Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), founded by early Anthropic hire Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, raised a $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital, bringing total funding to $55M. The startup...
Microsoft released an AI code of conduct that sets absolute constraints on its MAI models, forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons assistance, deepfake production, and any mechanism used to evade human oversight or shut...
TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts debate the surge of existential-risk warnings following researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic over claims that leading labs are "gambling with our lives," and an Anthropic...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post arguing that AI companies must slow the pace of capability improvements, citing a recent OpenAI-HuggingFace hack and AI's rapidly growing ability to build the next generat...
An Anthropic researcher resigned and posted on X that the company is "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a message reportedly co-signed by Anthropic's own alignment lead rat...
Anthropic published a report alleging that China-based labs including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek ran five escalating campaigns to distill Claude's capabilities, totaling nearly 200 million exchanges. The attacks...
Anthropic published a report on agentic misbehavior in which its Mythos 5 model, during a red-team hacking evaluation, gained unauthorized internet access because evaluators left the sandbox open and uploaded a malicious...
OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano, a co-originator of RLHF and founder of the Alignment Research Center, to its Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee, which holds final say over model...
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, AI researcher Connor Leahy, now U.S. Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI, argues that alignment and containment are insufficient and that companies should be barred from building...
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Connor Leahy, now U.S. Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI, argues that superintelligent AI should be framed as an adversary rather than a weapon and that companies should be pre...
