Forward-deployed engineers are all the rage in AI, and Anthropic is going to other companies to train up top talent. The AI company announced a $100 million investment into an FDE training initiative earlier this month. It’s a quasi-fellowship that engineers from other firms have already begun applying for. They’ll attend four-day on-site intensives and
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as
Anthropic posted — and then deleted — a job listing for a salesperson tasked with selling to Meta, its AI rival and one of its largest customers. The listing, titled “Mega Account Executive, Meta,” appeared on Anthropic’s job board at a delicate moment for the companies’ relationship. Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars
Anthropic’s move to watermark Claude-generated text is driving some users away from its AI assistant. The AI lab said this week that some versions of Claude will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into their text output. It will travel with the content when it is copied and pasted and may survive some editing, Anthropic said,
