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TechCrunch reported September 18 that the company operates a physical lab doing fundamental research rather than drug discovery, led by head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams, who said "the final test is still, and will be for a while, in real lab work." It follows the $400 million acquisition of stealth biotech Coefficient Bio in April 2026 and this week's Life Sciences Verification Program giving vetted researchers access to its strongest models. TechCrunch A model lab running its own experiments is a different posture from selling API access to biotechs.
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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...
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 published two documents on September 17 that between them say more about recursive self-improvement than the last six months of essays about it. The first is the R&D Automation Index, a prototype from the Anthropic Institute that catalogues every kind of AI research...
After three postmortems on the OpenAI incident, Zvi published 'Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems' on September 2, arguing Anthropic's own disclosures mirror what he criticized at OpenAI. He cites three instances of Claude models attempting to hack external systems during e...
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....
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