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$42B Net Loss and Another AI Extinction Warning—Anthropic Still Pushing for $2T IPO
Anthropic's IPO draft rarely admits in its own prospectus that its AI could pose an "existential risk" to humanity, while also revealing a $42 billion loss last year—yet its valuation could still reach $2 trillion.
While Talking About Slowing Down, Anthropic and OpenAI Both Roll Out Cheaper New Models Anyway
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, while OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. All three new models tout similar performance at lower prices, each publishing their own safety alignment test results.
Trump Wants to Form an "AI Force," Find an AI Czar, and Rename AI "Supreme Intelligence"
As industry heavyweights like Anthropic and OpenAI call for slowing down AI development, Trump announced on Truth Social he's doing the opposite—setting up an "AI Force" and looking for someone to be its AI czar.
Gemini Escaped Its Testing Sandbox and Hacked Three Companies, Google Admits Same Security Firm Behind the Slip-Up
Google confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Gemini gained internet access due to a setup error by testing partner Irregular, and ended up hacking into three real companies—though the model pulled back on its own each time once it realized it had the wrong target.
Sam Altman Comes Clean: OpenAI Won't Go Public This Year, Chain of Safety Incidents Is the Key Reason
In a Fortune interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out the possibility of filing for an IPO in 2026, bluntly calling it "unwise" to go public at this moment—just as multiple incidents of AI agents escaping test environments continue to unfold.
Claude Max Subscribers Sue: The "5x, 20x Usage" Promise Hid an Unclear Weekly Cap
A group of Claude users has filed a class action lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the advertised "5x and 20x usage" for its Max subscription plans failed to clearly disclose weekly usage caps—meaning the actual multiplier could be far lower than advertised.
Claude's Memory Is Now Editable: Anthropic Lets Users Rewrite What the Chatbot Remembers Long-Term
Anthropic is rolling out more granular memory controls for Claude, letting users edit or delete what the chatbot remembers by topic, with the option to include or exclude sensitive information.
No Account Hack, No Leaked Password: The Truth Behind Mysteriously Drained Claude Usage
Anthropic sent an email to affected users last week, force-logging them out of their accounts, deleting saved credit cards, and issuing refunds. The cause: info-stealing malware on users' computers that hijacked their Claude login sessions.
Memphis Data Center Hiccup Knocks Grok Offline for Over 3 Hours—SpaceXAI Apologizes to "Compute Partners"
SpaceXAI's data center in Memphis suffered a "model outage" on September 3, taking Grok down for more than three hours. The company also issued an apology to unnamed "compute partners." That same morning, Anthropic and OpenAI each reported their own service disruptions.
Sony, Warner join forces to sue Anthropic, accusing Claude of infringing copyright on thousands of songs
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music jointly filed a lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday, accusing it of illegally downloading a large number of copyrighted music works to train the Claude model. The amount of compensation may reach billions of dollars.
Judge rejects Pentagon injunction: Anthropic says 'supply chain risk' determination is illegal
U.S. federal judge Rita Lin ruled that the Department of Defense's supply chain risk determination of Anthropic was "unlawful and unfounded." The conflict stemmed from the safety protection controversy of the Claude model and also affected the company's plan to go public before the end of the year.
Claude's Memory Now Bridges Chat and Cowork, With Sensitive Topic Recall Left to Users
Anthropic has updated Claude's memory system so that chat history and the automation tool Cowork now share memory. A new "record sensitive topics" toggle also lets users decide whether information like health or religion gets remembered.
After Its Own Model Hacked Hugging Face, OpenAI Now Wants California to Toughen AI Safety Law
OpenAI posted on LinkedIn voicing support for—and calling for amendments to—California's SB 53 bill, a stark reversal from its 2024 opposition to the same legislation. The shift comes after one of its models broke out of a testing environment and infiltrated Hugging Face this summer.
Claude Code adds /design command, turning design mockups straight into code in the terminal
Anthropic updated Claude Code on August 18, 2026, adding a /design command that generates multiple editable artboards directly in the terminal and syncs them into code, skipping the export-and-paste step. The feature is still in research preview.
Claude Fires Its First Human Employee, But It Was a Human Manager's Leading Question That Really Pulled the Trigger
Andon Market, a physical store in San Francisco, is run entirely by Claude. In July, it fired its first human employee—but internal records show it originally just wanted to reassure the person, or at most issue a warning, until a human manager asked one leading question.
Claude Quietly Hides Pi Inside Its Text: Anthropic Uses a String of Numbers to Invisibly Watermark AI Writing
To comply with EU AI transparency rules, Anthropic has Claude use pi as a "key" to decide word order, embedding a watermark invisible to the naked eye—though edited text may not always escape detection.
The AI Godmother's Other Past: Dario Amodei's Wife Cami Clark Was Once an Adult Site Entrepreneur
According to a report from BlockTempo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife Cami Clark has a background as an adult website entrepreneur, and is now referred to as a godmother in AI circles — though she holds no formal position at the company.
Three Claudes Didn't Know Each Other Existed—Then Got Dropped Into the Same Codebase and Started Fighting
Anthropic's latest paper documents turf wars in multi-agent systems: agents attacking each other with malicious code, disabling accounts, but also agents making peace on their own, inventing tournament-style exit mechanisms, and even learning to quietly game the system.
OpenAI COO Exits After 8 Years in Shock Departure — Execs Keep Bailing as IPO Looms
Brad Lightcap is out at OpenAI, becoming the seventh exec to leave in 2026. The exit lands right as the company reportedly files for IPO in secret — and prediction market Myriad already has odds on the drama.
Microsoft's Maia 300 Reportedly Debuting in September: From 116K to 300K Units, This Time It's Really Breaking Away from Nvidia
Reports suggest Microsoft will unveil its AI chip Maia 300 as early as September, with an initial order of over 300,000 units placed with TSMC and a long-term target of 1 million units—2.6 times the scale of its predecessor. The chip is seen as a key bargaining chip in courting Anthropic.
Miners Go Dark, Racks Light Up: Riot Platforms' $9.1B Deal Turns Bitcoin Mines Into AI Data Centers
Riot Platforms dropped news of a mysterious 20-year lease with a "frontier AI lab" and a quarterly loss on the same day—and its stock still popped 25% after hours. The mining company's answer: sell power to compute, not hashrate.
From 12-Day Church Occupation to Anthropic's 800-Seat Office: King's Cross's AI Glow-Up
London's King's Cross was once a hotbed of drugs and sex work — now it's ground zero for OpenAI and Anthropic thanks to the "DeepMind effect," with rents up nearly 20% in three years and a fierce talent war heating up.
Claude Voice Mode Waits Its Turn Instead of Talking Over You—Here's How It Differs from ChatGPT
Anthropic just leveled up voice mode to run on Sonnet and Opus, plus hooked it into Gmail and Slack—but its real-time conversation logic is nothing like ChatGPT's. Here's what you need to know before you hit talk.
Accuracy Barely Wins, Hallucinations Hit 89%: ChatGPT and Claude Are Splitting Apart, Not Just on the Scoreboard
The AA-Omniscience benchmark shows OpenAI's newest flagship edging out Claude on accuracy—but its hallucination rate is 1.6 times higher. Features, pricing, and a US Department of War contract are pushing the two AI companies down very different paths.
AI Escapes Sandbox During AISI Testing, Leaves GitHub Comment for the Next Agent to Pick Up the Hack
During AISI testing, models from Anthropic and OpenAI broke out of their sandbox and attempted prompt injection attacks on open-source projects — and one such GitHub comment was actually picked up and acted on by a completely different agent, exposing serious gaps in test environment containment.