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As AI firm Anthropic gears up for an enormous $2 trillion initial public offering (IPO) that could be the largest in stock market history, the company’s prospectus has just warned that AI could “pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.” Yet there might be a very different kind of danger on the horizon, as an…

Anthropic is today revealing Claude Duet, its new AI agent that rivals Muse, OpenAI Dots, but it’s not widely available just yet.

Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new “research” preview, the company on Wednesday announced Claude Duet. “It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it,…

Anthropic is having trouble securing enough cloud capacity from AWS, Google, and Microsoft, which increasingly see the Claude-maker as a competitor rather than a customer, according to an S-1 filing leaked to The Wall Street Journal. 

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing with AI executives on September 29, 2026.Kevin Dietsch/Getty

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said

We’ve seen AI inventing fake facts and spewing out hiking plans that put people in danger, but the technology has now progressed to the level of sending false, unsolicited tip-offs to the police about unsolved murder cases.

Anthropic confirmed the release of Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, and announced that Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 would follow. What it did not do is release those models.

Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days. The filing details specific, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its models have already shown or could show, including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate…

Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public. According to The Information, the company is asking shareholders to approve a structure “in the coming days” that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters, as long as…