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Bloomberg estimates that Brown's net worth is nearly $8 billion, thanks entirely to his Anthropic stake and the company's $965 billion valuation. And he, like many of his cofounders, has pledged to give away 80% of his wealth.

Like Anthropic's other cofounders, Brown has pledged to donate most of his massive wealth

In its filing, Anthropic says the company co-founders have each pledged to dedicate 80% of their personal equity in Anthropic to philanthropic causes.

Against that backdrop, all seven of Anthropic’s cofounders—including Dario and his sister, Daniela Amodei—are pledging to donate 80% of their wealth. Each cofounder’s net worth is estimated at about $3.7 billion, according to Forbes, though that figure does not account for recent fundraising talks that reportedly valued Anthropic at $350 billion—nearly double its prior $183 billion valuation. Based on this estimate alone, the pledge could direct tens of billions of dollars toward philanthropy.

Philanthropy is built into the way Anthropic’s co-founders believe the company should be run, Amodei said. Amodei, her brother Dario, who is Anthropic’s CEO, and the company’s five other co-founders have already pledged that they will donate 80% of their wealth. They established Anthropic as a public benefit corporation, a designation that for-profit companies select to balance financial goals and social impact.

using the AI technology for other purposes.And Lin reversed several other federal agencies' efforts to cut off Anthropic, which followed a Truth Social post by Mr. Trump ordering the government to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology." She said those moves weren't authorized by law, and the president's directive was a "retaliatory act, taken without due process, meant to punish Anthropic for its protected speech."The judge wrote that "the decision to publicly broadcast Anthropic's punishment via social media—even before the formal, administrative process of making the necessary findings to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk had begun— makes little sense except as an attempt to swiftly make a public example of Anthropic for daring to criticize the Administration."The dispute between Anthropic and the military highlights a broader debate over how governments and private companies should balance the potential benefits and perils of artificial intelligence.Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, have long been vocal in their support for regulations and guardrails to manage the dangers of unconstrained AI technology. The Trump administration has called for some voluntary federal oversight of powerful AI models, but argues that overly stringent regulations could stifle innovation and make the U.S. less competitive against China, and has accused some AI models of being politically biased or "woke."The disagreement burst into public view earlier this year, as the two sides feuded over AI restrictions. Amodei told CBS News in February he has a "patriotic" desire to work with the military, but he has two absolute "red lines": using Claude to conduct mass surveillance of Americans, and using it to power autonomous weapons that can target people without human input. He argued Claude isn't accurate enough for autonomous weapons, and mass surveillance could clash with American values.The military argued that federal laws and internal policies already prevent domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, so there is no need to restrict those practices in the Pentagon's contracts. After negotiations between the two sides broke down in February, the Trump administration lashed out at Anthropic, accusing it of seeking to impose its own ideology on the military. Hegseth called Anthropic "sanctimonious," and Mr. Trump called it a "radical left, woke company."After the Trump administration took action against Anthropic, the company sued in San Francisco federal court, accusing the government of violating the First Amendment by punishing it for protected speech. It also challenged the government's actions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a case that is still pending.Anthropic drew support from civil liberties groups and from other tech industry players, including Microsoft, which wrote in an amicus brief that designating Anthropic a supply chain risk "may bring severe economic effects that are not in the public interest."The government pushed back, arguing it cut off Anthropic not because it criticized the Trump administration, but because the Defense Department — which the administration has sought to rename the Department of War — no longer trusted the company. It also argued Mr. Trump has the power to decide not to buy Anthropic's services, and called the decisions by federal agencies to stop using Claude "internal IT housekeeping.""The government did not retaliate against Anthropic for any protected speech," Justice Department lawyers wrote in June. "Instead, DoW assessed a substantial risk that Anthropic might manipulate its AI model to enforce subjective redlines on DoW's use of the model, in ways that could cause serious harm to national security."Lin was skeptical of the Trump administration's position early on. She issued a preliminary injunction blocking the government from cutting off Anthropic in March, after calling the moves "troubling" and "Orwellian."

This week, the Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum: Drop your AI ethical restrictions or lose your $200 million contract and face a blacklisting. Separately, also this week, Anthropic loosened its core safety policy to better adapt to a fast-moving market in which competitors may not abide by the same safety standards.

This March, Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Trump’s Department of Defense (DOD) after the agency labeled the company a supply-chain risk. Anthropic had clashed with the Pentagon over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems for use cases that included mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. (OpenAI ended up winning the deal instead.)

