Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races toward artificial general intelligence, at Anthropic the goal of the year is deploying a “virtual collaborator” in the form of an autonomous AI agent.

The company said it was taking the measures as a precaution and that the team had not yet determined if its newst model has crossed the benchmark that would require that protection.

Anthropic, a leading AI startup, is reversing its ban on using AI for job applications, after a Business Insider report on the policy.

Anthropic has long been warning about these risks—so much so that in 2023, the company pledged to not release certain models until it had developed safety measures capable of constraining them. Now this system,

The quirky leader of the $61 billion AI startup Anthropic talked about the near- and long-term future of AI at his company's developer event in San Francisco.

Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn't convince the naysayers.

What if artificial intelligence could not only understand your needs but also anticipate them with near-human precision? Imagine a system that dissects complex problems, crafts compelling narratives, and delivers nuanced insights—all while adapting ...

Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful.