
Dario Amodei defends Anthropic safety record in lengthy reply to Encode critic
Answering Nathan Calvin's nine-point critique, the Anthropic CEO listed nine commercially costly safety calls and conceded missteps on a draft AI bill.
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Answering Nathan Calvin's nine-point critique, the Anthropic CEO listed nine commercially costly safety calls and conceded missteps on a draft AI bill.

The fund can grow by another 2% for every 50% jump in Anthropic's valuation, with governance details still to come.

Dario Amodei and six co-founders want super-voting shares to keep control after Anthropic goes public at a valuation approaching $1.5 trillion.

A 37-country Gallup study commissioned by Microsoft shows Americans lead the world in AI anxiety even as adoption climbs.

Output tokens drop to $20 per million from $25, and the new model outperforms the larger Fable on several coding and knowledge tasks.

The AI company is running physical biology experiments in-house, months after buying stealth biotech Coefficient Bio.

Faculty staff will red-team Claude from inside Anthropic under a $1B, five-year deal — the first concrete step in Amodei's slowdown plan.

The Anthropic CEO wants independent safety evaluators and cross-lab coordination. Jensen Huang isn't buying it.

Amodei wants coordinated guardrails, Zuckerberg wants the market to sort it out, and Cohere's CEO calls the whole thing a cartel.

A 42,151-person global poll finds 76% in Australia and South Korea and 71% in the US bracing for AI-driven job losses over 20 years.

A Treasury-drafted FINRA-style body for frontier AI is in limbo after tech executives pushed back, and no Congressional bill has the votes to pass.

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want third-party researchers inside their labs. Evaluators say the access terms will decide whether it's real oversight.

Beijing officials and Chinese AI researchers dismiss Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal as a ploy to lock in a US lead.

Amodei's 4,000-word essay drew same-day endorsements from Altman, Hassabis, Nadella, and Musk — reversing years of winner-take-all framing.

OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.

Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'

Nvidia's CEO handed the mic to the president, who called AI development fears a 'hoax' and said robots won't take over.

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella all backed pacing AI development this weekend. The White House says no antitrust waiver is coming.

Beijing's official press frames Anthropic's safety advocacy as a US strategy to hobble Chinese AI development.

Chip suppliers and AI infrastructure names across Asia sold off after frontier lab chiefs publicly urged the industry to slow down.

A departing Anthropic researcher, an alignment lead's viral post, and a >10% extinction estimate collide with an imminent IPO.

The Anthropic CEO says the pace of frontier model releases is outrunning the industry's ability to control misuse.

Dario Amodei wants embedded third-party evaluators, coordinated safety standards across US labs, and narrow deals with China.

Publishers accuse the AI lab of pirating millions of books containing lyrics and sheet music, building on the $1.5B Bartz precedent.
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