SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, O…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.

Anthropic built the Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China’s AI labs out of its most powerful public model. The loudest complaints came from its own side of the firewall. On 9 June, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a tamed, public-facing version of Mytho…

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepM…

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.
Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonp…

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In…

Anthropic taps TCS to scale its enterprise AI deployments

The partnership will see TCS creating a business unit focused on deploying Anthropic’s AI models to its customers.

What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it
What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going publ…

Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems. The company says it is reversing course and will be more transparent about when the restrictions kick in, even if that means Fable refuses more queries. Fable […]

OpenAI and Anthropic keep warning about AI risks, then releasing bigger models and filing for IPOs
OpenAI and Anthropic keep warning about AI risks, then releasing bigger models and filing for IPOs

In the past fortnight, the two most powerful AI labs on the planet have published research papers, blog posts, and policy proposals warning that frontier artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone can control it. In the very same stretch, …