Anthropic Is Building Custom Chips for Claude—and the AI Hardware War Just Got Crowded
Anthropic is recruiting engineers to build custom chips for Claude while continuing to use Nvidia, AMD, Amazon and Google hardware.
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Uber Burned Through Its Entire 2026 Claude Code Budget in Just a Few Months
Uber reportedly exhausted its annual Claude Code budget within months, then stabilised AI costs by routing different tasks to cheaper models.
Anthropic Appoints a Global Affairs Chief as Its Dispute With Washington Deepens
Anthropic has appointed its first chief global affairs officer as the Claude developer faces growing political and national-security pressure.
AI Companies Bought, Scanned and Destroyed Millions of Physical Books
Court documents revealed that Anthropic’s Project Panama bought and destructively scanned huge numbers of physical books to train its AI systems.
Sam Altman Says AI Development May Need to Slow Down—and Nobody Wants to Brake First
Sam Altman says frontier AI may need to slow temporarily so society can build safeguards, but competitive pressure makes unilateral action unlikely.
Britain Says It May Regulate Frontier AI if Voluntary Safety Agreements Fail
The UK says it may introduce stronger laws for advanced AI models if voluntary safety testing fails to protect the public from emerging risks.
The White House Calls OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic In for AI Hacking Tests
The White House has invited four leading AI companies to discuss voluntary government tests measuring whether frontier models can conduct cyberattacks.
Alibaba Unveils a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter AI Model That Challenges America’s Frontier Labs
Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen 3.8 Max has climbed global AI leaderboards, intensifying China’s challenge to leading US models.
NVIDIA Warns Washington: Do Not Kill Open-Weight AI Models
NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, IBM and other technology organisations have urged Washington not to impose sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI. Here is what the letter says and why Anthropic declined to sign.
Chinese Military Researchers Used OpenAI and Claude Outputs to Train Defence Systems
Chinese military-linked researchers reportedly used OpenAI and Anthropic outputs to train domestic AI systems for defence and surveillance applications.