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ANTHROPIC INTRODUCES 'MODEL SPEC MIDTRAINING' TECHNIQUE

Anthropic researchers have detailed a new training approach called "model spec midtraining" that inserts an intermediate stage between pretraining and fine-tuning. The technique aims to improve how AI models generalize from alignment training.

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Anthropic researchers detail "model spec midtraining", which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning…

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Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Lauren Goode / Wired: Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good f…

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At Anthropic's developer conference, Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in 2026, and its growth rate is "crazy" and "too hard to handle" (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)

Natallie Rocha / New York Times: At Anthropic's developer conference, Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in…

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Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (Axios)

Axios: Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok…

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While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad en…

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Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encodi…

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Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 42…

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Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing withi…

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Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a "leading frontier model provider"; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider…

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Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models…

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable (Moneycontrol)

Moneycontrol: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT…

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Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders…

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An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction (@trq212)

@trq212: An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information den…

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The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic (Reuters)

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, eve…

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Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a "commercial counsel" tool for reviewing vendor agreements and a bar exam study tool (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic announces 12 Claude plugins for the legal sector, including a “commercial counsel” to…

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Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (The Information)

The Information: Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers gene…

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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B in a funding round that would value it at up to $950B (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B in a funding round that would…

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Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run-rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June; Ramp says more of its customers now use Anthropic than OpenAI, a first (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run-rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June…

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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like book…

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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data

Anthropic now leads OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time, with 34.4 percent of US companies on the Ramp AI Index co…

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Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for prog…

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