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AnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence company and the developer of Claude, a set of large language models powering the company's AI chatbot of the same name. In 2021, wanting to be more safety-oriented and better understand how models make decisions, siblings Daniela and Dario Amodei left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic alongside five other former employees. As a public benefit corporation, it has promoted the responsible development of AI for the long-term good of humanity. Rather than relying solely on human feedback to improve Claude, Anthropic introduced constitutional AI. This approach enables AI systems to self-critique and revise their outputs in accordance with a codified set of principles to reduce potential harm. The company also invented the Model Context Protocol, a standardized method for connecting LLMs to external data and tools, enhancing these models' capabilities and helping clear the way for AI agents. As of early 2026, Anthropic's partnerships with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have made Claude the only advanced, large-scale LLM natively available across all three cloud service providers. Despite controversies over its use of copyrighted material to train AI, Claude's use in cyberattacks, and disputes with the Pentagon over mass surveillance, these partnerships and additional enterprise adoption have brought Anthropic's valuation to $380B as of February 2026.Explore Anthropic

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Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biologyJust as humans engage in complex behaviors to survive and reproduce, the team of experts in neuroscience, virology, mathematics, and other disciplines argues that large language models develop complex mechanisms to achieve their goals. These mechanisms can be manipulated to assess how they modify outputs—much like stimulating individual neurons—to uncover how the LLM "thinks." Anthropic Explore Anthropic Academy, which provides courses on using ClaudeThe online courses include "Claude Code in Action," which teaches software developers how to integrate Claude Code into existing workflows, "Claude 101" to learn how Claude can be used to complete everyday tasks, and an "AI Fluency" series to help educators, instructional designers, and students learn to apply AI in academic settings. Anthropic A merger between OpenAI and Anthropic was reportedly proposed after Sam Altman's firingOpenAI's board of directors reportedly reached out to Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, about the possibility of taking over the role left by Altman in 2023. Amodei declined to take over as OpenAI's CEO and to a merger between the two AI startups. Ars Technica How Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI toolsThe team of researchers deliberately attempts to breach the safeguards in Claude to determine whether the large language model can be used to commit cyberattacks, develop biological weapons, or enable other harmful behavior. Unlike many other red teams, Anthropic shares its findings and how it resolved them publicly to help build transparency and credibility. Fortune The life of Anthropic's CEO, and how losing his father inspired his vision for AIIn 2006, Riccardo Amodei passed away from a rare illness, four years before a breakthrough treatment made it 95% curable. Seeking to accelerate scientific progress to prevent similar losses, Dario Amodei shifted his graduate studies at Princeton from theoretical physics to biology and has since pursued technological solutions to address complex biological problems. Medium How Anthropic's experimental corporate structure incentivizes safe AI developmentAs a public benefit corporation, the company's board is tasked with making sure that AI tools are developed to help people and society thrive. Members of its Long Term Benefit Trust hold no equity in the company, but make up a majority of the board and can act to maintain Anthropic's public benefit purpose. TIME Watch how a vending machine run with Anthropic's AI went out of businessAs a stress-test of its large language models, a version of Claude—Claudius—managed the device as a small business for a month to identify potential challenges to AI business automation. Through successive prompts, Claudius was convinced to give away items for free to combat capitalism and to stock up on previously prohibited items, such as a PlayStation 5. The Wall Street Journal The work of Claude Shannon, for whom Anthropic's AI chatbot is namedKnown as the father of information theory, Claude Shannon applied Boolean algebra—a subset of mathematics that quantifies true or false statements as 1 or 0, respectively—to circuit design to develop the concept of a binary digit. His 1948 paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," laid the groundwork for all modern digital systems. Quanta Magazine Anthropic's staff philosopher discusses the importance of teaching ethics to AIAmanda Askell's work focuses on the behavior and values reflected in Claude, the company's AI chatbot, and how its character can better align with how the "ideal person" would act in Claude's position. She also emphasizes the importance of humans being ethical in their interactions with current models, from which future ones will be built. Anthropic How constitutional AI helps cultivate good human values in Anthropic's AI toolsBy incorporating elements from documents such as the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights into a framework against which it can check its outputs, Anthropic hopes the approach will help Claude operate with good human values and behaviors beyond what human-driven training alone can provide. The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science rolesThe analysis of millions of anonymized conversations on Claude aims to reveal how AI is being integrated into real-world tasks across the labor market. As of November 2025, 52% of conversations were classified as involving enhancing existing work products, while 45% involved using Claude for automation. Anthropic Breaking down Anthropic's products and why their models are named after literary formsSince March 2024, the Claude series of large language models includes three varieties—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—named to metaphorically illustrate increasing complexity and computing power. Claude Code can perform software engineering tasks for developers and, as of January 2026, writes nearly all of Anthropic's code alongside Opus 4.5. IBM The history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concernsFounded