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Announced July 9. The former Fed Chair and 2022 Nobel laureate joins the independent body that can appoint members to Anthropic's board and advises leadership on decisions involving AI risk and societal impact, alongside Neil Buddy Shah (Chair), Richard Fontaine, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. Trustees receive no equity or profit participation beyond service fees. Anthropic frames the role as informing its economic research. Read it against the IPO trajectory and TechCrunch's argument that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX combined will exceed 25 years of US venture-backed exits. You hire a central banker when you're about to become systemically relevant.
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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...
CDAO Cameron Stanley confirmed the DoD has begun engineering work on internally developed LLMs and expects them operational "very soon," with xAI and OpenAI as interim alternatives. Defense Secretary Hegseth's supply-chain-risk designation against Anthropic remains in effect....
- 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...
The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
TechCrunch's piece is backed by hiring data showing that jump by end of Q2 2026, with the largest consulting firms saying they need to 10x FDE headcount into teams of 20-100. Christian & Timbers estimates only about 2,000 engineers in the US combine sector knowledge, client gr...
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