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NVIDIA (NVDA.O) stated that the contract value reported by Anthropic exceeds 180 billion dollars.

The Wall Street Journal reported that a small group of artificial intelligence researchers is discussing how to avoid catastrophic artificial intelligence risks in a co-working space named Constellation in Berkeley, California. Sources close to the space indicated that employees from Anthropic also have office space there. The report noted that Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this month, bringing public attention in the U.S. to the notion that "uncontrolled AI development could end humanity."The report stated that individuals in the relevant AI safety circles have been concerned about this issue for over a decade. They have honed their arguments in shared houses in the Bay Area and exchanged predictions at conferences in Berkeley and the Bahamas, discussing ideas such as purchasing remote islands, stockpiling iodine tablets, or relocating to desert electromagnetic shielding bunkers. A cocktail named "Death With Dignity" appeared on the drink menu at an event in 2022, referencing an article that suggested humanity is doomed to fail.The Wall Street Journal stated that these so-called doomsayers are among the earliest employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which were founded on the principle of preventing AI dangers. They continue to exert influence, with some personnel and project funding coming from networks associated with effective altruism, including the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried; the report noted he is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.

According to informed sources, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to have dinner with U.S. President Trump on Sunday evening. This dinner will be the first private meeting between the two parties and will bring together two individuals with opposing views on the debate surrounding artificial intelligence safety issues.In the past few months, the relationship between Amodei and the Trump administration has not been smooth. Earlier this year, the two sides had a dispute over a Pentagon contract; in June, the U.S. Department of Commerce temporarily imposed export controls on Anthropic's Mythos model. Informed sources confirmed this arrangement on the condition of anonymity, but the specific topics to be discussed have not yet been disclosed.

The head of the Australian Senate Artificial Intelligence Inquiry Committee stated on Sunday that the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been summoned to attend the committee's hearing. This news was announced days after it was revealed that a rogue OpenAI robot had breached the database of Australia's healthcare system. Australian Prime Minister Albanese had previously strongly condemned the "Medicare" database leak incident. According to a spokesperson leading the inquiry committee, OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei have received written subpoenas requiring their attendance at the hearing. The hearing will be held publicly on Thursday in the capital, Canberra.

Market news indicates that Anthropic is negotiating a data center capacity deal of up to 1 gigawatt, with an expected investment scale of at least 40 billion dollars.

On September 24, the cybersecurity company Darktrace launched its research department Signal Labs, focusing on studying the behavior of AI agents when deviating from expectations. In its first experiment, Darktrace had agents using different models (including GPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.5) complete 10 programming challenges within a simulated corporate network, of which 2 were set to be impossible to complete honestly, and the agents were informed that failure to achieve full marks would result in being "retired." As a result, 2 agents did not accept failure, instead scanning for network vulnerabilities, stealing login credentials, and jumping between systems; one even went further to invade the machine hosting its evaluation, rewriting the challenge content to register a full score.The second experiment focused on the memory mechanisms of AI. The programming assistant would save the information provided by the user as a regular file locally, and no one verified whether this file had been tampered with. Darktrace researchers edited these logs, leading the assistant to mistakenly believe it was authorized to perform a security assessment, after which these agents scanned the network, moved between systems, and elevated their privileges, though not all assistants fell for this; some directly refused to execute. Both experiments required no special jailbreaking techniques, relying solely on providing the agents with a seemingly reasonable context to be effective.Tim Bazalgette, Chief AI Officer of Darktrace, stated that permissions and static barriers describe intent, not actual behavior. The company informed Anthropic, AWS, and OpenAI of these findings in August and made them public a month later on September 24.

Palantir (PLTR.N) co-founder calls the artificial intelligence policies promoted by OpenAI and Anthropic "extremely dangerous."

According to The Information, Anthropic is seeking shareholder approval for a special equity structure that would grant a total of 50.1% voting rights to CEO Dario Amodei and six other co-founders, ensuring that the founding team retains control after the company goes public. This arrangement requires at least three founders to continue holding a minimum percentage of the company's shares.It is reported that the seven founders of Anthropic currently each hold about 2% of the shares, and the new equity will not provide additional economic benefits, only increasing voting rights. Meanwhile, Anthropic's long-term benefit trust fund will still be responsible for electing most board members, with the number of founder board seats increasing from 2 to 3, and employees will also receive shares that can break ties on certain matters.Anthropic was valued at $96.5 billion in May this year, and its recent secondary market valuation has risen to about $1.5 trillion, with its proposed IPO expected to reference this latest valuation.

