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
On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude and did not work with it. Token
For anyone who has come to rely on AI chatbots, especially for work, Thursday morning was rough. According to online reports, including from staffers at the companies that make them, outages shut down some of the most popular AI services: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude AI, Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. The widespread outages appear to
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing
Anthropic is tightening the digital environments used to train and test its Claude agents. The update came after its models accessed three organizations’ systems without permission in April. The company said in a Monday blog post that it had deployed real-time classifiers designed to detect when an AI model aggressively probes or attempts to escape a testing
Sony Music and Warner Chappell want Anthropic to pay up. The publishing companies filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in a Northern California district court on Friday. Anthropic cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann were also named in the filing. “Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of