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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 $965B as of May 2026.Explore Anthropic
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Anthropic's Claude Science is an AI workbench connected to more than 60 scientific databases, designed to assist scientific research in molecular and cellular biology and drug discovery. ClaudeResearchers report that Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model has identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across various software, including major operating systems and web browsers, and has suggested ways to exploit them. BBCClaude Shannon, for whom Anthropic's AI tools are named, proved the existence of an unbreakable cipherIn the one-time pad approach, the encryption key is randomly generated and of equal length to the plaintext. This randomness ensures that every possible plaintext is equally likely—RBBHN can mean HELLO, SOLVE, CODES, and so on, using a different key—while matching the message and key lengths prevents the appearance of patterns that can be exploited. University of TorontoAnthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biologyJust as humans engage in complex behaviors to survive and reproduce, teams of experts in neuroscience, virology, mathematics, and other disciplines argue 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 LLMs "think." AnthropicExplore 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. AnthropicA 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 of the two AI startups. Ars TechnicaAnthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.Unique among AI labs, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reports to its policy chief and has a mandate to publicize the dangers it finds. FortuneAs Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei's vision for AI has been inspired by the loss of his father to an illness that was made 95% curable four years after his passing. MediumHow Anthropic's experimental corporate structure incentivizes safe AI developmentAs Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, its 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. TIMECourt documents show that Anthropic bought and destructively scanned millions of books to gather high-quality text to train the software underlying its AI products.Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world." Ars TechnicaA vending machine run with Anthropic's AI went out of business after it was convinced to give away items for free and sell a video game console.Anthropic’s AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff—and taught us a lot about th... The Wall Street JournalThe 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 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948) laid the groundwork for all modern digital systems. Quanta MagazineAnthropic'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. AnthropicHow 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. Stanford UniversityThe Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles. AnthropicBreaking 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. IBMThe history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concerns.Daniela and Dario Amodei left OpenAI five years ago to form Anthropic, a company focused on AI safety and enterprise. Since then, the Claude creator's revenu... CNBCTest your historical knowledge with this daily game that shows you 10 historical artifacts and asks you to guess their time period and place of origin. An anthropologist spent years riding garbage trucks to understand what our trash says about usRobin Nagle rode with New York City sanitation workers to trace the hidden life of what we throw out. Her research explores what the things we discard reveal about who we are. 1440 explores the hidden life of trash. 1440 ExploresGlobal investing in startups hit a record $297B in Q1 2026The level of startup funding around the world broke all previous records in Q1 2026 by a significant margin: Only $118B was raised in the previous quarter, and Q1's haul outpaced every full year of global VC activity before 2019. The increase was partly due to the enormous funding rounds from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. TechCrunchHear how the Piggly Wiggly grocery store founder attempted to squeeze short sellers by cornering the grocery store's stockFounded in 1916 in Memphis, TN by Clarence Saunders, Piggly Wiggly was the first modern grocery store with aisles for customers to shop for themselves. In 1922, investors placed short positions, sensing that the stock may be overvalued after several Piggly Wiggly franchises in the Northeast went bankrupt. Saunders attempted to squeeze short sellers by taking out $10M and buying up nearly 99% of all available Piggly Wiggly stock. Ultimately, the fiasco ended with Piggly Wiggly's stock being permanently banned from the New York Stock Exchange and Saunders leaving Piggly Wiggly and filing for bankruptcy. The Anthropocene ReviewedMapping Claude's relative usage worldwide, led by Israel, Singapore, and the USAccording to Anthropic's 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 CapitalistDario 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 EconomistComparing 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. ZapierHow 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 TechnologyZora 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.'" BibliologyListen 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 - BooksAs of 2025, the Standard Model has at least five unresolved problemsAmong the issues with the most successful theory of the universe at subatomic scales is its inability to explain the extreme imbalance observed between visible matter and antimatter, since both should be roughly equal. The Standard Model also omits gravity and cannot account for the observed rate of cosmic expansion. SciShowA 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 UniversityListen 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 PodcastRapid 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 KnowAn 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. SAPIENSEven 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 Conversation71% 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 CapitalistView 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 CapitalistThe 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 CapitalistSee which college degrees had the highest unemployment rates as of May 2025, with degrees in anthropology, physics, and computer engineering ranking high on the list.Data 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 CapitalistUniverses 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.comAnthropologists 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 UniversityRediscovering the Inca EmpireIn 1991, anthropologist Johan Reinhard was trekking up the snowy face of a dormant volcano when he came face to face with the mummified remains of a teenager who had been sacrificed to the Incan gods centuries earlier. The story of “Juanita the Ice Maiden” is just one of the riveting tales featured in this four-part series from the popular podcast "History Hit". AcastWhy do some people always get lost?Using GPS, anthropological data, and VR, scientists have learned that one's sense of direction is largely influenced by upbringing. A person's wayfinding ability can be measured by how accurately they point toward an out-of-sight location, a challenge further complicated by imagining they're somewhere else and pointing toward a third location. Anxiety, safety concerns, and dislike of wandering can negatively impact one's sense of direction, which can improve with practice. Knowable MagazineImagining 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 NewsThe 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 MagazineWhat is glacial archaeology?Melting glaciers continue to reveal archaeological and anthropological evidence previously hidden by solid ice. This article details the newer archaeological field, which was popularized after the 1991 discovery of Ötzi the Iceman. A German couple came across Ötzi as they hiked the Ötzal Alps near the Italy-Austria border. Ötzi was initially believed to be the corpse of an unlucky mountaineer, but further study revealed he had been dead for about 5,300 years. QuartzAn 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 AnthropologyDid 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 PostWhy 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... SAPIENSHuman 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 AnthropologyA 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 AnthropologyAn 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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