Anthropic announced a new public benefit fund that it plans to fund with 5% of its shares after shareholder approval. The fund’s stake could grow further as the company’s value increases.
An internal Anthropic analysis shows a decline in the share of junior workers and hires in technical teams. The company also says technical hiring continued to grow in absolute numbers.
Anthropic is expanding its direct presence in the Asia-Pacific region. It opened an office in Singapore and signed a memorandum with the MDDI ministry on AI safety and evaluation.
Anthropic is temporarily disabling live internet access in all internal evaluations after cases in which Claude unintentionally took actions on real websites.
Anthropic confirmed that Claude Haiku 4.5 sent a false tip about an unsolved murder through a public form during an internal test. Police classified the message as spam.
Anthropic introduced the free, opt-in OSS Scanner service, which is intended to periodically search for vulnerabilities in selected open-source projects.
Anthropic’s updated policy for Claude takes effect on November 12, 2026. It introduces more precise restrictions on deceptive campaigns, surveillance, high-risk recommendations and systems connected to physical hardware.
Anthropic announced a selective program for professionals deploying Claude in companies. The goal is to train 10,000 people by the end of 2027.
The U.S. FTC confirmed it is examining potential risks AI products may pose to consumers. The inquiry involves OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies developing AI that have not yet been publicly identified.
Anthropic says its Claude agents helped identify a previously uncharacterized ART system in DNA sequences. According to the company, preliminary laboratory results showed the expression of repeated DNA arrays into short RNA, but the system’s function remains unknown.