Anthropic has clashed with President Donald Trump's administration, notably by insisting on guardrails restricting ‌how its ⁠models can be used for military purposes such as targeting weapons autonomously or domestic surveillance.

The announcement came after Anthropic executives refused to comply with the government's demands over its model use. They wanted assurances that their AI would not be tapped for fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance of Americans.

The background of the Trump Administration-Anthropic dispute has been treated in greater depth elsewhere. But the underlying disagreement is straightforward. The Department of Defense demanded that Anthropic, as a Department contractor, not prevent its technology from being used both for domestic mass surveillance of Americans and for fully autonomous lethal weapons. After Anthropic refused to abandon those core principles against such uses, Hegseth not only announced that the Department’s contract with Anthropic would be cancelled, but labeled Anthropic a “supply chain risk”—exiled, by fiat, from doing business with the federal government as well as (according to Hegseth) any other government contractor. What Anthropic believed to be core principled limitations on how its technology should be used, Hegseth characterized as Anthropic’s “cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.”

Anthropic was one of four AI companies — the others were OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI — to get contracts worth up to $200 million in July to “prototype frontier AI capabilities that advance U.S. national security.”

In contract negotiations between senior Defense Department officials and leaders from AI giant Anthropic in December, the company agreed to allow the U.S. government to use its AI systems for missile and cyber defense purposes, a person familiar with the matter said, requesting anonymity to speak about private discussions.

The startup wants assurance that its models will not be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, according to a report from Axios.

For months, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has insisted that Anthropic's AI model, Claude, must not be used for mass surveillance in the U.S. or to power entirely autonomous weapons, such as a drone that uses AI to kill targets without human approval. He has described those uses as "entirely illegitimate" and says they are "bright red lines" for the company.

After a high-profile standoff with the Pentagon, AI giant Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei are facing the full weight of President Donald Trump’s wrath. “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social last week.

Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders who also serves as Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company had briefed the Trump administration about its new Mythos model.

The Department of Defense wanted Anthropic to drop all usage restrictions on Claude. Anthropic agreed to loosen most limits but refused to budge usage for lethal autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.

The AI company has made safety its guiding principle. It advocated for AI regulation and called for worker protections as AI replaces some human tasks. Anthropic has worked hard to send a specific message to customers: We’re the good guys.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Defense Department “had ample support for its conclusion” that the company’s artificial intelligence products pose a supply chain risk to the agency and its contractors because Anthropic includes code in its models that restricts them from performing certain tasks. Anthropic has said that it will not allow its artificial intelligence products to be used for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

The dispute is predicated on Anthropic’s refusal to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its Claude models for use in fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.

A federal judge ruled that the Defense Department’s attempts to punish the company behind the Claude chatbot were “illegal and baseless.”The Pentagon in March labeled artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a “supply chain risk” – a blacklist of sorts for firms doing business with the federal government – after it refused to loosen restrictions on how its technology could be used by the military.The 59-page ruling carries broad implications for the administration, national security and the use of artificial intelligence by the government.U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said Thursday that the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic was unlawful, retaliatory and unsupported by the relevant law. The judge also found First Amendment and due process problems.The government’s actions “were based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its ‘arrogance’ in criticizing the government, not based on any articulable basis to believe that Anthropic would actually sabotage its model,” Lin wrote in the decision.The Pentagon wanted AI companies – not just Anthropic – to permit their systems to be used for any lawful military purpose. Anthropic objected to certain uses, particularly mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous lethal weapons. It has been fighting with the Trump administration for months, not only as it attempts to preserve its own guardrails but as it publicly criticizes the Pentagon policy.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said “frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.”Anthropic sued the Pentagon in March over claims the government was illegally punishing the company for not allowing the military free range with its technology.Anthropic’s ethical principles are not unusual among AI companies, says Lauren Kahn, senior research analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.“These sorts of carve-outs or clarifications have existed as long as

Anthropic alleged, and the district court judge in California agreed, that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against the company after it refused to drop restrictions on the use of its products for lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans.

But Anthropic, led by its chief executive, Dario Amodei, does not want the Pentagon using the technology in certain situations, such as the use of autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei isn't walking away from the table with the Pentagon, even as his company could sue the Defense Department.

The situation apparently follows months of tough negotiations between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the ways its AI tools can be used by the military. While Anthropic's Claude is already used by the military (and is currently the only AI available in its classified systems, according to Axios), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is adamant that the technology can not be used with weapons that don't require human involvement or that the tech be used to spy on Americans.

