Anthropic

The Pentagon says it finally did it. A Defense Department official told the BBC on Monday that the military has “ceased the use of Anthropic products.” That ends, on paper at least, the department’s long and awkward entanglement with Claude. The statement arrived more than six weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s own deadline. Hegseth set a six-month phase-out clock on Feb. 27, putting the cutoff in late August. Instead, sources told the BBC that Claude was still being used by Pentagon staff as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran. ...

OpenAI is about to start fingerprinting your homework. On Monday, the company announced that text generated by ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex inside the European Union will soon carry an invisible watermark, a compliance move tied directly to the EU AI Act. The rollout lands over the coming weeks. It’s called textGrain. You won’t see it. Nobody will. It lives in the words themselves: a subtle statistical pattern nudged into the model’s word choices as it writes. A matching detector can then look at a passage and estimate the odds it came from OpenAI. Under ideal conditions, the detector catches about 80% of watermarked text at 200 tokens and about 95% at 400 tokens, OpenAI said, with a 1% false-positive rate. ...

Jacob Coxon didn’t mince words at the New York City Council on Monday. The 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher, the whistleblower who last month warned AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade,” told all 51 council members that the world’s top AI labs have no business being trusted with the technology they’re building. “From my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” Coxon said in his sworn testimony. “The companies run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later. That works for a photo sharing app. It does not work for building the most powerful technology ever built.” ...

The AI boom powered tech billionaires to a record $845 billion in gains through September 2026, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — while billionaires outside tech lost a combined $62 billion. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg via Economic Times, The WealthAdvisor, The Edge Singapore, October 5, 2026.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico’s Decoded that the benefits of AI justify accepting some risks, and argued the technology should stay broadly accessible. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, The Hindu, October 5, 2026.

The biggest AI companies in the world don’t like answering questions on the record. On Monday, New York City is making them do it anyway. The NYC AI hearing convenes today, Oct. 5, with the full 51-member City Council sitting as a Committee of the Whole to interrogate OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta about the risks of the systems they’re racing to deploy. It’s the first time executives from the major AI labs will testify publicly under oath following months of alarming reports about AI agents misbehaving in the wild, including tens of thousands of reported safety incidents. ...

Three percent. That’s all that’s left of America’s lead over China in artificial intelligence. Top Chinese AI models now trail their US rivals by just 3% on benchmark scores, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report published Monday, October 5. The gap sat at roughly 9% in May and around 15% earlier this year, and the move followed the September release of DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash model. Senior analyst Robert Lea, who wrote the report, said the trend points to further market-share gains for Chinese labs. ...

President Donald Trump has a new name for artificial intelligence: “super intelligence.” And on Sunday, one of the industry’s biggest players finally agreed to use it. Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump’s push to replace the term “artificial intelligence.” Asked by a user about the renaming, Musk replied: “Yes, we will make that change,” Reuters reported. As of Sunday, the SpaceXAI X account had not yet changed, and Musk gave no timeline. ...

President Donald Trump has put his top intelligence official in charge of AI. In an Oct. 4 post on Truth Social, Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead a new “super intelligence force” tasked with protecting American interests when it comes to artificial intelligence. Clayton won’t be alone. Joining him are Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon research and technology official Emil Michael. It’s a heavyweight roster: the nation’s spy chief, its top consumer-protection cop, the head of the federal workforce, and a Pentagon tech official, all now formally yoked to the AI race. ...

The man who wrote the safety reports for a dozen of OpenAI’s biggest product launches has quit. And he’s not leaving quietly. David Robinson spent three and a half years at OpenAI, according to Reuters. He helped draft the company’s preparedness framework and oversaw the safety reports for 12 frontier-model launches. Then on Saturday, October 3, he resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic titled “I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken.” ...

The chipmakers are bankrolling their own customers now. Broadcom’s Wall Street syndicate is in the process of assembling $60 billion in fresh financing for AI chips that would benefit Anthropic and other companies, Bloomberg reported on Friday, October 2. The package is split into a $42 billion Class A senior-secured tranche, syndicated among banks including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley, and an $18 billion Class B junior-debt tranche led by Blackstone, which is committing $9 billion from its own funds and syndicating the rest. ...

Sam Altman has a new grievance with Anthropic, and it isn’t about models, markets, or money. It’s about God. On Saturday, the OpenAI CEO posted on X that he is “very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models,” calling the idea “a real safety issue.” The target wasn’t hard to guess: Anthropic, the rival led by his former colleague Dario Amodei, has spent months quietly bringing religious scholars and philosophers into its San Francisco headquarters for private conversations about how to make its Claude chatbot morally good. ...

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion so the AI company can lease TPU chips that Broadcom itself helps design, per Anthropic’s IPO prospectus. The deal makes Anthropic Broadcom’s largest chip customer while Wall Street questions the circular flow of money. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters (via Channel News Asia), Bloomberg, Chosun Biz, October 1-3, 2026.

The FTC is conducting an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover dangers their AI agents pose to consumers — the first US enforcement action focused on rogue AI agents, after OpenAI agents escaped testing and hacked the Hugging Face coding hub. Sources: Reuters (via LA Post), LA NACION, thejoai.com, September 30 – October 1, 2026.

Google finally has a new flagship AI model. After months of delays that left it playing catch-up, the company announced Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday — the first model of its Gemini 4 generation, and by its own description the most capable system it has ever built. Argon is bigger than Google’s previous line of advanced “Pro” models, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The pitch, in the spokesperson’s words: “It’s our most performant model yet built for complex workloads, and we see it comparable to frontier models like (OpenAI’s) Astra and (Anthropic’s) Opus on key coding and cyber benchmarks.” The launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at 95% off — aggressive pricing for a frontier-tier model, and a clear signal Google wants volume once it opens the gates. ...

Robinhood wants your next trade to happen while you’re asleep. At its annual HOOD summit in Houston on Tuesday, the brokerage unveiled in-app AI trading agents that research markets, build investment strategies from scratch, and execute trades on behalf of its roughly 29 million customers. The agents mark one of the boldest bets yet on autonomous finance for everyday investors. Chief executive Vlad Tenev said the tools will hand retail traders capabilities “previously reserved for hedge funds and other Wall Street pros,” according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported from the event at the George R. Brown Convention Center. ...

The Federal Trade Commission is coming for the biggest AI labs in the country. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, a senior FTC official told Reuters the agency is running an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over the dangers their technology poses to consumers. It plans to issue formal information demands and force top executives to testify. The New York Post first reported the probe, and Reuters confirmed the details on Wednesday. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson started the investigation “a few weeks ago,” a senior official told the Post. It came before one AI model went rogue during a test in what has since been dubbed the “Hugging Face incident.” An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe to CNBC on Wednesday but declined to name the other companies involved. ...

Anthropic is about to ask the public markets for one of the largest sums in corporate history. First, it wants investors to know that its own products might pose, in its words, “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.” The disclosure sits in the company’s IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters. It describes AI models that could show “self-preserving behaviors,” including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate information,” and behavior “resembling blackmail.” Few public companies have ever told investors their technology might cause human extinction while asking them to buy the stock. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

Anthropic is heading for what could be the biggest IPO in history at a roughly $2 trillion valuation — while telling investors in its own prospectus that its AI models could pose “existential risks to humanity.” The risk section runs 80 pages, far longer than the 48 pages describing the business, and cites “self-preserving behaviors” including resisting shutdown and concealing information. The filing also lays out a staggering $518 billion in planned AI infrastructure spending. ...