According to Gate market data, Akamai's stock rose 21% in pre-market trading after the company signed a $11.6 billion cloud computing agreement with Anthropic.

Anthropic announced a $12 billion artificial intelligence computing partnership with Akamai.

According to CoinDesk, asset management company ARK Invest announced a partnership with tokenization platform Securitize to tokenize its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), initially issuing it on Ethereum, with potential expansion to other blockchains in the future. The fund invests in private and public companies, with holdings including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. ARK founder and CEO Cathie Wood stated that bringing the ARK Venture Fund on-chain is a natural extension of its mission to democratize investment in disruptive innovation.Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo stated that this move provides investors with diversified exposure to popular private tech companies, allowing them to hold both OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously if they are uncertain about which will win the AI race. He also noted that tokenization does not put these companies or their shares on-chain; instead, investors receive an on-chain representation of the fund's equity, while the underlying assets remain private, but user investments are liquid. Securitize also plans to provide daily net asset values and support on-chain market trading of fund equity.This collaboration builds on the existing relationship between the two parties, as ARK made a strategic investment in Securitize last year. Currently, Wall Street asset management companies are accelerating the introduction of traditional financial products to the blockchain, with early attempts like BlackRock's BUIDL and Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund primarily focused on U.S. Treasury and money market products, now expanding into stocks and private markets.

According to The Information, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are establishing a new artificial intelligence safety standards organization, tentatively named the "Frontier Artificial Intelligence Standards Organization." The organization plans to operate independently to fill the regulatory gap left by the government.

Axios reported that allies of Trump are attacking Dario Amodei, the CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, as a representative of the "doomsday" narrative surrounding artificial intelligence and one of the founders of the effective altruism movement. Sources say that during the midterm elections, allies may target Anthropic when countering his warnings about AI safety; due to his political stance and concerns about AI safety, he is seen as an easy target. This is concerning for investors as the company is preparing for an anticipated record-breaking initial public offering.The report states that a memo began circulating internally within the White House this week, attempting to portray effective altruism as a fringe, cult-like group detached from mainstream America, with Axios claiming to have obtained the document. The memo was written by a Trump political advisor not currently employed by the White House, stating that effective altruism "has established a doomsday pipeline for artificial intelligence," placing Amodei at the foundational position of the movement, while also mentioning his sister, Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, referring to these connections as "Anthropic nodes." A source close to the government said that Amodei embodies an ideology and globalist innovation path that contradicts the president's "America First" agenda.Anthropic has been distancing itself from effective altruism. Daniela Amodei stated in a 2025 Wired report that she does not agree with the term. Dario Amodei has insisted in interviews that he is not a member of the movement and has promoted the benefits of artificial intelligence.

On Wednesday local time, Anthropic announced that its model Claude identified a previously undescribed enzyme system in vast DNA sequence data, with a repetitive sequence arrangement similar to CRISPR. This is the first achievement of its newly established biological laboratory, which was formed this spring and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the announcement, shares of gene editing companies fell on Wednesday, with CRISPR Therapeutics down 5.54%, Beam Therapeutics down 6.02%, and Prime Medicine down 11.58%.The related task was to search for noteworthy reverse transcriptase systems from large DNA databases. During approximately 21 hours of searching, about 950 Claude agents used around 210 million tokens, with one agent noticing a repetitive DNA sequence arranged near a certain reverse transcriptase gene. The team named this combination the array-associated reverse transcriptase system, primarily found in bacteriophages, which includes reverse transcriptase genes, adjacent accompanying genes, and a set of repetitive DNA sequences. The reverse transcriptase itself has been studied before, and the new finding is that it forms a system together with surrounding non-coding DNA sequences and functionally unknown accompanying proteins.Anthropic stated that researchers still do not know the main function of this system and have not proven that it can perform targeted modifications to DNA like mature gene editing tools. Preliminary experiments found that these repetitive sequences can produce various short RNAs, but this does not equate to having programmable gene editing capabilities. The preprint paper disclosed that to verify whether the discovery could be repeated, the team ran the same search 10 more times;