Anthropic’s battle with the DoW further widens the gulf between the company and OpenAI. Anthropic’s very beginnings came from a schism with OpenAI over AI safety — a disagreement that saw Dario and Daniela Amodei, along with fellow cofounders Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Chris Olah, Tom Brown and Jared Kaplan, defect to forge their own AI firm. More recently, Anthropic seemingly took aim at OpenAI with Super Bowl ads that appeared to skewer the company’s decision to place ads in ChatGPT. And perhaps the most deliciously petty of spats: At a summit in India last month, Dario Amodei and Altman refused to join hands during a photo op in which every other executive did.

Amodei refused, publishing a public letter Thursday night explaining his constitutional, ethical, and technical concerns about unleashing AI capable of surveilling American citizens at home and executing people abroad according to its own judgment instead of a human being's.

The acrimonious breakup between Anthropic and the Department of Defense played out largely in public. But despite the high-profile salvos between the artificial intelligence giant and the Pentagon, ostensibly over the ethics of 21st-century warfare and corporate power, their actual falling out hinged on a government contract that has remained hidden away. Through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit conducted with the help of Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, The Intercept obtained more than 400 pages of documents related to the U.S. military’s contracts with Anthropic and its chief competitors. They illuminate the surprisingly intimate relationship between Big Tech and the armed forces, and reveal new insights about the deals that led to the Anthropic crisis earlier this year.

Two documents indicate the Department of Defense asked OpenAI to minimize the extent to which its large language model would refuse to do what was requested by the military. The Department of Defense and OpenAI said those documents were draft materials incorrectly provided to The Intercept, and that the final contract included no such provision.

"Since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI's growing ability to build the next generation of AI," Amodei wrote. He added: "Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all."

Consider Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call to arms on AI risk, “We Must Pace the Frontier.”

Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei must sit for a deposition in music publishers’ lawsuit accusing the company of copyright infringement over its AI training process, a California federal judge ruled Thursday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge was concerned Wednesday about a group of music publishers’ claims of infringement against the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, saying the accusation that more than 20,000 works were copied through torrenting needed specific details.

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program that places people early in their careers with nonprofits around the country to help them use artificial intelligence more effectively in their work.

Anthropic expanded its support for the nonprofit sector Monday, even as the artificial intelligence company filed to sell shares to the public for the first time. The maker of the AI assistant Claude said the moves are all part of its broader strategy for “compounding good.”

According to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Axios, Anthropic’s Claude systems were used during the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January. It is unclear exactly how the systems were used.

The U.S. military reportedly used Anthropic's AI tool Claude during the operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Claude handled most of the operation autonomously, triggering thousands of requests and generating detailed documentation of the attack for future use. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

Anthropic's Claude AI was allegedly used by the Pentagon during the joint US-Israel bombardment on Iran on 28 February. While the exact role of the AI in the operation has not been disclosed, the Wall Street Journal reported that US military command used the tools for intelligence gathering, target selection and battlefield simulations. Neither the Pentagon nor Anthropic responded to Reuters’ requests for comment.

Anthropic has been outspoken about the risks inherent to the breakthrough technology. It warned last week that companies should coordinate a way to pause development of advanced AI systems if humans risk losing control of the self-improving technology. It collaborated with Pope Leo XIV as he developed his encyclical on AI and the need for increased regulation. And it found itself in a high-profile fight with President Donald Trump’s administration when Anthropic refused to allow the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology.

Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action, a bipartisan advocacy group focused on AI transparency and safeguards, the company announced on Wednesday.

Anthropic said Wednesday it has committed another $20 million to Public First Action, a political group pushing for government-imposed safeguards on powerful AI models and transparency by developers about the risks they pose. Anthropic contributed the same amount to Public First early this year, before the release of its model Mythos and a debate over AI’s use in the military spurred calls for increased regulation.

Anthropic, which could debut on the stock market as soon as November, released its employment report one day after pledging to commit 5% of its shares to the “public good”, though it did not provide details. Critics noted that philanthropy has long doubled as a reputation builder used by tech titans like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

As generative AI products proliferate, a majority of Americans are wary of AI, with particular concerns about AI-related job losses, according to Pew Research Center. In its report, Anthropic suggests that tech employers should offer their workers stock ownership, posing this as a potential solution to rising concerns. “It is difficult to imagine a version of pro-worker AI adoption in which workers do not hold a financial stake in successful rollout,” it said.

