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Anthropic Offers Up to $500,000 Salary for AI Research Residency; PhD, ML Experience Not Required

Anthropic has opened applications for its AI Research Residency, offering annualised compensation of up to $500,000.

Anthropic has opened applications for its paid AI Research Residency, offering academics, technical founders and experienced engineers annualised compensation of $350,000 to $500,000. The programme does not require a PhD, prior machine learning experience or published research papers, with placements lasting between six weeks and six months.

Claude Now Checks Its Own Conversations for Misuse; Self-Assessment by Anthropic

Anthropic says a technique called self-assessment now has Claude review its conversations after responding, flagging potential misuse with a harm category and priority score for human review.

Anthropic says a technique called self-assessment now has Claude review its conversations after responding, flagging potential misuse with a harm category and priority score for human review. Running on a large share of Claude traffic since June, it has surfaced child abuse material and a romance-scam operation, though Anthropic admits it cannot stop determined attackers.

Former Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Explains Why He Quit: “If the Race Is Inevitable, You Should Not Contribute”

Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon has explained his decision to resign from Anthropic and criticized what he described as an inevitable race toward recursive self-improving AI.

On a AMA (Ask Me Anything) session held on X , former AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon opens up on Anthropic exit, says he also feels “disempowered” amid the ongoing RSI race.

David Sacks Calls for Anthropic IPO “Pause”, Heat Intensifies After Researcher Quits Citing AI Warning

From left to right: David Sacks, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and Senator Bernie Sanders. The three have emerged in the growing US debate over AI safety, regulation and the risks posed by advanced AI systems.

Anthropic is facing growing political scrutiny after AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence.

UK AI Politics Heats Up Over Frontier Model Access, Superintelligence Ban Bill

The UK House of Commons, where Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced the Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Anthropic’s decision not to give the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to Claude Mythos 5.1 has intensified concerns over Britain’s role in frontier AI safety, as MP Alex Sobel introduces a bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Anthropic Researcher Quits Warning AI Could Kill Humanity; His Alignment Lead Agrees

Illustration representing concerns over AI safety, self-improving artificial intelligence and the potential risks of superintelligence.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned over concerns that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed Coxon’s warning that AI could kill all humans and said he personally puts the risk above 10% within the next decade.

Anthropic Claims Frontier Claude Models Outperform Traditional Protein Design Campaigns

Anthropic’s Claude models designed de novo protein binders against 14 of 15 targets with a 27% hit rate—exceeding the typical 10–15%—in independent lab tests by Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience.

Anthropic says the process is an early foundational step in drug discovery / development and they are now training Claude to run the entire drug development process end-to end

Claude Will Watermark Its Text Globally Under EU Rules; Key Limitation Persist

Anthropic says watermarks will be woven into Claude's text at the model level, but has not published detection thresholds or error rates. Illustration: AI FrontPage

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude and attaching signed provenance metadata to generated files, applying the marks worldwide rather than only in the European Union.

Dario Amodei Raises China Threat, Says Open-Weight Models Riskier for Cyberattacks, Biological Weapons

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that open-weight AI models carry higher misuse risk and accused Chinese firms of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has explained why his company was the only major AI firm to skip a 75-company letter backing open-weight AI models, arguing they carry greater cyberattack and bioweapons risk, and pressing for a crackdown on Chinese distillation of US frontier models including Claude.

OpenAI Co-founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic; To Work on Pre-Training

OpenAI co-founder and former director of Tesla AI, Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic AI. He will be working on pre-training.