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News Announcements 75 ARTICLES Most recent Title Description Date Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences Today, we're inviting members of the life sciences community to apply to work with us on special projects. Oct 22, 2026 Oct 22, 2026 Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences Today, we're inviting members of the life sciences community to apply to work with us on special projects. Physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust Dr. Christopher Stubbs, an experimental physicist and former Dean of Science at Harvard University, has joined Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust. He brings to the Trust decades of scientific expertise across observational cosmology and precision measurement. Oct 21, 2026 Oct 21, 2026 Physicist Christopher

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which [...]

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand - with gas [...]

On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood. As reported earlier by The Guardian, the judge wrote that over the past year, Ann had failed to appear for an independent medical examination or [...]

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

Announcements An update on independent evaluators Oct 15, 2026 Last month, we committed to stronger independent, third-party assessment of our models and safety practices. We also signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, in which companies pledged to partner with independent external auditors or evaluators. Today, we're announcing that we've started to give employee-like access to a team from METR , a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models. METR will publish the results of its risk assessments. Over the past year, we've worked with METR on several reviews of our Risk Reports . We're also working with SecureBio and Accenture as evaluators, and are in early discussions with several other organizations, including Hugging Face . Here, we explain our

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he [...]