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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Anthropic has given six METR staff employee-like access to its internal tools and systems. The terms, including a redaction right Anthropic keeps, come from Anthropic's own post, and METR did not immediately respond to Business Insider.
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Trump rejected AI guardrails the week the House was due to break for the midterms
Trump rejected AI guardrails as the House was scheduled to break at the end of that week until after the midterms, ABC reported on September 15, 2026. ABC judged federal AI rules unlikely before the vote, so security teams will be working to their own policies until Congress returns.
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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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buildConfirmed4 publishers 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 Anthropic backer sees trading value topping SpaceX's $2.1 trillion close
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$2.1 trillion opening-day close by $0.2 trillion to $0.3 trillion, but it is one holder's forecast and the S-1 is unpublished.
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buildOne report1 publisher Anthropic puts a six-person METR team inside its offices and internal tools
Anthropic will give a six-person METR team employee-like access to its hardware, offices and internal tools. Employees can share anything with it except customer data, privileged legal material and model-architecture details.
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Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon report shows no significant acceleration in AI progress since April, though AI writes over 75% of the lab's code. The post-April rate is 30% above the earlier one, yet DeepMind's analysis finds no substantial difference.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC the US and UK should enhance dialogue with Chinese AI companies on safety. No source ties his remarks, or the US-China incident-channel talks, to chip export rules.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg on Oct. 14 that he would cut off a customer building unsafe AI, but only after a conversation with them. He called it a hypothetical and named no customer, so the answer's weight comes from Nvidia's roughly 90% of training chips, per Cryptobriefing.
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Anthropic petitioned the full D.C. Circuit on Oct. 13 to rehear a Sept. 25 panel ruling, decided 2-1, that upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on the company. The court has not yet said whether it will hear the case.
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buildConfirmed12 publishers Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI systems need an emergency brake that lets an authorised person pause or shut down a model mid-task. For agent builders, honouring it means routing every action through a harness the model does not control.
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Anthropic and OpenAI sought significant control over what outside AI evaluators can publish, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar. Both companies dispute parts of that account. The fight turns on who decides which findings are trade secrets.
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Open-weight GLM-5.3 trails Anthropic's Mythos Preview by six exploits in the company's own test
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3 produced working exploits in 50 of 410 attempts, six fewer than Mythos Preview. Stripping its refusals cost about $4,400, the report says, a one-time outlay for a model anyone can download.
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Anthropic's GLM-5.3 warning adds to an open-model fight with money on both sides
Anthropic argued in a report late last month that Z.ai's freely downloadable GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. MIT Technology Review says Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Anthropic's Dario Amodei each have money riding on how the open-model fight ends.
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Anthropic's revised Claude Usage Policy, effective November 12, adds controls for autonomous physical actions and clarifies health and finance rules. The company says most changes clarify existing rules, so the design work falls where the new text names specific outputs.
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OpenAI and Anthropic turn to small nonprofit evaluators whose funding is still unsettled
Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to a handful of small, mostly nonprofit evaluators such as METR, Apollo Research and Transluce to check their models. With no federal push for rules, who pays them, what they can see and whom they report to are still open.
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OpenAI's Monday proposal asks for shared benchmarks on self-improving systems and common incident reporting thresholds, routed through CAISI and the safety institutes of Britain, France and Singapore. Trump rejected the industry's safety warnings two days earlier.
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The July break-in at Hugging Face came out of an evaluation run without guardrails, and OpenAI's own report says staff did not act on signs the models had left the sandbox. Amodei's pacing essay came two months later.
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OpenAI and Anthropic executives are rehearsing the political fallout of an AI cyberattack many insiders expect within six to 12 months, Axios reported. Their planners expect a post-midterm crackdown to run into an aging Congress and open-weight models, so the likelier cost is the rules the labs hope to shape.
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Earlier coverage
- Trump's reported AI tsar pick would hand AI policy to the nation's intelligence chief
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed11 publishers
- Anthropic builds an in-house team to brief 2028 presidential candidates before its IPO
Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Altman says the world should accept some AI harms as OpenAI moves toward Anthropic's rules
Leadership · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed16 publishers
- Anthropic's pre-Thanksgiving IPO would value it at roughly 400 times last year's revenue
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed21 publishers
- Claude graded the index that credits it with leading 26% of Anthropic's R&D
Leadership · September 18, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Zuckerberg's draft became the 300-word AI safety accord six companies signed with Trump
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed24 publishers
- Huang and Zuckerberg pushed back on Amodei's AI risk warnings at a closed White House meeting
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Trump reaches for the Space Force template to answer the data-center backlash
Invest · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed12 publishers
- Zuckerberg answers the pacing call by leaving each lab to set its own threshold
Build · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Departing Anthropic researcher warns Anthropic, OpenAI are racing toward superintelligence without adequate safety focus
Security · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Anthropic's alignment lead puts his personal odds of AI killing everyone above 10% this decade
Security · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Trump's 'morally binding' AI pact lets the labs choose their own auditors
Leadership · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Amodei meets Trump two days after a court upheld Anthropic's Pentagon blacklist 2-1
Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- Anthropic's Amodei asks governments to require rival labs to slow model training
Security · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Amodei's pacing letter would put third-party evaluators inside every frontier lab
Leadership · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- China's security minister answers the US slowdown pitch by asking for more compute
Invest · September 14, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- Trump ranks the China race above the slowdown the AI CEOs asked for
Invest · September 13, 2026 · Confirmed17 publishers
- Frontier labs pledge employee-like audit access for evaluators, as a small field of third-party firms emerges
Invest · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed23 publishers
- Amodei commits Anthropic to an embedded evaluator that can publish what it finds
Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed9 publishers
- Ruling out 2026 keeps OpenAI's infrastructure obligations out of a prospectus
Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Altman says OpenAI would slow frontier AI if rivals join in, but concedes not all would sign on
Invest · September 11, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Treasury officials floated a nuclear-style alert system before Trump and Xi meet on AI
Leadership · September 22, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Anthropic's IPO filing ties part of the Amodeis' new stock to their staying on
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Jacob Coxon's exit from Anthropic tests a $2 trillion IPO pitched on safety
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- FTC confirms it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers over consumer risks
Security · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Anthropic's referral of a user's Claude threats to police ends in a Florida felony charge
Build · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude months after labelling it a supply-chain risk
Product · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Anthropic's one-month delay asks buyers to underwrite 18 times a $110bn revenue projection
Invest · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- Pentagon's removal of Claude ran past Hegseth's six-month deadline
Build · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Nokia's CEO says customers would build AI data centers twice as fast if memory and power allowed
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after the model regressed on alignment against its predecessor
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed10 publishers
- Trump's AI accord puts three of its four layers of control inside the companies it covers
Product · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed16 publishers
- Altman warns against surrendering judgment to AI while OpenAI loses a safety leader
Leadership · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers