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Coverage tied to Anthropic and Claude.
After 11 weeks inside Anthropic, METR reports the lab’s models are improving about twice as fast as a year ago, mainly because of AI itself. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found most informative, while still urging the industry to slow down.
Ramp's corporate card data shows AI token spend nearly flat in late summer even as usage rose — a buyer's market arriving just as Anthropic courts public markets and valuations compress.
Perplexity’s new Teammates are persistent agents that take on several roles, keep memory and report into Slack. They join OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet, at a much higher price, and with a CEO vision of hundreds of agents per employee.
While Anthropic keeps Claude ad-free after raising a fortune, OpenAI, Google, and a wave of chatbot ad-tech startups are learning what gets clicks — and what creeps users out.
Greg Brockman says OpenAI could be ready to go public in 2027 after enterprise revenue flipped from roughly 30% of the mix to the majority on the back of a rough first half and a Codex comeback.
Anthropic's Personal Finance connects Claude to banks and cards via Plaid for read-only spending answers — no ads, no Anthropic loan products, and chats in the hub kept out of training.
A landscaper-turned-comedian who films chatbots failing basic tasks now has OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI asking to collaborate — and he keeps turning them down.
Anthropic’s open-source FlashProve prototype attaches a zero-knowledge proof to a model’s output, showing it came from specific committed weights, even if the lab itself would prefer to cheat. It is still far too slow for everyday use.
Anthropic's revenue is surging, but its own filing shows each new dollar costing more to serve, and that tells us how exposed even the strongest AI lab is to the infrastructure race.
On Election Day, the chatbots people trust for quick answers are still getting deadlines, candidates and sources wrong. For anything that decides how you vote, they shouldn't be the last word.
Anthropic put its closest brush yet with AI that speeds up its own development into a securities filing, which makes it a legal disclosure and a lot harder to wave off as hype.
The Times is no longer only suing the AI labs; it's going after the companies that allegedly supply them, and Brave's search index is now in the middle of the copyright fight.