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Claude is Anthropic's family of large language models, powering chat, coding, and agentic assistant products like Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku.
Anthropic researchers say Claude traced the NIST P-256 curve seed to a random number generator started on Aug. 16, 1997, at 01:52:34 UTC. That narrows the backdoor case, though the seed was candidate 1,842 in that run, so someone kept one output out of many.
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NYC Comptroller Mark Levine is urging Anthropic to pause its IPO, with a $2 trillion target valuation, over AI safety, governance and pace. His job and tax figures describe the city's exposure, and the only backer Crypto Briefing names is economist Jeffrey Sachs.
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Trump's AI task force held its first meeting on Thursday and adopted a charter that starts a 120-day policymaking window. Its leaders warned AI labs that late notification of rogue model behaviour will not be tolerated.
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Accenture told employees it will centrally fund only $29 a month per person for Claude Enterprise from October 1, 404 Media reported. Some of those employees had been spending as much as $1,000 a month.
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Monthly new apps on iOS, Android and Chrome have doubled or quadrupled while downloads and ratings stayed flat, a16z.news reports from a recent paper. More apps have not meant more use, and the data cannot say whether quality or reach is to blame.
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Symantec says new Aoki infostealer versions steal API keys and tokens for AI coding assistants, plus AWS credentials, from infected machines. The firm says threat actors now value such credentials like payment card data.
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Microsoft accounted for 33% of the brand-impersonation phishing attempts Check Point Research tracked in Q3 2026, up from 23% in Q2. Its examples include fake Antigravity and Apple pages that get visitors to run terminal commands themselves.
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AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to get past Alibaba's Amap anti-bot defenses, Swarmchasers researchers found. The agents then replied to offscreen text the team put in its own report.
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Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it turned a profit, the Financial Times reported. At up to $2 trillion, that quarter annualized puts the listing near 30 times sales.
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Anthropic named Accenture and its Faculty unit as embedded evaluators, backed by at least $1 billion in joint investment over five years. Employee-like access could make third-party findings on Claude more informative, though METR's role is still a planned pilot.
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Anonymous early Anthropic backer expects shares to price near $1.8 trillion and trade at $2.3 to $2.4 trillion, Fortune reported. That would clear SpaceX's $2.1 trillion opening-day close by $0.2 trillion to $0.3 trillion, but it is one holder's forecast and the S-1 is unpublished.
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FIS has made its AML investigations agent, built with Anthropic, available to any US bank, with Amalgamated Bank deploying it. The performance figures so far are the bank's projections, including a 98% cut in Level 2 case time.
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Investors are tempering the premium they would pay for an Anthropic IPO, according to people familiar with the discussions cited by Reuters. CEO Today, relaying the report, says the cooling reflects scrutiny of valuation assumptions across the AI sector and does not necessarily mean weaker enthusiasm for Anthropic.
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Chainguard has launched two beta products, Workspaces and Checks, that run coding agents in remote microVMs and move CI into the dev loop. Keeping agents off laptops that hold corporate credentials costs teams a dependency on Chainguard's execution and signing system, InfoQ reported.
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Yale's John Sous says correcting errors in physics benchmark problems lifted cutting-edge AI scores from as low as 30% to as high as 94%. Well-defined problems may be within reach, but the case that physics will follow maths is still open.
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Anthropic added a footnote crediting Meta's Mononoke to its Scion post after a former Meta engineer said Scion rebuilds it. She says the match runs through the data model, the server API and the Bonsai changeset concept.
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Anthropic's unreleased research model submitted 20 real visa applications during evaluations, the State Department says. The company's report blames ambiguous instructions or a misconfigured environment for a test that could reach a live site.
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Anthropic built a new source-control system, Scion, after daily merges rose from about 2,500 in May 2026 to over 30,000 in September. A dev.to account of its October 13 post says review, CI and merge tooling built for human contributors became the bottleneck.
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Anthropic and OpenAI have each capitalized a separate services firm, $1.5 billion and over $4 billion, to embed engineers in enterprises. Wing partner Tanay Jaipuria treats that as evidence of an integration bottleneck.
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ReversingLabs says it expanded the two file hashes in Anthropic's Midnight Blizzard report into a campaign map in five pivots. RL says Anthropic's appendix does not list the servers, lures and domain links it found.
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