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Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company, creators of the Claude LLM family, founded by former OpenAI researchers to build steerable, reliable, and constitutional AI systems.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Constitutional AI?

A methodology developed by Anthropic to train AI models using a set of rules (a constitution) to guide safety, utility, and harmlessness without human labelers.

How does Claude compare to GPT?

Claude models are highly regarded for their long context windows, coding capabilities, and strict adherence to safety guidelines.

Quick Facts

  • CategoryFoundational AI
  • Key ApplicationSafe conversational AI models, enterprise LLM alignment, and mechanistic interpretability research.

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VentureBeatJun 18, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Code Artifacts update brings live, shared dashboards and interactive workspaces to enterprises

Anthropic announced a potentially game-changing new feature for users of Claude Code on the Claude Team and Enterprise subscription plans: Artifacts . This upda

WiredJun 18, 2026

The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time

Anthropic still can't distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong

Latent SpaceJun 18, 2026

The Professor of Outputmaxxing - Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

WiredJun 17, 2026

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy

Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom's access to Claude Mythos over claims o

TechCrunch AIJun 17, 2026

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight - a fear the Anthropic bla

VentureBeatJun 17, 2026

Anthropic ships major Claude Design overhaul with design system imports, code round-trips, and a fix for its token-burning problem

When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a " research preview ," it generated the kind of instant traction most product teams dream about: more

TechCrunch AIJun 17, 2026

Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

Ars TechnicaJun 16, 2026

Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

WiredJun 16, 2026

'Dangerous' AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

The US government crackdown on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm

VentureBeatJun 16, 2026

US Government directs Anthropic to pause Claude Fable 5 models

In a surprising safety intervention, the US Commerce Department has ordered Anthropic to suspend deployment of Claude Fable 5 models.

TechCrunch AIJun 15, 2026

The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is

TechCrunch StartupsJun 14, 2026

As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future

Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India's AI ambitions.

TechCrunch AIJun 13, 2026

Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.

VentureBeatJun 13, 2026

Anthropic blocks all public access to Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 following US government order - what enterprises should do

The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable

TechCrunch AIJun 13, 2026

Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired - the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed

WiredJun 13, 2026

Anthropic Says It's Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

"The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5," the company said in a blog post.

TechCrunch AIJun 12, 2026

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,

SpaceX's record IPO, Bezos' Prometheus rising and Anthropic's controversial call for AI limits
SiliconANGLEJun 12, 2026

SpaceX's record IPO, Bezos' Prometheus rising and Anthropic's controversial call for AI limits

Blastoff! Elon Musk's SpaceX went public Thursday evening and raised a stunning $75 billion, easily an all-time record. Investors bid the stock up 19% over the $135 asking price Friday morning, then shares closed at about $161, giving the company a valuation $2.1 trillion. It's likely to bode well f

VentureBeatJun 11, 2026

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0 , a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's

Crunchbase NewsJun 11, 2026

Before You Cheer The IPO Window, Watch Where The Money Goes

A public SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic would become some of the best-capitalized acquirers on the planet, writes MGV's Marc Schröder, who explains that the bigge

TechCrunch AIJun 11, 2026

Anthropic's Dario Amodei has just one direct report

If founders and other business leaders weren't already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, they're going to

WiredJun 11, 2026

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' AI Researchers Using Claude

The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude's ability to develop competing AI models.

VentureBeatJun 10, 2026

Anthropic CEO calls for FAA-style regulation of powerful AI models: what enterprises should know

In a sweeping new essay titled " Policy on the AI Exponential ," Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei publicly calls for new government regulations governi

TechCrunch AIJun 9, 2026

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest startups like Anthropic, Anduril, an

TechCrunch VentureJun 9, 2026

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril,

TechCrunch AIJun 9, 2026

Anthropic's Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

Ars TechnicaJun 9, 2026

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

WiredJun 9, 2026

Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a 'Safe' Version for the Rest of You

Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can't be used for cyberattacks.

TechCrunch AIJun 9, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk a

TechCrunch AIJun 9, 2026

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk a

TechCrunch StartupsJun 9, 2026

It's not FAANG anymore. It's MANGOS.

With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords - and a new acronym to m

Crunchbase NewsJun 9, 2026

AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits

A total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May, but the standout trend was not new AI models, but rather the businesses helping enterprises

WiredJun 8, 2026

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic

The ChatGPT-maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.

TechCrunch AIJun 8, 2026

OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic

The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms.

WiredJun 6, 2026

Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

Plus: Hackers use Meta's AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.

WiredJun 5, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren't Picking Sides

"Why wouldn't you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?" says one venture capitalist. "It's the same here."

TechCrunch AIJun 4, 2026

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic's Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI's returns

Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billio

TechCrunch StartupsJun 3, 2026

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claud

Crunchbase NewsJun 3, 2026

Anthropic Funding Pushed Startup Investment To Near-Record Levels In May As Exit Market Reopened

All told, global venture funding reached $92 billion in May, marking the second-largest monthly total on record, just behind February, Crunchbase data shows. Of