabilities and half the cost of Opus

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier AI model yet, designed to handle multi-step automation at $2 per million input tokens—less than half the price of Opus 4.8. The model delivers enhanced reasoning and tool use while addressing safety concerns around prompt injection and hallucinations, though it deliberately avoids cybersecurity training following recent regulatory scrutiny.

Technology20 sources

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 with stronger agent capabilities and half the cost of Opus

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