Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
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Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm."
Anthropic's IPO filing shows soaring revenue, mounting costs, and "existential" risks
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose "existential risks to humanity." Revenue grew twelvefold in 2025 to $4.6 billion, but the operating loss widened to $8.06 billion. Backers are aiming for a valuation above $2 trillion, and the IPO is expected to set the bar for the entire AI industry.
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
AMD is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion. Since its founding in 2024, World Labs has built model-training teams for images, video and spatial reconstruction, and advanced its robotics simulation capabilities by acquiring SceniX. Its recently released Atlas is an omni model architecture that predicts new viewpoints from 2D images.
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
llm-anthropic 0.30
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push a new release just to add support for a newly released model.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles .
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. It's a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model for focused coding and knowledge work, with a lower cost per task at faster speed. This post covers what's new, when to choose Sonnet, and how to get started.
AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies' financial data, which was stored on its systems.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30 percent less per task, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work benchmarks. On Terminal-Bench, a coding benchmark, the model jumps from 10.3 to 70.6 percent.
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
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Sep 28
Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next.
2026 in LLMs (so far)
On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.
Bluesky reply bot checker
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well. Unlike Twitter, Bluesky still has a freely available and useful API.
Sep 27
Kākāpō Party
Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026.
Sep 26
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Sep 25
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
Sep 24
Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
Meta positioned Muse as a personal agent at Connect 2026 and announced hardware and feature updates around it. Muse supports voice and live video, runs tasks in the background and will come to all Meta glasses. Each Muse has its own email address, the Mac version supports computer use, and its connector platform has more than 1,500 apps.
Sep 23
The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already.
[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far.
llm-anthropic 0.29
Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5 : llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here"
Sep 22
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models.
How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) is publicly sharing evaluation results using EvalEval's Every Eval Ever schema and Evaluation Cards platform to improve reproducibility in evaluation science.
Sep 21
How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego.
Quoting voxium
An engineer half a month into a new role at a big company says the team's specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets and their resolution, reports and more are all generated by Claude Code. Nobody on the team likes it, but they are being forced to ship as much as they can. He says he has heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, and that people work 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter, with everyone from L1 to L7 engineers doing the same thing and nobody reading anything.
Sep 18
[AINews] not much happened today
Anthropic introduced Projects in Claude Code, allowing one conversation to spawn parallel cloud sessions, pass context between threads and keep running after users leave. Google updated the Antigravity-based harness for Gemini managed agents with Credentials API and Files API, claiming up to 30% lower costs and 22% higher cache-hit rates.
Sep 17
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!
Sep 16
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.
Sep 15
[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
AI Evaluator Forum released AEF-1 as a baseline proposal for independent third-party AI evaluation, covering access, conflicts of interest, funding relationships, recusal and transparency, with xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic signing.
Jul 27
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
Jun 22
Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
How religious are beliefs in the singularity?
Jun 8
Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
When will markets price the singularity?
Jun 1
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?