Business & Tech Mill Valley Homeowner Offers 13-Acre Estate In Exchange For Anthropic Stock A Mill Valley property owner and investment banker hoping to get into the AI market recently took to LinkedIn with the hopes of handing over his sprawling estate to an interested Anthropic shareholder in exchange for stock in the company.
Business & Tech Writer Discovers Claude Opus 4.7 Can Identify Her From 125 Words of Unpublished Work Anonymity for published writers and users with a heavy online presence is quickly becoming a thing of the past, as writer Kelsey Piper warns that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 managed to identify her based on a brief passage of unpublished work — while logged out and using incognito mode.
Business & Tech Anthropic's New Model, Mythos, Is So Dangerous It Isn't Being Released to the Public Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Forty-Foot Tree Lands on Two Teslas on Highway 101 in Sunnyvale Anthropic released a list of top 10 jobs with the most tasks that could be completed using AI; the statue of the 45-foot woman on Market Street will be here through October; and fortunately no one was seriously injured when a large tree landed on highway 101 in Sunnyvale Thursday.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Admits Friday Pentagon Deal Was Rushed, Adds More Safeguards to Contract Continuing the tradition of tech CEOs appearing to be transparent performing their mea culpas on social media, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Xitter Monday to say a few things about that rushed Friday deal with the Pentagon, following the collapse of a deal with Anthropic.
Business & Tech Trump Administration Still Used Anthropic's Claude In Iran Strikes, Hours After Trump Banned Anthropic Despite Trump calling SF’s Anthropic a “Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about” and banning government use of their AI tool Claude, the administration still had to use Claude in its Iran attacks.
SF News OpenAI Makes Deal With Pentagon, Including Safeguards Anthropic Requested Before Ban Just a couple hours after Trump announced the federal government was cutting ties with Anthropic for refusing to grant the Pentagon full access to its tools Friday, Sam Altman announced OpenAI received the contract instead, which includes the safeguards Anthropic was denied.
SF News Saturday Links: Toddler Fatally Struck, Adult Injured, While Crossing Street in Mission Bay The US and Israel launched a targeted strike against Iran Saturday, who said it will retaliate; the names were released of the sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot East Bay musician Anthony Ant earlier this month; and a two-year-old was killed while crossing the street in SF’s Mission Bay Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Randa’s Market Adopts Third Cat, ‘Shadow,’ Following the Death of KitKat Trump was not happy about Anthropic’s refusal to allow the Pentagon access to its technology; Henrietta Lacks’ estate won a settlement from Swiss drugmaker Novartis for profiting off her cells for decades without their knowledge; and Randa’s Market in the Mission has a new cat named ‘Shadow.’
Business & Tech Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.
Business & Tech Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
Business & Tech AI Insiders Are Sounding Alarms, and the Guy Who Wrote That Viral Post Says He's Not Being Alarmist Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
Business & Tech Forget the 'Crypto Bowl,' This Super Bowl Will Be Chock Full of AI Ads — Here Are Five of Them Expect all the big players in AI to be spending lavishly on ads during the Super Bowl this year, including rivals OpenAI and Anthropic — with the latter taking not one but two swings at its bigger competitor.
Business & Tech Anthropic Signs Lease For Entire 27-Story Downtown Tower Anthropic, the growing AI concern founded by two siblings and former OpenAI execs, had inked a deal for an entire office building at Howard and Fremont streets, marking one of the largest office deals in the city since 2019.
SF News Saturday Links: Father Dies, 5-Year-Old Missing After Being Swept Away by Large Waves in Big Sur Researchers are skeptical that Anthropic’s recent cyberattack was 90% autonomous; a San Jose teacher was mistakenly flagged as a convict in a background check; and a father has died and his 5-year-old daughter is missing after being swept away in Big Sur.
Business & Tech Anthropic Says Its AI Chatbot Was Used By Chinese Hackers for Large-Scale Cyber Attack In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic AI to Pay Authors, Publishers $1.5 Billion in Copyright Settlement Oakland-born figure skater Alysa Liu won’t be performing to the d4vd song she’d chosen for the Milan Olympics; Sinclair and Nexstar will be airing Jimmy Kimmel at their ABC affiliate stations Friday; and Anthropic has settled a lawsuit with authors and publishers alleging copyright infringement.
Business & Tech Federal Judge In SF Rules That AI Company Anthropic Did Not Violate Copyright Law In Training Its Chatbot A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted material to train its AI chatbot Claude. The company will have to go to trial, however, over its use of pirated copies of books.
Business & Tech SF-Based AI Company Anthropic Sued by Music Publishers for Using Pop Stars’ Copyrighted Work Universal Music and a ton of other music publishers have filed a lawsuit against the up-and-coming SF AI company Anthropic, alleging that its chatbot is spitting out copyrighted lyrics to their top artists’ work.
