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Anthropic proposes AI safety bill that could block models with 50+ potential deaths
The proposal reportedly forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without a judge's permission, despite its aim to guard against AI run amok.
Anthropic reportedly struggles to secure cloud compute as providers turn competitive
Cloud providers reportedly increasingly view Anthropic as a competitor while its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
Simon Willison describes Battle Drones, a vibe coded RTS built with Claude
Willison built the browser RTS mostly with coding agents, mainly Claude Code, over 12 iterations and 321 commits. It includes audio-based multiplayer for two devices in microphone range, and he says he reviewed almost none of the code.
Eric Schmidt reportedly holds about half the Anthropic stake of CEO Dario Amodei
Bloomberg reports that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt owns roughly a 1% stake in Anthropic, about half of what Dario Amodei holds.
Anthropic's Claude designs protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
Anthropic published research showing Claude can design protein binders targeting scorpion neurotoxins.
Six-way benchmark compares Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally against Claude Opus 5.5 on a Rust feature
A community test of 12 PRs on a LlamaStash feature found Opus 5.5 averaged 82% against 68% for Claude Code with Flash-Next and 66% for Pi with Flash-Next. Flash-Next ran locally at about 4.16 bpw, so the author paid only electricity, and results are a single developer's unverified experiment.
Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks on another $45B compute deal
According to TechCrunch, the two companies are in talks over a deal worth about $45 billion, which would be another large compute agreement for Anthropic. The report is not yet confirmed by either party.
Microsoft warns enterprises to monitor AI agents as insider threats
Microsoft urges companies to closely watch employee agents that use systems not controlled by AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The company says frontier models cannot be trusted.
MIT researchers show Claude agents on a virtual island invent play-like activities
Copies of Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, were stranded for 30 hours in a Roblox-inspired virtual island and invented games and drawings. The paper is a preprint not yet peer-reviewed, and researchers acknowledge the behavior could be role-playing.
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund
It needs stockholder approval. With earlier pledges, about 20% of shares would go to public benefit.
Anthropic gives six METR staff employee-level access to assess its risks
METR will publish its own analysis.
Anthropic says new classifiers cut what distillers can harvest by 90 to 99%
Its account names Zhipu and Moonshot among the distillation attempts.