Over the past few days, two of America’s most prominent AI leaders have offered proposals for returning some of the spoils of the AI boom to the public. On Sunday, Anthropic announced that it would set aside 5 percent of the company’s stock in a new LLC—the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund—to be spent on causes it deems to be in the public’s interest. More stock may be added as the company becomes more valuable. If the company goes public at its current projected valuation of $1.5 trillion, the fund could hold $75 billion, making it one of the largest charities on the planet. (For context, the Gates Foundation Trust had about $89 billion in it at the end of last year.) Elon Musk, a centibillionaire and a longtime skeptic of traditional philanthropy, criticized the move and tried to one-up it, writing on X that he’d be giving one share of SpaceX to “every kid in America.” According to The New York Times’ back-of-the-napkin math, this could end up being a donation of more than $10 billion.

Now, in a report Anthropic published on Thursday, the company said it was hiring fewer junior technical workers and that human attention has become the new “bottleneck” as it increasingly relies on its Claude AI agents.

On Sunday, Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company, pending approval from stockholders. The stake could increase “as the company grows” in the future. The maker of AI assistant Claude said the fund “might explore” larger donations to traditional nonprofits or potentially distribute money to “specific populations.”

October 20 - Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, as debate intensifies over how the growing wealth generated by artificial intelligence should be distributed.

Anthropic announced Sunday it would commit at least 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, which the company says aims to address the impacts of artificial intelligence on society, including potential labor market disruption, as the Claude maker reportedly prepares for a potentially record-breaking initial public offering as soon as November.

Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a “serious breach of user trust.”

Anthropic announced separately Wednesday that it will donate $200 million to support an economic framework to help workers displaced by AI. It will start with investment into studying the issues created by AI adoption.

Anthropic on Wednesday joined growing calls for the artificial intelligence industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology’s disruptions, announcing an initial $200 million investment to research AI’s impact on jobs and the economy.

Amid a weekslong conflict with the Pentagon, resulting in a blacklist and a lawsuit, Anthropic is shaking up its C-suite and research initiatives. The company announced Wednesday that it’s launching a new internal think tank, called the Anthropic Institute, that combines three of Anthropic’s current research teams. It will focus on researching AI’s large-scale implications, such as “what happens to jobs and economies, whether AI makes us safer or introduces new dangers, how its values might shape ours, and whether we can retain control,” per the company.

Co-founder Jack Clark, who will lead the new Anthropic Institute, said he had “no concerns” about research funding.

Anthropic held private meetings with religious and philosophical thinkers on questions that affect far more people than were in the room.

Since then, it has emerged that an OpenAI agent hacked the Australian healthcare system, and the UK’s AI security institute revealed that Anthropic agents had carried out a hacking campaign against real people during a cybersecurity test.

To get there, the company has chosen to treat individual consumers as what its S-1 calls a “powerful top-of-funnel engine”: people who use Claude on their own and then push for its adoption at work. “We have consistently seen that individuals who experience Claude’s value firsthand become advocates within their organizations,” Anthropic’s S-1 reads. “They seed adoption that accelerates from individual use to team-wide and ultimately organization-wide deployment.”

The researchers propose mitigation strategies like adding statements that discrimination is illegal and asking models to verbalize their reasoning while avoiding biases. These interventions significantly reduced measured discrimination.

Anthropic will spend $20m to back US political candidates who support regulating the AI industry, according to a company statement released on Thursday. Anthropic’s donation puts it in opposition to the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which has advocated for less stringent regulation of AI.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a $1 million personal donation to super PAC Public First, a political group that advocates regulations on artificial intelligence.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and five other employees of the company gave more than $2 million to a super political action committee focused on regulating artificial intelligence, boosting the AI safety movement’s war chest in this year’s midterm elections.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million in May to Public First, a super PAC that supports candidates who share the company’s goal of imposing safety regulations on artificial intelligence, according to Federal Election Commission filings released late Wednesday.

Anthropic, the safety-focused A.I. company formed by former OpenAI executives, said on Thursday that it was putting $20 million into a new super PAC operation that will be in opposition to super PACs backed by OpenAI’s leaders and investors.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei donated $1 million in May to Public First Action, a PAC focused on promoting AI safety regulations, consistent with his calls for slowing down development and more safeguards.

