Today, Anthropic’s Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company’s mobile app. This means developers can now kick off Claude Code workflows directly from the Claude.ai web app, with Claude Code then running these coding tasks on Anthropic-managed instances. This new capability is launching in what the company calls a …
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A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI start-up’s “anti-China statements” as a key reason for his departure. Yao Shunyu, according to a post on his website on Monday, left Anthropic after less than a year to join Google DeepMind, partly because of his “strong” opposition to the start-up’s characterisation …
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns that class action lawyers will create a deal behind closed doors that they will force “down the throats of …
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At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic’s rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by …
Read More »Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced “down the throat of authors.” Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said it was “nowhere close to …
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Israel is not a leader in the crowded field of artificial intelligence model development, but Clal Insurance has found a way to gain exposure to one of its rising stars. Calcalist has learned that Clal took part in Anthropic’s massive $13 billion fundraising round announced last week, securing a foothold in one of the most sought-after private deals in the …
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Anthropic closed a $13 billion Series F round that drew some of the biggest names in Wall Street finance. ICONIQ Capital, Fidelity, and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal, but the list of backers goes far deeper. Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, Coatue, Goldman Sachs (GS), Jane Street, T. Rowe Price (TROW), Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and BlackRock-linked (BLK) funds all joined …
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The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent attack success rate when browser use operated without safety mitigations. One example involved a malicious email that instructed Claude to delete a user’s emails for “mailbox hygiene” purposes. Without safeguards, Claude followed these instructions and deleted the user’s emails without confirmation. Anthropic says it has …
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On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past chats to read and summarize them for the user, then asks if they’d like to move on and keep working on the same …
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On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom …
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