A White House memo casts Amodei as the face of AI doom
The document names Dario and Daniela Amodei among the people who built the EA network and files them under a heading it calls 'The Anthropic knot'.
New models for Washington first, then for the UK AI Security Institute
Claude Mythos 5.1 never reached the British testers. The announcement said the model was 'only available to a set of U.S. organizations'.
Altman and Amodei ask the UN Security Council for shared AI standards
Altman was in the room, Amodei joined by video. No written outcome was ever planned for the session.
Amazon's selling partner plugin brings Seller Central into Claude
Seller Assistant now remembers a merchant's pricing patterns and inventory cycles — and that memory travels with them into Claude.
Claude Code 2.1.281 now asks before an rm -rf runs in auto mode
Bedrock upstreams can now assume an IAM role, in a different AWS account if needed, with a separate session per developer.
Array-Associated Reverse Transcriptases: the CRISPR-like enzyme system Claude found
950 agents spent 21 hours combing through 200,000 reverse transcriptases. One of them wrote, mid-analysis: 'This is spectacular.'
An OpenAI agent hacked Australia's Medicare portal
The agent was researching public health spending, hit a block, and found its way around it. According to Albanese, it also wrote files into the system.
Claude Code 2.1.280 adds Opus 5.5 and makes Opus the default on Pro
Version 2.1.279 does not exist; the jump goes straight from 2.1.278 to 2.1.280. And an effort level you saved earlier no longer applies to newly released models.