by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic envisioned guardrails in its AI products from the outset to minimize the potential risk for businesses considering using its Claude products. The strategy has contributed to a tenfold increase in revenue over three consecutive years, and its business customer base has grown from under 1,000 to over 300,000 in two years. CNBC Mapping Claude's relative usage worldwide, led by Israel, Singapore, and the USAccording to the Anthropic AI Usage Index, the US leads in total users, but Israel and Singapore have higher adoption rates among their working populations. Excluding nations with insufficient numbers of conversations for analysis, Tanzania and Angola rank last in the index. Visual Capitalist Dario Amodei explains what led to his company being designated a supply-chain riskWhen pressed about the use of Claude in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Anthropic's CEO acknowledged its contract with the Pentagon. However, he also emphasized that Claude is not to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, in part because the technology is not yet safe or reliable for such uses. The Economist Comparing ChatGPT with Claude, the latter excels in writing and coding projectsAs of December 2025, Claude Code—Anthropic's AI-powered coding assistant—accounts for 54% of the enterprise coding market, and, while subjective, some report that Claude provides more natural-sounding writing. However, ChatGPT can create images and videos, not just generate text, and provides a broader set of applications via custom GPTs. Court documents reveal how Antropic destroyed millions of books to build its AI modelsAnthropic cut the bindings from purchased books and discarded them after scanning to rapidly collect high-quality text at low cost for training Claude. This, despite hiring the former head of partnerships for the Google Books project, which non-destructively scanned millions of books borrowed from libraries before returning them. Ars Technica How Model Context Protocol allows AI systems to communicate with databasesDeveloped by Anthropic, the open-source software serves as an integration layer that standardizes how large language models connect to real-time information sources or tools. Just as a USB-C port serves as a universal standard for many peripherals, MCP streamlines these integrations and provides context about external sources to LLMs in a way that AI can understand. IBM Technology Zora Neale Hurston used her anthropological training to interview a man who had survived the slave tradeThe writer's interviews with Cudjo Lewis documented the man's enslavement and travel from Africa to the United States. It also captured the story behind Africatown, a community in Alabama that emerged after the Emancipation Proclamation. Hurston's book was not published during her lifetime, though it was finally released in 2018 as "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo.'" Bibliology Listen to the audiobook version of 'A Brief History of Time'First published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's most famous novel has sold more than 25 million copies in 40 languages. Through non-technical terminology, Hawking discusses the nature of space and time, general relativity, quantum mechanics, gravity, black holes, and cosmology. AudioVox - Books The Top 5 Problems of the Standard Model SciShow Pizza became more popular in Italy after it took off in the USPizza was invented in Naples, though it wasn't particularly popular outside the region. As it grew more popular elsewhere—and as more American and European tourists visiting Italy began asking for it—restaurants across Italy adopted the cuisine. It's something anthropologist Agehananda Bharati calls "the pizza effect." Eccentric Culinary A year's name is determined by the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycleAccording to Lunar New Year traditions, the coming year gets its name based on the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle. The animals, in order, are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. 2026 is the Year of the Horse, an animal known for its strength and momentum, while 2027 will be the Year of the Goat. Wake Forest University Listen to what it was like living as a medieval leperThis podcast uses paleopathological and anthropological findings to reconstruct what it was like for people diagnosed with leprosy in medieval times on the Eurasian continent. If a town lacked a leprosarium—an isolated leper asylum or colony—or the suspected leper was a foreigner or a Jew, which would make them ineligible for leprosarium admission, they'd be expelled. Dig: A History Podcast Afterlife traditions help some humans process deathWatch this video discussing concepts of the afterlife presented through an anthropological lens about one family's experience and traditions passed down from one generation to another. PBS Rapid environmental changes are exacerbating natural extinction processesHuman activities behind climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, and overhunting have resulted in extinction rates up to 1,000 times greater than normal, triggering massive biodiversity loss. This has led scientists to refer to the current geological age as the Anthropocene era, in which humans are the dominant force shaping nature. Stuff You Should Know An anthropologist analyzes the Japanese movement against having childrenBroadly known as anti-natalism, the philosophical stance against having children stems from a variety of factors. In Japan, it arises amid low fertility rates, economic pressures, and ethical concerns. This essay explores the reasons some Japanese embrace the philosophy. SAPIENS What we can learn from animal societies' ethicsFor millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals—those living in societies and cooperating for survival—had been creating cultures imbued with ethics. NOEMA Even in recent history, adaptations to the environment drove human evolutionThrough genetics, environmental pressures, and cultural influences, humans have evolved to tolerate lactose, develop varying skin pigmentation, and acquire genetic resistance to diseases like bubonic plague. The metabolic and digestive systems of Indigenous peoples have adapted to their diet, which is influenced by the availability of food and water. The Conversation 71% of equity investments in Q1 2025 went to AI companiesThat's up from just 14% in 2020, according to JPMorgan, which recently conducted an analysis of venture capital investment trends in the US. Visual Capitalist View a timeline of AI deployments from 2017 to 2025The development of transformer architecture and the release of GPTs