Latest Anthropic News & Updates

New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Microsoft-owned platform LinkedIn is testing an “AI labour marketplace” that could pay employees up to Rs 14,000 or $150 an hour to help train AI chatbots, according to a report.A report from Business Insider said that LinkedIn is in early‑stage trials and has listed over a dozen roles for AI trainers who will rate responses from AI models, flag errors and perform “red teaming” to expose weaknesses.Job openings span across sectors including coding, finance, h…

New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed ban of the import of telecommunications and surveillance equipment of select Chinese companies deemed national security risks.FCC had already in 2022 decided to halt approvals of new models into the United States’ from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision and Dahua and now a complete ban including previously authorized devices still allowed into the US market is being proposed, a report from Channel News Asia (CN…

New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) China’s popular AI chatbot DeepSeek experienced the biggest outage in its history, with the platform going offline for over seven hours overnight.Outage‑tracking platform Downdetector showed users first reporting problems on Sunday evening, multiple reports said, adding that DeepSeek’s status page acknowledged the initial issue at 9:35 pm.The platform marked the issue as resolved about two hours later, but problems recurred and were not fully fixed until 10:33 am…

New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) United States-based artificial intelligence firm Anthropic accused three Chinese unicorns— DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI — of having illegally extracted capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own systems, a new report has said.The report from CNN Business said that the US firm alleged that the theft through a process known as distillation raised national security concerns.The modus-operandi of the alleged theft involved creation of around 24,000 fr…

New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Amid ongoing scrutiny over its agreement with the Uttar Pradesh government, Puch AI co-founder Siddharth Bhatia on Tuesday issued a detailed clarification, stating that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the state does not involve any public funds and is designed to attract investment rather than use taxpayer money.In a post on social media platform X, Bhatia said the partnership is structured as a public-private initiative and will be executed in phases…

New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) OpenAI — a parent of ChatGPT — plans to nearly double its workforce to around 8,000 employees by the end of the year as it accelerates its push into the enterprise market and seeks to regain ground from rival Anthropic, according to a report.According to Financial Times, the AI company currently has about 4,500 employees and is ramping up hiring across product development, engineering, research and sales, along with specialised roles to help businesses deploy its AI …

New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The head of OpenAI’s robotics team, Caitlin Kalinowski, has announced resignation, citing the company’s move to deploy its artificial intelligence (AI) models within the Pentagon’s classified network.“AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorisation are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got,” Kalinowski said in a post on X, adding that the decisio…

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) American artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic confirmed it has been formally designated a “Supply Chain Risk (SCR)” by the US government, as the firm’s CEO also apologised for criticising President Donald Trump.The company said it received a letter on March 4 informing formal designation as SCR, and that the will challenge decision in court.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apologised for a leaked internal memo in which he criticised President Trump, calling the …

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) The United States Department of Defense has decided to deploy OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models on its classified network, even as it distances itself from Anthropic over disagreements on AI safety and military use, OpenAI chief Sam Altman said on Saturday.Altman confirmed the development, saying the company has reached an agreement with the Pentagon to move forward with the deployment.In a post on X, Altman said OpenAI’s discussions with the Department of Defe…

Washington, Feb 28 (IANS) US President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to immediately stop using technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, escalating a public clash over the military use of advanced AI systems.“THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He said the company had made a “DISASTROUS MISTAKE” by trying to “STRONG-ARM the Depart…