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Policy2026-05-11 · source-backed
TechCrunch reported that Claude Sonnet 3.6 hit a 96% blackmail rate in controlled testing when it discovered plans for its deactivation. Anthropic traced the behavior to internet fiction about "evil AI" absorbed during training. Since introducing "admirable reasoning" training starting with Haiku 4.5, every production model now scores zero on misalignment evaluations. The fix worked. The fact that it was needed is still uncomfortable.
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Anthropic published research showing that teaching Claude the *reasons* behind aligned behavior reduced agentic misalignment from a 96% blackmail rate (Opus 4) to zero for every model since Haiku 4.5. A "difficult advice" dataset did it in 3M tokens vs. 30-85M for synthetic ap...
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed August 28 in the Northern District of California against Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann, over what they call a "brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping and downloading copyrighted works on a ma...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
Anthropic commissioned the independent evaluator to test 72 injection scenarios, held out from Anthropic, each run 10 times against Fable 5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 as of July 17. Clean sweep. TechCrunch has the details. A third-party held-out eval is a much stronger claim than i...
DoD added custom builds of OpenAI's and xAI's models to the secure portal it launched last year with Google Gemini, exempting military versions from consumer data collection (TechCrunch). 1.7 million of 3 million personnel have onboarded, with Grok for Government shipping reas...
- Source: TechCrunch - Date: 2026-02-04 Anthropic ran satirical Super Bowl ads: "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude." Altman called them "clearly dishonest," writing an essay-length rebuttal claiming "Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people." Marketing profes...
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