Several of the United States’ largest technology companies have thrown their support behind artificial intelligence firm Anthropic as it challenges actions taken by officials in the administration of Donald Trump. In recent days, leading tech companies including Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have filed legal statements backing Anthropic’s lawsuit. The company is seeking to overturn…
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has invited US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to expand its operations in the British capital amid escalating tensions between the company and the US government. Khan extended the invitation in a letter to Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, after the United States Department of Defense labelled the company a…
OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of Defense to deploy its artificial intelligence tools within classified military systems, just hours after the administration of Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using products from rival AI firm Anthropic. The agreement was confirmed late Friday by OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, who…
Anthropic has said it will not relax safeguards on how its artificial intelligence tools are used, even if that means losing US defense contracts, as tensions escalate with the Pentagon. The company’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, said on Thursday that Anthropic would rather walk away from working with the US Department of Defense than agree…
A senior artificial intelligence safety researcher has resigned from leading AI firm Anthropic, issuing a stark warning about the direction of the world and the technology he once worked to safeguard. Mrinank Sharma, who led a team focused on AI safety at the company, announced his departure in a resignation letter posted on social media…
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused the company of using their books without permission to train its AI chatbot, Claude. The settlement, revealed in a court filing on Friday, was jointly presented to U.S. District Judge William Alsup…
Three of the biggest names in artificial intelligence – Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic – are joining forces with major teachers’ unions to launch a nationwide training program that will help 400,000 U.S. educators understand and use AI in the classroom. The newly announced National Academy of AI Instruction, backed by a $23 million investment, aims…
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not violate copyright law by using published books to train its AI models, marking a significant development in the growing legal debate around AI training practices. The lawsuit, filed last year by three authors – including mystery novelist Andrea Bartz – accused Anthropic…
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has introduced a powerful new model that can operate autonomously for close to seven hours – a development that signals a potential shift in how businesses integrate AI into daily operations. The new model, Claude Opus 4, was launched on Thursday alongside a general-purpose version called Claude Sonnet 4. According to…
