The AI startup has hired law firm Wilson Sonsini for an IPO that could happen as early as next year, the FT reports. OpenAI is reportedly eyeing the second half of 2026 for its own.
Anthropic just made its first acquisition, too, buying software maker Bun.
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.
Former UK leader Rishi Sunak has taken on a “senior adviser” role at Microsoft and Anthropic, where he’ll deliver “high-level strategic perspectives on macro-economic and geopolitical trends.” It sounds a little less involved than former deputy PM Nick Clegg’s role at Meta, but one more of these and we’ve got a trend.
Ballooning liabilities have underwriters avoiding AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, the Financial Times reports. They’re spooked by the sheer volume of claims for things like wrongful death and copyright infringement, as well as enormous judgments against them. Investor funds are reportedly being considered to settle claims.
Anthropic’s David Hershey joins the show to discuss Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the current landscape for agentic AI.
The landmark settlement is poised to become the first major windfall for creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, with authors expected to receive around $3,000 per book or work.
AI firms are now working with weapons makers and the military. Safety expert Heidy Khlaaf breaks down what that means.
The partnership will “help employees across German governments, administrations and research institutions use our technology to spend more time on people, not paperwork,” according to the blog post.
It can create and edit files in Excel and PowerPoint, plus create documents and PDFs, the company announced Tuesday. “Claude creates actual files from your instructions—whether working from
uploaded data, researching information, or building from scratch,” according to the blog post.
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The California bill would require leading AI companies to publish safety frameworks with details about how they manage “catastrophic risks,” as well as provide certain whistleblower protections. Anthropic’s support comes after weeks of negotiations with the AI industry on the bill’s specifics. We’ll keep an eye on the upcoming floor vote.
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“We view browser-using AI as inevitable: so much work happens in browsers that giving Claude the ability to see what you’re looking at, click buttons, and fill forms will make it substantially more useful,” the company wrote in a blog post. But an AI agent doing such things on your behalf also introduces substantial risks. That’s why Anthropic says it’s just piloting the feature.
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Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity’s new Comet web browser, the AI talent frenzy, and a future IPO.
Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, two leaders of Anthropic’s coding product, Claude Code, are reportedly back at the company after news broke earlier this month that they had departed for Anysphere, the developer of Cursor.
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Meta and Anthropic defended AI training as fair use, but with major caveats.
Kyle Chayka, who wrote for this website about the “airspace” aesthetic created by social media, is now looking into how LLM models affect creativity. He suggests that if Silicon Valley once homogenized decor — and, to some degree, created beige influencers — it may now be making LLM users less original, too.
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