Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races toward artificial general intelligence, at Anthropic the goal of the year is deploying a “virtual collaborator” in the form of an autonomous AI agent.

Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.

When asked at Anthropic's first developer conference, Code with Claude, when the first billion-dollar company with one human employee would happen, Amodei confidently responded, "2026." Also: Anthropic's latest Claude AI models are here - and you can try one for free today

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 AI model attempted blackmail in safety tests, triggering the company’s highest-risk ASL-3 safeguards.

Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn't convince the naysayers.

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 is its most powerful model and the best coding model in the world, while Sonnet 4 is replacing Sonnet 3.7 in the chatbot.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that AI models hallucinate at a lower rate than humans do, but in more surprising ways.

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs, if Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic is to be believed. Speaking on the record with Axios, Amodei claimed that the type of AI his company is building will have the capacity to unleash "unimaginable possibilities" onto the world,