#anthropic

#anthropic

The data collected is meant to help improve the models, making them safer and more intelligent, the company said in the post. Also: Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out - how to get early access While this change does mark as a sharp pivot from the company's typical approach, users will still have the option to keep their chats out of training.

Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise up to $10 billion in a new round of financing. This would significantly strengthen the AI startup's position in the market and boost its valuation. This is according to Bloomberg. According to insiders, the company initially aimed for $5 billion. However, strong demand from investors led to a doubling of the targeted capital. Negotiations are still ongoing. The final size of the round may still change.

Anthropic has told investors it is displeased by the prevalence of a popular kind of investment vehicle being marketed to those eager to get in on the AI boom. In its latest funding round, the AI startup is raising around $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation. It told one of its largest investors, Menlo Ventures, that the venture capital firm must use its own capital and not resort to a special purpose vehicle, or SPV, as it did in a previous funding round.

Anthropic has updated the usage policy for its Claude AI chatbot to include a ban on developing biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons, amidst safety concerns.

Amodei stated, "It's like a mixture of true belief in the mission and belief in the upside of the equity. I think Anthropic has developed a reputation for doing what it says it will do."

"I've talked to plenty of people who got these offers at Anthropic and who just turned them down. Who wouldn't even talk to Mark Zuckerberg."

"People here are so mission-oriented," Benjamin Mann said. "They get these offers and then they say, 'Well, of course I'm not going to leave because my best case scenario at Meta is that we make money, and my best case at Anthropic is we affect the future of humanity.'"

Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson allege that Anthropic downloaded up to seven million copyrighted works unlawfully, building a multibillion-dollar business on stolen books.

Anthropic now permits job applicants to utilize AI for enhancing their submissions, aiming to balance AI proficiency with authentic human skill evaluation. Candidates can collaborate with AI to refine résumés, cover letters, and interview preparations.

"This is one of the first critical RCEs in Anthropic's MCP ecosystem, exposing a new class of browser-based attacks against AI developer tools," Oligo Security's Avi Lumelsky said in a report published last week.

At one point, an employee jokingly requested a tungsten cube - the crypto world's favorite useless heavy object - and Claudius took it seriously. Soon, the fridge was stocked with cubes of metal, and the AI had launched a "specialty metals" section.

"While the fears of a total job apocalypse haven't yet been realized, data suggests tech companies are increasingly prioritizing AI, impacting hiring for recent graduates."

Anthropic's decision to leave the SQL injection vulnerability unpatched perpetuates a significant security threat to AI agents that depend on their SQLite Model Context Protocol.