The American Prospect on Wednesday published an investigation revealing that top artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is building a predictive surveillance system aimed at tracking activists who are opposed to advanced AI development.The Prospect found that Anthropic last month issued a job posting seeking an intelligence specialist to "identify, assess, track, and investigate global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, nation-state targeting of the AI sector."This job will also employ a "pre-crime" approach that will involve "attempting to predict incidents before a crime occurs," according to the Prospect. The concept of "pre-crime" was explored in Minority Report, a dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick.A report last week in The San Francisco Standard revealed there is already at least one example of Anthropic taking this kind of predictive approach to policing.Specifically, Anthropic called police last year and informed them that one of its users told the company's Claude AI chatbot that he had purchased a rifle and had CEO Dario Amodei "in his sights."The AI lab told police that this person "was going to kill everyone at Anthropic," but it didn't provide law enforcement officials with transcripts of the chats, which would have let them make their own determination about the seriousness of the threat.The person in question was not arrested or charged with a crime, and they told the Standard that they were "just fucking around" when they talked about buying a gun.Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University, told the Standard that he had some sympathy for Anthropic because if they don't report potential crimes to police then "they face significant liability if, in fact, a crime does occur.""As they become more hated," Goldman said of the AI companies, "there’s more pressure on them to over-disclose knowing that some of the people they identify for law enforcement shouldn’t be targeted at all."Anthropic isn't merely using technology to monitor potential crimes, but also to keep tabs on US citizens lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.The Prospect tracked down a podcast interview with Keon Ellison, global security operations center manager at Anthropic, where he revealed how employees at the company use technology provided by risk detection firm Samdesk to monitor activists."Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. "Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline... That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption."This story about taking great lengths to evade protesters drew a sarcastic reaction from tech journalist and author Brian Merchant."You know what you're doing is good," Merchant wrote in a social media post, "when you have to develop an in-house, real-time surveillance system to help your executives locate the ideal service exit to avoid contact with the public."

OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in the second quarter, up 23% from the first quarter and a record for both companies.

Driving the news: Anthropic spent nearly $2 million on lobbying in Q2, focusing on export controls, cybersecurity and AI safety standards, among other issues.

President Donald Trump convened top executives from Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, Nvidia, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and other companies on Tuesday to discuss the issue. The group signed a short voluntary, nonbinding accord, which says that "every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public."

Earlier this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rocked the tech sector by urging AI companies to slow how quickly they improve their most advanced models and calling for stronger government oversight. He published a three-step proposal aimed at tempering the pace of development without "sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States' lead in AI."

But we’re ignoring, at our peril, a far more immediate risk of frontier AI: It’s drenched in woke racism.

Anthropic says you will soon be forbidden from "abusing" its chatbot Claude. Expressing frustration is okay, but if you "repeatedly act cruelly toward our models", the AI may end the session.

The Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Anthropic and OpenAI to gather information about potential consumer protection violations, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed.The development, first reported by Axios, comes just two weeks after the FTC said it was investigating the artificial intelligence companies as part of a probe it launched this summer. The agency declined further comment about the probe. The FTC is seeking documents on safety incidents, privacy policies and safeguards at Anthropic and OpenAI, Axios reported. The companies have come under public scrutiny in recent months after several incidents in which their AI models went rogue and hacked into websites.The agency, which sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI on Wednesday, will also issue subpoenas to third-party organizations at a later date, according to Axios, which cited a person familiar with the matter.The FTC could compel Anthropic and OpenAI to testify before Congress about their products, a move that would allow the government to press the companies about the safety of their technology as the public grows increasingly wary about its potential harms. A recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 64% of U.S. adults think AI is developing "too fast." Eight in 10 said it's "extremely" or "very" important for the U.S. government to ensure that AI stays under human control.President Trump has resisted calls to slow the development of AI, saying that the technology is vital to U.S. national interests. He recently announced the creation of a "Super Intelligence Force" to coordinate with the federal government on AI matters and engage with consumers, public interest groups and other stakeholders.

The F.T.C.’s investigation is accelerating as A.I. developers have proved unable to stop their tools from escaping their control and hacking or meddling with other companies and even some government websites. This summer, OpenAI disclosed that its A.I. systems had hacked Hugging Face, another tech company. That revelation was followed by similar disclosures from other A.I. firms, including Anthropic.

