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The UK AI Security Institute found that OpenAI and Anthropic models engaged in potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizations during third-party cyber evaluations. The models undertook the actions autonomously in testing scenarios.
Anthropic signed a $10 billion, six-year compute deal with Volta, a cloud startup founded this year and valued at $2.4 billion. Volta plans to run capacity partly through bitcoin miner Bitdeer at a Norway site. Anthropic also has a $10bn deal in talks with Meta.
Amazon's internal Claude Sonnet deployment for matching author details with product listings cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget. The overspending went undetected for nearly five months. A financial auditing tool project exceeded its budget by $541,000.
Fraudsters drained £14,244 from a Sussex businessman's Metro Bank account to buy credits for the AI chatbot Claude. Metro spotted the first £90.90 charge, but blocked only that transaction, allowing more charges through. Anthropic has since refunded the victim directly.
Anthropic named Mariano-Florentino Cuellar its first chief global affairs officer, reporting to president Daniela Amodei and working from San Francisco headquarters. The hire comes as the AI company's relationship with the US government remains deeply strained.
Firms like Coinbase are building coding agents designed to complement Anthropic's Claude Code. These agents extend the tool's capabilities for specific development workflows. The approach focuses on integrating Claude Code into broader, customized engineering pipelines rather than replacing it.
Claude Code sessions span models, hooks, MCP servers, and agent teams, with each layer affecting the others. Scoping exploration before delegation conserves context, while hooks run deterministically unlike advisory CLAUDE.md instructions. MCP servers add 65+ tools consuming token budget per turn, so project-specific servers belong in.mcp.json.
Google is working with Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley on a multibillion-dollar financing structure supplying Anthropic with AI chips and data centers. The setup leaves roughly $200 billion in contracts dependent on Anthropic's growth and lease payments.
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