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 latest versions of Anthropic's Claude generative AI models made their debut Thursday, including a heavier-duty model built specifically for coding and complex tasks. Anthropic launched the new Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet models during its Code with Claude developer conference and executives said the new tools mark a significant step forward in terms of reasoning and deep thinking skills.

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

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 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,

During its inaugural developer conference, Anthropic launched two new AI models the startup claims are among the industry's best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks.

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

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.

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.”

A third-party research institute Anthropic partnered with to test Claude Opus 4 recommended against deploying an early version because it tends to "scheme."

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