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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.
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.
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 The paper is a preprint not yet peer-reviewed, and researchers acknowledge the behavior could be role-playing.