SAN FRANCISCO: Anthropic said Friday it has suspended access to two powerful AI models to comply with a US national security order. Just three days after publicly launching Fable 5, the company said in a blog post that it received a government directive banning all foreign nationals, even ones who work at Anthropic, from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over national security concerns. &quot;The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,&quot; it said.

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Anthropic announces that it has suspended access to two powerful AI models to comply with a US national security order.

Anthropic cuts access to powerful AI models over government 'national security' order

NEW YORK: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control. The San Francisco-based company, which makes the Claude family of AI models, said in a report that a worldwide slowdown in cutting-edge AI development would &quot;likely be a good thing&quot; -- but warned that if only one company stopped, rivals would simply race ahead. &quot;We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,&quot; it said. Getting a real pause to work would mean multiple major AI companies in multiple countries -- most notably the US and China -- all agreeing to stop at the same time, under rules everyone could actually verify, Anthropic said. &quot;Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures,&quot; it said. The company has faced pushback from others in the industry -- and officials in the White House -- who say its focus on worst-case scenarios overstates the risks and amounts to a strategy for slowing rivals under the cover of safety concerns. Still, the White House has acknowledged the power of the company&#39;s Mythos model -- which has not been made available to the general public due to its cybersecurity capabilities and is currently deployed only to a small number of vetted organizations. The proposal would face an uphill battle in Washington and Silicon Valley, where US officials and tech executives have repeatedly argued that any slowdown in AI development risks handing China a decisive strategic edge in what many see as the defining technology race of the century. US President Donald Trump, however, said he discussed the possibility of cooperating with China on AI safety issues during his recent visit to Beijing. Trump also signed an executive order this week that allows the government 30 days to conduct a preliminary review of the most powerful US AI models before their release. &#39;Human role narrowing&#39;Anthropic compared the problem to nuclear arms control treaties -- but said it would be even harder to get a handle on, since AI training is far easier to hide than a missile silo, and the temptation to quietly keep going would be enormous. The company said it plans to bring together government officials, scientists, advocacy groups and competing AI firms in coming months to figure out how such a system could work. The call for coordination comes alongside internal data showing that AI is already dramatically speeding up the development of AI itself, Anthropic said. That acceleration creates a feedback loop that Anthropic warned could eventually lead to what researchers call &quot;recursive self-improvement.&quot; That&#39;s the idea of an AI system that becomes capable of essentially teaching itself to get smarter, without much human help. &quot;We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable,&quot; the report said, while adding that it could arrive sooner than most governments and institutions are ready for. &quot;The evidence suggests that the human role is narrowing at each step in the AI development process,&quot; the company said.

AI company Anthropic calls for a globally coordinated pause on developing the most advanced AI systems, warning that rapid progress could outpace safety research and increase risks of AI operating beyond human control.

Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

SAN FRANCISCO: AI giant Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, announced Monday that it had filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO), as Silicon Valley AI companies look to raise the enormous sums needed to fuel the sector&#39;s rapid expansion. A confidential filing lets a company submit its IPO paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for review without making its financials and business details public until much later in the process. &quot;This gives us the option to go public after the Securities and Exchange Commission completes its review,&quot; the company said in a statement. &quot;The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors.&quot; &quot;The number of shares to be offered and the price have not yet been set,&quot; the company added. The filing came just days after the company said it raised $65 billion in a new funding round that valued the OpenAI rival at $965 billion, putting it on the cusp of a trillion-dollar valuation. The latest fundraising round confirmed Anthropic&#39;s place as one of the most significant players in AI, having built its reputation by focusing on delivering generative AI to enterprise clients. Anthropic&#39;s valuation puts it ahead of OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March and is also aiming to go public, with a filing expected imminently. Asked by CNBC about his own company&#39;s IPO efforts, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that &quot;going public is a financing event. I don&#39;t think that&#39;s one that we&#39;re focused on.&quot; &quot;I assume we&#39;ll do it (at some point),&quot; Altman added. Founded in 2021 by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei and other former executives at OpenAI, Anthropic has positioned itself as a safety-focused alternative in the AI race. Musk dealClaude Code, its coding assistant for developers, has become one of its most popular products, helping push its projected annual revenue to $47 billion. Anthropic&#39;s commercial success has been accompanied by difficulties meeting demand for computing power, amid a shortage of chips and servers. In recent months, the company has faced criticism from users complaining that they were exhausting their usage quotas too quickly and having to pay high prices to continue. In response, Anthropic has struck deals to secure several gigawatts of computing capacity from Amazon, Google and Broadcom. Last month, the company signed a surprise agreement with tech billionaire Elon Musk. Musk, who is embroiled in a legal battle against the founders of OpenAI, is leasing access to his Colossus data centers to Anthropic for $1.25 billion per month. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, the facility had been underutilized by his xAI lab, the creator of the Grok chatbot. Anthropic and OpenAI&#39;s IPOs would likely follow Elon Musk&#39;s SpaceX to Wall Street. SpaceX, which absorbed Musk&#39;s AI company xAI, could see shares begin trading as early as June 12. The company is targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion in what would be the largest IPO in history. &quot;We believe this represents an opening of the floodgates for the IPO market, which has been relatively dormant for a few years,&quot; said Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities. Anthropic&#39;s IPO filing comes as it navigates a legal dispute with the Pentagon, which designated the company a supply chain risk after it refused to grant the military unfettered access to its AI models. Anthropic called the Defense Department&#39;s move unconstitutional retaliation.

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AI giant Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, files for an initial public offering (IPO), as Silicon Valley AI companies look to raise the enormous sums needed to fuel the sector's rapid expansion.

AI giant Anthropic confidentially files for IPO

SAN FRANCISCO: Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round that values the Claude maker at $965 billion, more than its archrival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The latest fundraising round confirms Anthropic&#39;s place as one of the most significant players in AI, with the startup led by Dario Amodei having drawn fans for its coding powers and state-of-the-art models. Anthropic&#39;s rise came by doubling down on delivering generative AI to enterprise clients rather than general users, the path initially chosen by archrival OpenAI. Founded by former OpenAI employees, including CEO Amodei, Anthropic has a special focus on AI safety even as it rushes out new products in order to remain in the AI race. &quot;This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,&quot; said Krishna Rao, Anthropic&#39;s chief financial officer. Anthropic&#39;s near-trillion-dollar valuation puts it ahead of OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March. Both companies could go public as early as this year. Ahead of them, Elon Musk&#39;s SpaceX, which absorbed his AI company, xAI, in February, could see shares begin trading as early as June 12, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion in what would be the largest IPO in history. Anthropic&#39;s round was led by major Silicon Valley venture capitalists Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. It also included $15 billion in previously committed investments from cloud giants, including $5 billion from Amazon. Semiconductor firms Micron, Samsung and SK hynix -- whose products are crucial to the technology -- also participated as strategic infrastructure partners. The company said Claude is now the first frontier AI model available across all three of the world&#39;s largest cloud platforms -- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The funding comes as Anthropic navigates a high-profile legal dispute with the Pentagon, having sued the Defense Department after it designated the company a supply chain risk -- a move Anthropic called unconstitutional retaliation for its refusal to grant the military unfettered access to its AI models. Mythos is Anthropic&#39;s powerful, next-generation AI model with unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities. This has led Anthropic to restrict its access to security partners rather than releasing it to the public.&emsp;

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it raised $65 billion in a new funding round that values the Claude maker at $965 billion, more than its archrival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT

AI giant Anthropic reaches near-trillion dollar valuation

WASHINGTON: Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code, due to &quot;human error,&quot; the company said Tuesday. An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to the developer platform GitHub. &quot;Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal source code. No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,&quot; an Anthropic spokesperson said. &quot;This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.&quot; A post on X sharing a link to the leaked code had more than 29 million views early on Wednesday. The exposed code related to the tool&#39;s internal architecture but does not contain confidential data from Claude, the underlying AI model by Anthropic. Claude Code&#39;s source code was partially known, as the tool had been reverse-engineered by independent developers. An earlier version of the assistant had its source code exposed in Feb&nbsp;2025.

The exposed code related to the tool's internal architecture but does not contain confidential data from Claude, the underlying AI model by Anthropic.

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