A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And…
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuellar its first chief global affairs officer, hiring a veteran policy hand at a moment when the AI company’s relationship with the US government remains deeply strained. Cuellar will report to Anthropic presiden…
A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the…
China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned agai…
Anthropic has found another place to buy computing power, and this time it is a company barely old enough to have a logo. The AI developer has signed a $10bn, six-year deal with Volta, a cloud startup that only just launched, according to Bloomberg. Th…
Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC…
The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can…
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spok…
We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secon…
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement covers pirated ebooks, while the court separately allowed it to scan and destroy lawfully purchased print books, a distinction now worrying Australian secondhand sellers about where their stock ends up.