In Brief Posted: 1:40 PM PDT · May 10, 2026 Anthony Ha Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. …
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… Anthropic plans to use the new funds to “advance our safety and interpretability research, expand compute to meet growing demand for Claude, and scale the products and partnerships our customers rely on.” The round comes the same day that Anthropic released its new Claude Opus 4.8 model, which tout… …
… The new connectors and plug-ins are being made available to all paying Claude customers, the company said. …
… And I think the next step is that Claude understands what you work on, and just sets up some of these automations for you. Topics agents , AI , Anthropic , Cat Wu , Claude , claude code When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission . …
… An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch that Karpathy will start a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research. …
Loading the player… Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. …
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… In January, one of Anthropic’s lead programmers for Claude Code estimated that “close to 100%” of his team’s code was written by the tool – a frank admission that Claude Code was literally writing itself. …