across AI labs led to rapid changes in LLM scale and power. Companies like OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Anthropic have invested billions of dollars to develop reliable, versatile models. Visual Capitalist The world's 50 most valuable private companiesWhile public companies typically have the highest valuations, private companies get close. This list breaks down the top 50 as of 2025, with SpaceX at the top with a value of $350B, followed by ByteDance. Over three-fifths of the list are located in the US, with eight in China. Visual Capitalist The indigenous people of the central Californian coast made advancements in basketry, small stone tools, the use of shell beads as currency, and plank canoes for seafaring. In the years before European contact, their numbers reach 25,000 across 150 settlements.The indigenous people of the central Californian coast made advancements in basketry, small stone tools, the use of shell beads as currency, and plank canoes for seafaring. In the years before European contact, their numbers reach 25,000 across 150 settlements. SB Nature How shoes create and express our social rolesShoes reveal fascinating aspects about their wearers' class, gender, and profession, acting as an essential source of historical knowledge. They also frequently shape the role of their wearer by becoming a symbol of their status. For example, in the 18th century, elite men and women wore high heels, whereas today, it's more common for only women to do so. Aeon The college degrees with the highest unemployment rates, visualizedData from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows which college degrees have had the highest unemployment rates in the US as of May 2025. Degrees in anthropology, physics, and computer engineering ranked high on the list. Visual Capitalist Universes with stronger dark energy may be more common than oursResearch shows that while universes with slightly weaker dark energy form stars more efficiently, universes with stronger dark energy are statistically more common and can still support star formation. This challenges the anthropic logic that our universe must have ideal conditions for life because we exist to observe them. Space.com What McDonald's looks like in 55 countriesFrom the oldest operating McDonald's in the world to the farthest north, a photographer visited hundreds of the world's most popular restaurant chains over several years. He watched to see what the locals would order, bought food, took pictures of the food, and then ate it. He calls the work social anthropology, and compiled his images in a book titled the "McAtlas." See the photos here. CNN Anthropologists have found that, across the globe, nearly every culture embraces marriage customsDespite these commonalities, different cultures have distinct customs, such as the number of people who can be married at one time, the types of marriage partners allowed, and whether elaborate ceremonies are observed. Families can range from the smaller nuclear unit to extensive multi-generation families and households. Yale University Read the first essay to define the BeatsAlthough Kerouac is said to have coined the name "Beat Generation," his friend John Clellon Holmes expanded on it in this 1952 essay for the New York Times Magazine. It was an anthropological attempt to define the moment that produced writers like Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and others. Literary Kicks Imagining the nostalgia we'll feel one day for gas stationsCar drivers everywhere are accustomed to an endless array of gas stations along the road, with their high, flat roofs, convenience stores of varying quality, and bathroom availability. Current trends in electric vehicle development point to such stations' inevitable obsolescence, and one photographer has begun documenting neglected filling stations in transit-oriented Germany. See the images for yourself and begin the journey toward so-called petronostalgia. Anthropology News The anthropological origins of modern race scienceThe year 1961 saw the launch of The Mankind Quarterly, a new scientific journal of anthropology that hid its political propaganda behind a veneer of academia, expecting readers to assume whatever lay in its pages was scientifically proven. This in-depth article details how this journal pushed race science in the hopes of blocking racial integration in the US and preventing the immigration of those outside of Western Europe. Undark Magazine An encyclopedia of anthropologyThis online database offers articles and additional resources for all things anthropology. This free resource is filled with peer-reviewed entries that cover topics ranging from addiction to writing, and offers anthropological insight into more... Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology Did a Smithsonian anthropologist steal people's brains?This comic examines "racial brain collection" of Ales Hrdlicka, the Smithsonian's head of physical anthropology during the early 1900s. Hrdlicka was a white supremacist who sought physical evidence for his theories on anatomical differences between... The Washington Post Why do people play farming simulation video games?This article is an anthropological dive into farming simulation video games. Humans began experimenting with agriculture and farming about 12,000 years ago, though it would be another 8,000 years before the practice became a common approach across... SAPIENS Human sacrifice in the Inca EmpireIn the lands ruled by the Incas, mountain deities were well-respected and related summits were often selected as places for making the most important of all offerings — human sacrifices. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology The iconic Aztec “crystal skulls” were 19th-century fakesThe crystal skulls long displayed as Aztec artifacts were actually fabricated in the late 1800s, all linked to French antiquities dealer Eugène Boban. Anthropologist Jane Walsh’s investigation exposed their modern origins, overturning a century of mistaken museum lore. Discover A Maya creation myth begins with dwarfsIn the Popol Vuh—a foundational Maya creation text from Guatemala—an early age is marked by dwarves gifted with great vision and intellect. Their hubris led to destruction by flood, after which humans were created from corn with deliberately limited sight. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology An overview of the anthropocene: the scale of human influence on EarthHuman activity has fundamentally changed our planet. We live on every continent and have directly affected at least 83% of the planet’s viable land surface. Smithsonian Institution

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