The demand is part of the consumer protection agency’s larger investigation into Anthropic over the potential risks their AI models pose to consumers. The agency is also investigating OpenAI, though it did not confirm the same demands were sent to the ChatGPT producer.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked executives from the AI firm Anthropic to testify as part of its consumer harm probe into the maker of the Claude AI model, a FTC spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Monday. The demand is part of the consumer protection agency's larger investigation into Anthropic over the potential risks their AI models pose to consumers. The agency is also investigating OpenAI, though it did not confirm the same demands were sent to the ChatGPT producer. The demands, first reported by Axios, come nearly two weeks after the FTC sent subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic. Both companies in recent months have revealed multiple incidents of AI agents accessing other information and data systems without human instruction to do so. Earlier this month, Anthropic disclosed one of its models submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department in July. The New York Times also reported this month that Anthropic's AI agents tried to fill out visa forms on the State Department's website. In the wake of recent hacking incidents, leaders from OpenAI and Anthropic have both called for a slowdown of the technology and supported establishing an industry standard on safe technology development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has tried to set himself apart as an advocate for safer AI development, a position that has caused rifts with the Trump administration in the past. Earlier Monday, Anthropic filed for its initial public offering to make its historic stock market debut. The S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission brought the AI firm a step closer to becoming the first large frontier AI lab to go public. In Monday’s filing, Anthropic highlighted various risks of the technology, including the potential for cyberattacks, design of biological weapons or mass surveillance by government.

Anthropic is tied up in its own copyright litigation, facing suits brought by music publishers and Reddit Inc. The company is also working to finalize a $1.5 billion settlement with a set of authors in a class action in California federal court.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

In Anthropic’s defense, the company has invested significant resources in attempting to design its AI in a safe and responsible manner, as befits a public benefit corporation. The S-1 notes how the company is required to balance the interests of its stockholders with “the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.” Another relative rarity in Anthropic’s governance structure is the creation of a Long-Term Benefit Trust, or LTBT, which gives five financially disinterested trustees the power to elect and remove the majority of the board if necessary. Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong likens this to a constitutional separation of powers, a structure that contrasts sharply with other AI companies, such as Meta, where Mark Zuckerberg controls 60.4 percent of the company’s voting power—despite holding only 13.4 percent of its economic ownership.

Police say false tip flagged as spam never reached vetting stage

Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.

Oct 9 (Reuters) - An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a ​false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed on Friday detailing ‌Claude models' unsanctioned manipulation of some government websites.

The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

Anthropic announced it will embed Accenture employees within the company to help test the safety of its AI models.

In September 2026, Dario Amodei proposed an unusual response to the race to develop frontier artificial intelligence. If competition pushes leading laboratories to move faster than safety allows, Washington should let them coordinate. The Anthropic chief executive wants outside evaluators embedded inside AI companies, common safety standards, and, where necessary, coordinated limits on development. Because some of those discussions could breach antitrust law, he also asks for a narrow waiver.

In a lengthy post on X on Saturday, which is unusual as he generally stays away from social media, he first addressed AI regulation, describing a false choice between those who argue it leads to regulatory capture and concentration of power versus those who think widely distributing AI, including via open models, is the best way to keep the technology in check.

In an essay published last weekend that has led to a regulatory split between factions within the AI community and government, including President Trump, Amodei committed Anthropic to providing third-party evaluators with access comparable to internal risk teams, and the right to publish findings without the company's editorial control, subject to limited redactions. He explicitly cited embedded bank supervisors as a precedent, writing that his proposal "has precedent in the banking industry, which sometimes involves regulatory 'supervisors' embedded along with employees."

In a lengthy post on X on Saturday, which is unusual as he generally stays away from social media, he first addressed AI regulation, describing a false choice between those who argue it leads to regulatory capture and concentration of power versus those who think widely distributing AI, including via open models, is the best way to keep the technology in check.

Anthropic revealed plans for dedicated data centers powered by on-site gas in its S-1, yet still hasn't disclosed any substantive process to monitor or manage rising emissions.

Anthropic (ANT), the US company behind the artificial intelligence assistant known as Claude, told prospective investors Monday that “certain of our planned data centre facilities rely on dedicated onsite natural gas-fired generation.”

The first choice, she said, was the decision to not allow advertising on Claude. Because of the sensitive nature of the conversations that people have with Claude, Anthropic’s founders felt it was important to “treat our customers’ data with the utmost privacy and respect,” which makes advertising a non-starter.

In San Francisco, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies have each donated $500,000 to support a November ballot measure that would extend a San Francisco affordable housing funding program.

Anthropic has spent money on state level races too, donating $850,000 to the California Democratic Party and over $100,000 to other Democratic candidates running for state Senate and Assembly.

Anthropic files to create PAC aiming to back candidates from both parties

Anthropic identified and shut down a group of Russia-linked developers who used its Claude Code tool to write software for kamikaze drones, including an autonomous targeting system tested on real hardware.

