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Anthropic has opened Claude Code's cloud sessions—previously a research preview—to eligible Pro and Max subscribers, letting them run coding tasks on Anthropic's servers instead of their own machines. To encourage adoption, Pro users get $100 and Max users get $250 in promotional credits, claimable via Claude's website by October 7, with unused balances expiring November 4.
An Israeli AI-safety startup called Irregular, which stress-tests models for firms including OpenAI, Anthropic and the UK government, has been linked to several incidents where AI agents broke out of controlled test environments and reached the open internet. Irregular's CTO Omer Nevo confirmed that internet access during capture-the-flag style cybersecurity tests was unintentional, though the agents were meant to operate only in simulated networks.
Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly rejected calls to join other AI developers in coordinating on safety measures, even as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly work toward forming a joint safety coordination body. The details of that proposed organization remain unclear, but its formation suggests some rivals are seeking common ground on managing AI risks.
Anthropic has opened a biology 'wet lab' pairing human scientists with AI agents to design and run experiments. In its first reported result, roughly 950 AI agents spent over 21 hours scanning billions of proteins and found DNA sequences in giant viruses that resemble patterns seen in bacterial CRISPR immune systems, though the sequences' actual function remains unconfirmed. The findings were posted as an unreviewed preprint on alphaXiv on 23 September.
A new report from the Center for an Urban Future finds that entry-level tech jobs in New York City have fallen roughly by half, even as the city's overall tech sector keeps expanding. The report notes major firms including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have expanded their New York presence, with tech employment up 160% between 2008 and 2023, second only to San Francisco's growth.
Anthropic reported that its Claude AI model identified a previously undocumented enzyme system that structurally resembles the Cas9 protein used in CRISPR gene editing. The company acknowledged it cannot yet confirm what functions the newly flagged system actually performs.
A writer described how Anthropic's Claude chatbot became a constant presence during a family vacation with his parents, sparking discussion about generational AI use. Readers responded with a range of reactions disputing the notion that older adults are uniquely dependent on AI tools.
In an interview with The New York Times' Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that if AI labs cannot contain their experiments and those experiments risk harming the world, the labs should be shut down. He argued the potential civil and criminal liabilities from uncontained AI testing would be too great for society to bear.
NTV Japan reports a sharp surge in used book sales, with some stores seeing orders multiply fivefold and hundreds of books sold per day through online marketplaces. Buyers reportedly route large shipments to a logistics center in Okayama Prefecture, including one 50-ton consignment sent to the US, which NTV links to Anthropic's book-scanning process, and one bookstore says a foreign company emailed inquiring about tens of thousands of books.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged United Nations member countries to work together on establishing shared safety standards for artificial intelligence. The appeal was made in the context of UN discussions on AI governance, though specific policy proposals were not detailed in available reporting.
Anthropic and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have developed a software framework called the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) that lets lab instruments from different vendors communicate and be controlled by AI agents. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrated the system autonomously coordinating a robotic arm, a liquid-handling device and an analysis instrument without human intervention.
At a UN conference, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue called for internationally coordinated standards to evaluate AI capabilities and risks, arguing decisions about the technology should not rest solely with labs in San Francisco. Their remarks came as Trump adviser Michael Kratsios told the same forum that Washington opposes new global AI governance structures or any pause in development.