anthropic
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- Altman says OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access
Sam Altman said OpenAI will adopt the first step of Dario Amodei's plan to slow frontier AI development: independent evaluators working inside the company with employee-like access.
- Anthropic adopted internal oversight and asked the industry to slow down
Anthropic committed to an embedded evaluator. Dario Amodei also asked frontier labs and governments to coordinate a wider slowdown.
- Trail of Bits’ coop gives coding agents their own working environment
coop runs Claude Code and Codex in disposable virtual machines, with project sync and controls for connecting files, credentials and local models.
- How developers organise and maintain agent skills
An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.
- OpenAI Wants Your Trust, Your Calendar and Your Card
OpenAI paused frontier training and wound down its side projects. The product it is refocusing on asks for your calendar, your finances and your card.
- Anthropic says it had one layer of defence where it needed several
Anthropic's post-incident write-up admits it relied on a single layer of defence where it needed several. The independent METR review is still to come.
- The robot arm will obey the limits you remembered to write down
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets agents drive lab instruments over MCP, and enforces safety limits below the agent. The limits it enforces are the ones the device's owner thought to declare.
- One Foot on the Brake, One on the Gas
OpenAI paused two weeks of its own training over cyber risk, then shipped a browser agent that signs into your accounts. And its own documentation can't agree on whether that agent can log in at all.
- The Best Model Nobody Uses
The FT reports Anthropic's most capable model is struggling for users while cheaper tools take the bulk of real work. The pattern repeats across every lab — and it says something about what to actually invest in.
- SoN 2.30: Which of your AI's rules are still doing a job?
Last week's advice and Anthropic's both hold. The test is one question you can ask about any rule you've written.
- The Share Button Is a Publish Button
600 Claude conversations turned up in Google because a shared page shipped without a noindex tag. Nobody got hacked. The systems worked exactly as designed — that's the problem.
- "AI Found a Security Bug" Is the Wrong Headline
Claude found a real improved attack on HAWK and a new technique against reduced-round AES-128. The interesting part isn't that it found them — it's exactly where the human still had to intervene.
- Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
Anthropic made its Economic Index queryable in plain language inside Claude. The anxious question about your own field is now a research task you can actually run — with the honesty to read its limits.
- Fable: here in an instant, then gone
Fable: here in an instant, then gone Last week I wrote about Fable 5 — Anthropic’s newest model — and the catch: it was only on the normal…
- Anthropic Didn't Block Abuse. They Blocked Competition.
The OpenClaw subscription ban isn't about fair use — it's Anthropic asserting platform control while shipping their own replacement.
- Claude Code Channels: When Your Agent Gets a Phone Number
Anthropic's new messaging integration isn't about convenience — it's about changing how you think about what an AI agent is.
- MCP Just Changed Hands. Watch What Happens Next.
Anthropic donating MCP to the Linux Foundation is good governance — and a signal that the easy days of fast iteration are probably over.
- The Safety Company Keeps Leaking
Anthropic's recurring security incidents reveal a tension worth naming: operational security is hard, even for companies whose brand is built on being careful.
- Your AI Provider's Ethics Are Now a Business Risk
Anthropic refused Pentagon weapons contracts and got sanctioned. A court blocked it. Here's what that means if you build on Claude.
- Anthropic Built MCP, Got Everyone to Use It, Then Gave It Away
MCP just moved from Anthropic's project to shared industry infrastructure — and that changes the risk calculation for anyone building on it.
- Anthropic's Off-Peak Promotion Tells You Where AI Pricing Is Headed
Anthropic doubled Claude's usage limits during off-peak hours. They called it a thank-you. It's a demand curve signal.
- Anthropic Just Made Long Context a Commodity
1M token context windows at flat pricing. No surcharge. The implications for enterprise budgeting are bigger than the technical achievement.
- Anthropic's $100M Partner Network Is the Enterprise Playbook OpenAI Should Have Run
Certifications, partner funding, and a 5x team expansion. Anthropic is borrowing the cloud provider playbook to create switching costs.
- Agents Reviewing Agent-Generated Code Is Either Brilliant or a House of Cards
Anthropic launched Claude Code Review — AI agents that check AI-generated pull requests. The numbers are impressive. The implications are worth thinking about.
- Microsoft Spent $13B on OpenAI, Then Built Cowork on Claude
Microsoft's flagship M365 agent feature runs on Anthropic's model. If they're going multi-model, so should you.
- OpenAI Took the Pentagon Deal. What's Your Exit Plan?
Anthropic refused. OpenAI said yes within hours. If your AI stack depends on one provider's values staying constant, you don't have a strategy—you have a bet.
- Claude 3.5 Haiku, 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o: The Deprecation Wave Is Here
Three major models entering end-of-life in the same window. If you hardcoded model IDs, migration planning just became urgent.
- Claude in Excel Is the Quiet Revolution
Anthropic isn't building a better chatbot. They're embedding AI where work actually happens.
- 💾 The Download #007: Data vis in Claude, new service launch, what AI is saying about you and more.
#007 Hello Reader, it's good to see you. The holidays are fast approaching, and hopefully you will be able to plan some down time and a reset. When I…
- 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
#003 Dear Reader, Greetings again from an incredibly muggy Valencia. Yesterday and today I'm attending the VDS 2024 Tech Conference at the City of…