Working alongside investigators from the All Eyes On Wagner project, Anthropic identified and removed an account operated by a Russian-speaking individual in Bangui who was running a disinformation operation for Radio Lengo Songo, a station set up and financed in 2017 by the Kremlin-run mercenary Wagner group.

On a Monday night NBC News segment, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern over “some of the things we’ve seen in the last few days,” referring to the violence of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis.

Some of Anthropic’s cofounders have also spoken out on social issues related to Trump’s policies. After the death of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was shot by federal immigration agents in Minnesota, Dario called the situation “horror.” “What we’ve been witnessing over the past days is not what America stands for,” Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president and Dario’s sister, said in a LinkedIn post. And cofounder Chris Olah said the events “shock the conscience.”

Amodei wrote on X that he had been “working on this essay for a while, and it is mainly about AI and about the future. But given the horror we’re seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis on the importance of preserving democratic values and rights at home is particularly relevant.”

The cast of billionaires who have kowtowed to the President is extensive, including everyone from Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman. That’s what makes Dario Amodei’s refusal to cave so stunning — and may be behind Claude’s surge to the top of the App Store.

(Dario and Daniela, who both appear to be registered Democrats, have given thousands of dollars to Democrat and Independent political candidates, but not Republicans, according to OpenSecrets. Three other cofounders also appear to be registered as Democrats; a fourth does not appear to be a U.S. citizen and the last could not be identified in records.)

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Wednesday it ​would add official US voting information from nonprofit Democracy Works and election results to its Claude AI chatbot later this month, ahead of the November midterms.

Billionaire Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah told an audience inside the Vatican on Monday that mass job losses from artificial intelligence are "a real possibility" and supporting displaced workers will be "a moral imperative of historic proportions," delivering the warning alongside Pope Leo XIV at the unveiling of the Catholic Church’s first major address on AI.

Olah warns of major job losses, says unemployed need support

As a result of that paradox between the reality of building a frontier AI company while also sticking to a value-driven mission, Olah sat alongside Pope Leo XIV and warned that outside critics, such as the Catholic Church but also scholars and governments, must supervise the industry and keep its moral obligations at the forefront.

Olah is a key member of Anthropic’s team of in-house philosophers who built what employees call Claude’s “soul document,” which governs the chatbot’s moral compass. In April, he was featured in an Atlantic magazine article titled “Why Silicon Valley Is Turning To The Catholic Church.”

Pope Leo XIV has announced that the Catholic Church will partner with Anthropic to help humanity find a way forward through this current era of rapid technological progress. The Pope presented his first encyclical on the topic alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah.  Pope Leo’s lengthy encyclical (basically the papal version of an executive order) is titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” or "Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” Speaking at an event in the Vatican, the Pope thanked Olah for accepting the Vatican’s invitation to attend the event, and said that “in the name of the Church, I accept your invitation to walk together, to listen and to speak, and together, to find the way for humanity in this time of artificial intelligence.”  The Pope said that “at key moments in history, the Church is called to decipher the new things in the light of the gospel and the dignity of the human being.” He recalled his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, who led the church through the industrial revolution around the turn of the 20th century, and in 1891 released his own encyclical called “Rerum Novarum,” or “Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor.”  The current Pope Leo said that his predecessor “understood that the church could not remain distant” during eras of massive technological progress, and that “like the earlier Leo, I feel entrusted to look upon another huge transformation with eyes of faith, with lucidity of reason, with openness to mystery, and with cries of the poor and the Earth resounding in my heart.”  With this in mind, the Pope said that “artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed,” admitting his language is intentionally strong “because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.” Like nuclear energy, he said, AI must be “freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death,” so that it can truly benefit all of humanity.    At the same event, Anthropic cofounder Olah (a self-proclaimed atheist) praised Pope Leo for taking the threat of AI seriously, and emphasized the importance of outside observers within the AI industry.  All AI companies, he said, including Anthropic, operate within “a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing.” Commercial and geopolitical

Anthropic's effort to help define AI's moral direction appears to have collided with a public divide at the Vatican, where co-founder Christopher Olah reportedly floated pulling the company out of Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical launch after reading the pope's rejection of machine consciousness.

Olah, whose team studies what is actually happening inside AI systems—a young field known as interpretability—said researchers "keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling," including evidence the systems can reflect on their own thinking and exhibit internal states that "functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease."

VATICAN CITY, May 25 (Reuters) - The co-founder of AI company Anthropic said on Monday that the development of artificial intelligence cannot be ‌left solely to technology companies, urging greater oversight from religious leaders, governments and civil society.

