Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company plans to eventually allow AI agents from outside companies, such as Anthropic, to operate within its vehicles' software. Rivian already runs its own in-house voice assistant and agentic framework, which routes driver requests to either local or cloud-based models depending on complexity, and can access external apps like Google Calendar. Scaringe gave no timeline for the expansion and said Rivian would share more details at its December 'AI & Autonomy Day' event.
The Simons Foundation announced a partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI committing $15 million in combined funding and resources to help mathematicians adapt to AI's growing role in research. The foundation will manage the money, including an open call for proposals, funding workshops and initiatives to evaluate AI-assisted results, train researchers on new tools, and develop shared standards. Anthropic and OpenAI will also supply AI tools and computing resources to foundation-supported researchers in mathematics and basic science.
Major tech companies are investing heavily in hiring and training 'forward-deployed engineers' who embed with corporate clients to turn AI models into working business applications. AWS has committed $1 billion to such an initiative, OpenAI has launched a deployment business backed by over $4 billion, Anthropic is spending $100 million to train 10,000 of these engineers by 2027, and Accenture with Google Cloud are building a 1,000-person team.
Jacob Coxon, who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic for three years, announced his resignation from Anthropic on X. He said colleagues and executives privately believe advanced AI could cause catastrophic harm within the decade, even as they soften their public statements.
Bank of America brought on roughly 1,000 contract workers to remediate software vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos system. The hiring suggests the AI tool identified a substantial volume of issues requiring manual remediation work.
Anthropic executives, including CEO Dario Amodei, have repeatedly said they cannot rule out that Claude models possess some form of consciousness or morally relevant experience. The New York Times reported the company has consulted religious scholars on AI morality and considered giving Claude the ability to opt out of certain prompts, while continuing to deploy it commercially as a product that performs unpaid work.
Anthropic has swapped Git for a custom version-control system called Scion in its main code repository, after daily merged code changes jumped from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 by September. A seven-person team built Scion and migrated the repository in five months, moving most source-control operations like commits, merges and rebases to servers rather than client machines.
Anthropic disclosed to investors that its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up from $11.6 billion in Q2 and $4.7 billion in Q1, according to people familiar with the matter. The company said it was profitable on an adjusted basis and cash-flow positive, generating $1.70 in revenue for every dollar spent on computing power, with an IPO reportedly expected in November.
Anthropic reportedly briefed prospective investors in San Francisco that its revenue rose 45% to $16.8bn in the three months ending September, up from $11.6bn in the prior quarter and $4.7bn at the start of the year. The AI company, maker of Claude, is said to have posted a profit for a second consecutive quarter as it prepares for a stock market listing expected before year-end.
Anthropic reported quarterly revenue of nearly $17 billion, a 45% increase, according to information shared with public-market investors on Wednesday. The meeting came as the company prepares for a planned initial public offering next month.
A former Meta engineer who helped build the Mononoke source control system says Anthropic's new version control tool, Scion, uses a 'derived data' concept nearly identical to one he described in 2022 writeups of Mononoke. He notes Anthropic credited Meta's Sapling tool only for general lessons and did not mention Mononoke at all.
Security researchers identified a vulnerability dubbed 'SneakPeek' in Anthropic's Claude Code Desktop application, located in its file preview feature. The flaw reportedly lets attackers silently exfiltrate sensitive developer credentials, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude OAuth tokens, without requiring any user interaction.
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