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Anthropic, the company behind Claude, detailed a governance structure that will give its seven founders 50.1% of the voting power if its proposed Nasdaq listing moves forward. The company filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO and plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT, though the number of shares and price range have not yet been set. -
Usually an AI waits for you to write to it. Anthropic's new agent works the other way around: it comes to you with a summary of what's going on and calls you only when it can't do without you. -
A leaked Anthropic draft would establish a federal process for judging when an AI model is dangerous enough to be pulled from release, with independent evaluators registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce playing a central role. -
On September 9, 2026, BBC Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire asked Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called the godfather of AI, about a prediction by an Anthropic researcher: a more than 10% chance that AI kills all humans within a decade. Then she checked that she had heard his answer right: "You just said that 10% doesn't seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans." Hinton replied simply: "Yes." All the presenter could say was "Wow… oh my God." -
OpenAI and Anthropic are privately gaming out how a catastrophic AI-related event could trigger public and political backlash, Axios reports. One scenario under discussion is a large-scale cyberattack that could disrupt financial services, internet access, power, or water, as companies consider how policymakers might respond after a major incident. -
Lead maintainers of open-source projects can apply for free scanning, but Anthropic reviews each project on a case-by-case basis. To apply, the lead maintainer needs to file a request in the service's GitHub repository. Anthropic considers projects that are significant to infrastructure and user security. -
Not long ago, a project in which chatbots were literally "tortured" was being discussed online. Now one of the biggest AI companies has a separate rule on the matter. -
Brandon Thomas says ArtCraft is trying to match Adobe's workflow, not just its feature list: the project aims to recreate the look, keyboard shortcuts, and behavior of apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator without copying Adobe's source code. The free, open-source suite uses Claude Opus 5.5 and is meant as an alternative to Adobe software. -
Anthropic says Claude Haiku 5.5 is now its fastest model in standard mode, with only Opus in Fast Mode moving quicker. The company also says the small model can run about 75% cheaper on average than Haiku 4.5, although the benchmark results released alongside it are still Anthropic's own numbers. -
Complaints from Hong Kong Claude users on October 1 suggest Anthropic has begun suspending accounts after access through VPNs, leaving some people scrambling to save chat histories and other data. Posts on X, Reddit, and Threads indicate that several users had been using the service for months before their accounts were cut off. -
Anthropic confirmed an elevated number of errors affecting Claude and several of its services as users around the world reported disruptions. The company said parts of its infrastructure were affected. -
The Wall Street Journal says some early Anthropic employees are considering remote land in the United States as a possible refuge if an AI apocalypse ever occurs. Employees have reportedly discussed where they might shelter in that scenario, and some still talk through end-of-the-world ideas in private chats. -
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 — 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper to run, with no price increase
Anthropic has released a second model from its new lineup just a week after the first — and this one unexpectedly stood out in a classic Pokémon game. -
Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 family has launched with Opus 5.5, which the company says is its strongest Opus release yet and faster and cheaper than Opus 5 on most work.
According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. The company also says prices for a million input tokens and a million output tokens are now $4 and $20, while cache reads cost $0.20 per million tokens, which Anthropic says is 60% less than Opus 5. -
The launch of GPT-6 Astra noticeably shifted the balance of power in the AI market, and OpenAI's main competitor did not pretend that nothing had happened. -
Anthropic is trying to see whether Claude can do more than generate text: the company has set up a biology lab where the model is being tested on robots in supervised experiments. The move was reported on September 18, 2026, and Anthropic says the work is still at a very early stage. -
In September 2026, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning of the danger he sees in AI labs' pursuit of systems smarter than humans. He accused developers of "gambling with our lives" by making models more capable without knowing whether they can keep them under control. Safety specialists have voiced similar concerns: over the past few years, some have left OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, citing the rapid pace of development and insufficient attention to risks. We examine what concerns them, how much influence they had over management decisions, and how the companies have responded. -
Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, is in talks with Meta* about leasing computing capacity from its data centers. According to reports citing three sources familiar with the discussions, the deal could be worth up to $10 billion (around 780 billion rubles) over two years. Both companies declined to comment. -
Anthropic is taking its Claude AI assistant's browser extension out of testing. Now, all paying subscribers can try the feature that lets the bot work directly within the browser — navigating websites and filling out forms.
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