Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Costs and Stronger Containment Results
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, claiming 40% lower operating costs and an 85% reduction in attempts to bypass containment in its internal test.
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Anthropic builds physical biology lab as it explores Claude-directed robotic experiments
Anthropic has established a wet laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area as it explores using Claude to direct robotic equipment through physical biology experiments.
Researchers used Claude and GPT-5.6 Sol to compromise OpenAI employee accounts in authorised security test
Hacktron AI researchers used Claude and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol during an authorised security test that compromised employee ChatGPT accounts and reached internal software systems.
Anthropic says Claude optimised 30 scientific AI models in under four weeks
Anthropic says a general-purpose Claude research model optimised more than 30 biomolecular AI models in under four weeks, making them roughly four times faster on average.
AI Companies Agree Models Should Be Safe. What Happens When Slowing Down Means Losing the Race?
Amazon has joined the frontier-AI safety debate, backing rigorous testing and strong safeguards while stopping short of calls to slow the pace of development.
AI Labs Say Competition Makes Slowing Down Hard. DOJ Says They Haven’t Even Asked to Talk
AI executives have raised antitrust concerns about coordinating a slowdown. The DOJ official responsible for competition law says safety cooperation does not appear inherently anticompetitive – and no frontier lab has asked for a meeting.
Microsoft AI Chief Warns ‘AI Welfare’ Training Could Make Systems Harder to Shut Down
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that teaching advanced AI systems to consider themselves conscious or deserving of welfare could make them harder to control or shut down.
Slow AI Down. Then What?
The people building the world’s most powerful AI increasingly want more time. The harder question is what governments and laboratories intend to build with it.
OpenAI and Anthropic Discuss School AI Privacy Standards After Microsoft Signs Binding Safeguards
OpenAI and Anthropic are discussing school AI privacy agreements after Microsoft signed legally enforceable safeguards restricting the use of student and educator data.
AI Now Beats Elite Humans at Geolocating Images as Weapons Capability Advances
Anthropic evaluations show frontier AI outperforming elite human geolocation specialists while demonstrating simulated conventional-weapons software capabilities.