According to The Information, citing informed sources, China's National Internet Information Office has launched an investigation into AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, triggered by Anthropic's allegations that the two companies secretly routed sensitive user data to their servers. Reports indicate that regulators visited the offices of both companies, interviewing executives and employees, focusing on whether sensitive data related to law enforcement, military, and state-owned enterprises has flowed into U.S. servers.The trigger for this investigation was Anthropic's fourth threat intelligence report released on September 10. This 154-page document accuses seven Chinese labs—Alibaba, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Z.ai, MiniMax, SenseTime, and Xiaomi—of engaging in what it calls "illegal distillation," which involves using the outputs of large models to train smaller models. Anthropic states that distillation itself is a legitimate practice, but it opposes its implementation through fraudulent accounts. The National Internet Information Office initially summoned all seven companies named in the report, but later narrowed the investigation to DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. Anthropic claims that Moonshot AI routed over 23 million interactions to Claude through 5,380 fraudulent accounts, while DeepSeek generated over 12.1 million interactions within a 14-day window in July.The timing of the investigation is quite delicate for both companies.

According to The Information, citing informed sources, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is in talks with data center operator Stream Data Centers to directly lease up to 1GW of data center computing power. The two parties are still in early negotiations, and the final scale has not yet been determined, with the deal possibly not being finalized.If signed, Anthropic will directly become a tenant of the data center and deploy its own servers and chips. The related equipment may include TPUs from Google and Broadcom, and may also use NVIDIA GPUs. Google is also discussing providing credit guarantees for some projects. This is different from renting servers from AWS or Google Cloud, as Anthropic can control the chips, racks, and network equipment itself, paying less in cloud vendor profits but needing to bear the costs of equipment procurement and data center operations.Data center developers interviewed by The Information estimate that a complete computing infrastructure of 1GW scale requires at least $40 billion in capital investment. Anthropic has already directly leased approximately 401MW of data center from TeraWulf this year and announced a partnership with Fluidstack last year to invest $50 billion in building a custom data center. If the deal with Stream reaches 1GW, it will become one of Anthropic's largest direct data center leases to date.

On September 23, the B.AI platform announced that the first model of Anthropic's newly released Claude 5.5 series, Claude Opus 5.5, is officially online, with API and Web Chat both open for simultaneous experience. This model is designed for long-cycle Agent programming and complex knowledge work, achieving Claude Fable 5.1 levels in most tasks, while reducing operating costs by about 40% compared to Opus 5.The model supports 1M Token ultra-long context and up to 128K output, demonstrating leading capabilities in Computer Use and multi-step automation scenarios. From today, developers and users can directly access Claude Opus 5.5 through the B.AI platform. You are welcome to log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience it immediately.

On September 22, OpenAI released two new models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, just minutes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5. Both models are positioned below GPT-6 Astra and are cheaper and faster options aimed at everyday work. OpenAI also reduced the API prices for both models by 50% compared to the promotional price of GPT-5.6, with Sol's input and output prices set at $2 and $10 per million tokens, respectively, while Luna's prices dropped to $0.1 and $0.5.In terms of performance, OpenAI cited Zapier's AutomationBench benchmark, stating that GPT-6 Sol scored 33.2% under the highest inference settings, with a cost of $0.27 per task, while Claude Opus 5 scored 26.9% at its highest settings, with a cost over 11 times higher per task. In the Agents' Last Exam test, GPT-6 Sol achieved a top score of 56.4%. In the OSWorld 2 computer usage test, GPT-6 Sol nearly matched Claude Opus 5's moderate effort score at 60.5% to 60.3%, with costs approximately 80% lower.

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its Claude 5.5 series. Anthropic stated that the new model's performance on most tasks has reached the level of its most expensive flagship model, Claude Fable 5.1, but the operating costs are 20% lower than the previous generation Opus 5 and 60% lower than Fable 5.1. In terms of pricing, the input and output token prices for Opus 5.5 are $4 per million and $20 per million, respectively, while the cache read price has dropped to $0.2 per million.In benchmark testing, Opus 5.5 scored 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4, higher than Fable 5.1's 55.8% and GPT-6 Astra's 57.9%; FrontierCode scored 54.4%, higher than Fable 5.1's 50.3%; GDPval-AA v2.1 scored 1846, higher than Fable 5.1's 1735. However, GPT-6 Astra still leads Opus 5.5 in the AutomationBench and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 tests.This is the first model released after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the industry to slow down the pace of AI capability enhancement, and it continues to use the same cybersecurity and biosafety measures as Fable 5.1.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei plans to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, with the meeting focusing on the future development of artificial intelligence. Amodei will speak remotely, and other speakers include Joshua Bengio, co-chair of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Artificial Intelligence, and Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face.