None of this guarantees recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. It’s not yet clear that Claude is capable of research judgment—of choosing the right problems to work on. But if these trends continue, AI systems designing and building their own successors is plausible. This
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When AI builds itself anthropic.com
Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security whitehouse.gov
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Project Glasswing: An initial update \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Widening the conversation on frontier AI \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise anthropic.com
Making Claude a chemist anthropic.com
2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership anthropic.com
Paving the way for agents in biology anthropic.com
How we contain Claude across products anthropic.com
Claude’s Constitution anthropic.com
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This Executive Order is an important step in strengthening America’s leadership in AI. We look forward to collaborating with the White House to support its implementation.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." Read the full text of his remarks:
Patching these vulnerabilities will make us safer. But the software industry will need to adapt to the volume of vulnerabilities that models like Claude Mythos Preview will be able to find. We discuss this in our initial update on Project Glasswing:
We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation, committing $200 million in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to programs in global health, life sciences, education, agriculture, and economic mobility. Read more:
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- The $200M partnership splits contributions between Anthropic's API credits and technical staff versus the Gates Foundation's direct grant funding.
- Multilingual datasets produced under the deal will be released as public goods, available to researchers and developers beyond the partnership.
- Target geographies are low- and middle-income countries, with specific literacy program focus on sub-Saharan Africa and India.
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Over the past few months, we've been holding dialogues with scholars, philosophers, clergy, and ethicists on the questions AI raises—starting with how good character forms. Read more about how we’re widening the conversation on frontier AI:
These and other measures will allow us to track consequential shifts in the nature of work as they happen—we'll incorporate some of them into the Anthropic Economic Index going forward. Read the full report:
New Anthropic Science Blog: Making Claude a chemist. To manipulate a molecule, chemists first need to understand its structure. Their main tool is NMR spectroscopy. We found Opus 4.7 matches—and on some tasks beats—dedicated NMR software. Read more:
We've published a paper that explains our views on AI competition between the US and China. The US and democratic allies hold the lead in frontier AI today. Read more on what it’ll take to keep that lead:
New Science Blog: Why has AI advanced faster in coding than in biology? To agents, bio databases are like cities built before cars—maddening to drive in because they're designed for different traffic. How do we build infrastructure agents can use?
New on the Engineering Blog: The access and permissions we grant agents should evolve with their capabilities. In our own products, we set these parameters through sandboxing, which limits the scope of any potentially destructive actions. Read more:
Claude's Constitution is now an audiobook, read by two of its authors, Amanda Askell and Joe Carlsmith. It includes a Q&A on the writing process, the philosophies that shaped the document, and how it might change as models become more capable. Listen at http:// anthropic.com/c…
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