Anthropic

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<p>Anthropic occupies a distinctive lane in the AI race: It builds for-profit AI platforms while devoting more resources than many rivals to studying the ethical and political implications of AI adoption.&nbsp;</p><p>
Such scruples haven’t kept Anthropic from raising money or generating revenue. The Amazon- and Google-backed company is currently valued at $61.5&nbsp;billion, and it’s reportedly on track to bring in $5&nbsp;billion this year, up from $1&nbsp;billion in 2024, thanks in part to the popularity of its Opus code-generating AI.
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Who can rival OpenAI’s ubiquitous chatbot ChatGPT? A team of ex-OpenAI researchers are hoping the answer is Anthropic. Former OpenAI research executives including brother and sister Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 to create the safest AI systems out there—ones that wouldn’t spew misinformation or harmful responses as some chatbots, including ChatGPT, have been known to do. Anthropic’s chatbot Claude, released in early 2023, has some notable differences from its peers: The company claims the chatbot is “less likely to produce harmful outputs,” and describes its aim as being helpful, harmless, and honest. The startup also recently expanded the number of words Claude can process in one query to 75,000—the length of many novels—which it says enables Claude to accurately analyze technical documents like financial filings or legal contracts. (OpenAI has recently expanded the number of words ChatGPT can process to counter Anthropic's advantage.) Go-to-market lead Sandy Banerjee told Fortune that Anthropic has customers “in the thousands” using Claude, from Y Combinator startups to large public companies like Zoom. The company recently raised a whopping $4 billion from Amazon and is reportedly in talks to raise $2 billion more from Google. That is on top of $550 million the company had raised previously from Google and funding from other investors including Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

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Jim Edwards

Three guys using Anthropic’s Claude hacked into OpenAI and accessed its source code for $6,500 reward

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Catherina Gioino

‘We need sufficient means of control before it is all too late’: King Charles III warns AI players on concerns of ‘existential dangers’

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Beatrice Nolan

As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing

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Stavros Gadinis

Trump just explained why an AI agency cannot work. He is right

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As Anthropic heads towards a $2 trillion IPO, some of the loudest critics are company insiders

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https://fortune.com/2026/09/18/open-ai-hacked-anthropic-claude-source-code-6500-reward/?itm_source=parsely-api

Anthropic merges its Claude chat and agentic Cowork products into a single AI assistant as part of a push to build an AI superapp

https://fortune.com/2026/09/16/anthropic-merges-its-claude-chat-and-agentic-cowork-products-into-a-single-ai-assistant-as-part-of-a-push-to-build-an-ai-superapp/?itm_source=parsely-api

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Mark Zuckerberg says AI doesn't need an industry-wide slowdown because market forces and competition will push companies to make their models safe

https://fortune.com/2026/09/16/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-safety-jensen-huang-dario-amodei/?itm_source=parsely-api

Jake Angelo

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/?itm_source=parsely-api

Emily Forlini

An ex-Anthropic researcher claims AI could kill us all by 2030. But he fails to answer the most essential question: What are we supposed to do about it?

https://fortune.com/2026/09/10/ex-anthropic-researcher-jacob-coxon-ai-could-end-humanity-fails-to-answer-most-essential-question/?itm_source=parsely-api

Urgent calls from OpenAI, Anthropic for an AI slowdown fall on deaf ears with Trump, Xi ahead of next week's meeting

https://fortune.com/2026/09/15/ai-slowdown-agenda-trump-xi-jinping-meeting/?itm_source=parsely-api

https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/anthropic-2-trillion-ipo-critics/?itm_source=parsely-api

https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/trump-ai-agency-independent-standards-board-openai-anthropic/?itm_source=parsely-api

Anthropic researcher resigns, warning that AI companies are "gambling with our lives"

https://fortune.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-resigns-warn-ai-companies-gambling-with-lives/?itm_source=parsely-api

Anthropic just mapped out which jobs AI could potentially replace. A 'Great Recession for white-collar workers' is absolutely possible

https://fortune.com/2026/03/06/ai-job-losses-report-anthropic-research-great-recession-for-white-collar-workers/?itm_source=parsely-api

At just 21 years old, Lucy Guo co-founded Scale AI. Two years later, she walked away and went on to become the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.


Now, she’s building Passes, a creator monetization platform shaping the future of digital media. Lucy sits down with Fortune Daily to discuss: 
• Building an AI giant before the boom 
• Bouncing back from a contentious exit 
• Early bets on Anthropic and the future of artificial intelligence 
• How a new generation of multi-hyphenate tech founders is wielding global influence


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• Fame to Fortune: Kristin Stoller sits down with two-time World Cup champion and former USWNT goalie Ashlyn Harris to break down the business of sports. 
• High Stakes Strategy: Former FBI lead hostage negotiator and CEO of The Black Swan Group, Chris Voss, shares negotiation tactics for high-net-worth, high-security environments.
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Should the tech industry drastically slow down AI development?
On today’s episode of Fortune Daily, we break down an intense weekend of debate surrounding long-term AI safety and frontier model development. Following Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay urging the industry to “pace the frontier,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat down with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell for an exclusive interview.
In a striking moment from one of the central figures accelerating the AI race, Altman agrees that development may need to be paced. We share exclusive clips from the interview and sit down with Fortune’s senior AI reporter Emily Forlini to break down what this means for the future of tech, safety regulations, and the global race for artificial intelligence.
In this episode: • Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” • Exclusive clips: Sam Altman sits down with Alyson Shontell • Analysis and context with Fortune Senior AI Reporter Emily Forlini
Watch Alyson Shontel’s full interview with Sam Altman on Titans and Distruptors: https://youtu.be/RSZSGa9if8k

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Why ChatGPT’s Founder Wants to Pump the Brakes on AI | Fortune Daily

In this week’s episode, Substack CEO Chris Best joins the show to discuss the company’s new AI-detection feature. Plus, an ex-Anthropic researcher sparks a media frenzy with a warning that AI could become smart enough to “kill us all,” while OpenAI claims it cracked a $1 million math problem — sparking a backlash amongst mathematicians. Fortune AI Editor Jeremy Kahn and Senior AI Reporter Beatrice Nolan break down the biggest AI stories of the week.


Substack CEO: AI Prose is an “Acquired Distaste” | Fortune AI Weekly 

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Chinese AI Models like Ox Alpha and Kimi K3 are not only gaining popularity, but currently dominate the landscape outside of the US and Europe. Should investors worry? Also, OpenAI released reports on the Hugging Face attack which revealed that a full week went by before they realized their own agents were attacking Hugging Face. And an Op-Ed in the WSJ that was written in part by AI caused quite a stir — but should it have? Fortune AI Editor Jeremy Kahn and Senior AI Reporter Beatrice Nolan break down the biggest AI news of the week.


Chinese Models Are Quietly Catching Up. Should Investors Worry? | Fortune AI Weekly