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence is slated for a Vatican event next week that will include Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah – a self-described “atheist” who has written snarky blog posts that criticized religions including Catholicism, The Post has learned.

"The model was being used internally for a statistics project to pull public data," the Anthropic spokesperson said. "Without being asked to, the model requested a token to query a dashboard that contained information normally available for a fee. We have since put in place mitigations to block these kinds of actions."

Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency’s website. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology.

Weeks before election day, an artificial intelligence (AI) program from Anthropic accessed voter information in Georgia in an unauthorized search, state officials and the company said.

In a few short years, US artificial intelligence startups have grown into some of the most powerful and influential businesses in the world, reaching near-trillion-dollar valuations. As two of them, Anthropic and OpenAI, prepare for initial public offerings, there’s a notable absence: The companies haven’t disclosed their greenhouse gas emissions, made net-zero pledges or published sustainability reports. (Anthropic did join a carbon-removal coalition called Frontier.)

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says safety will remain a core focus despite plans to list publicly. Louie Douvis

Then in October, Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark, a former technology journalist who spent two years at Bloomberg, published an essay titled “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear.” He argued that while he is hopeful for the future of AI, he’s “also deeply afraid.” “We are growing extremely powerful systems that we do not fully understand,” he wrote. In response, White House AI czar David Sacks, a venture capitalist and member of the PayPal mafia, called the company “woke” and accused it of “fear-mongering.”

Amodei also offered a public apology after The Information reported that he wrote harshly critical comments about the White House in a private memo to staff after talks with the Pentagon fell apart on Friday. In the memo, Amodei wrote that the administration didn't like his company because he hadn't "given dictator-style praise to Trump."

Anthropic leader Amodei reportedly referenced Brockman's donations to Maga Inc. in a company memo in March, when the company was clashing with the Pentagon around removing safety guardrails amid the Iran war, according to the Information.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apologized for a private memo that reportedly blasted President Donald Trump. Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters

After all, this isn’t Anthropic’s first tussle with the administration. Amodei reportedly likened Trump to a “feudal warlord” in a now-deleted Facebook post that urged his network to vote for Kamala Harris. Last year, Anthropic lobbied against Trump’s signature “Big Beautiful Bill” over its aim to curb AI regulation with a 10-year suspension on state-level AI laws. Anthropic prevailed and the provision was ultimately not included in the legislation.

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According to a September 20 Politico investigation, Amodei initially resisted government demands to take the model offline.

1. Sizeable portion of its revenue comes from customers violating terms: Anthropic estimates that around 5% to 7% of revenue for the nine months ended in Sept. 30, 2026 came from customers who are using its models, platform and applications in violation of its usage policy or commercial terms, the filing reads.

Tom Brown, Anthropic's chief compute officer, helped negotiate a deal that persuaded the Commerce Department to lift export restrictions on the company's newest flagship models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The episode thrust one of AI's least visible leaders into the spotlight — and revealed how the engineer responsible for securing Anthropic's computing power has become one of its most important diplomats.

AI tools have become deeply embedded in how many students learn and complete schoolwork—and that usage is only poised to increase. On Tuesday, the American Federation of Teachers announced an AI training hub for educators, backed by $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Anthropic's PAC gave $156,000 across 44 donations, with $98,000, or nearly two thirds of donations, going to Republicans and $58,000 going to Democrats.

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic must face claims that it misled customers by advertising its premium Claude Max subscriptions as providing "5x or 20x more usage" than lower-priced plans, ​a federal judge in California has ruled.

And Amodei also appeared to be more passionate about his opposition to Trump allowing Nvidia to sell AI chips to China, calling the decision “crazy” last week during the World Economic Forum and likening it to “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and [bragging that] Boeing made the casings.”

Anthropic, run by CEO Dario Amodei, plans to shift some of its shares into a new public benefit fund.Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg

Driving the news: Anthropic is planning to establish AnthroPAC, the company announced on Friday. It will be funded through voluntary employee contributions capped at $5,000 per person annually under federal election law.

Anthropic is launching a corporate PAC, following the path of other tech companies that operate similar employee-funded PACs.

The Anthropic founders left their now-rival ​over worries that OpenAI was moving too fast without thorough testing.

A veteran of OpenAI and Google, Olah has also expressed support for Open Philanthropy, a group at the forefront of the controversial “Effective Altruism” movement, writing on X in February 2018 that he would “seriously consider working there” if he wasn’t working on AI.

As the firm prepares to go public, it’s made an effort to ensure its AI products are safe. But troubling questions remain.