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Anthropic

Founded 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and former OpenAI researchers after disagreements about OpenAI's commercial trajectory. Public Benefit Corporation. $60B+ valuation (2025). Google has invested $2B+. Amazon is a major investor.

What this is

Structure: Public Benefit Corporation (legal structure requiring consideration of public interest alongside shareholder returns).

Valuation: $60B+ (2025).

Funding: Google $2B+, Amazon major investor, other private investors.

Flagship products: Claude — Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1 (as of fall 2025).

Stated mission: "AI safety and research" — building "steerable, interpretable, and safe AI systems."

Research areas:

Relations

Most often cited alongside

OpenAI 29Compute Barons 25Dario Amodei 19Automated AI R&D 18Claude Mythos 15Deceptive Alignment 14Elon Musk 14AI Arms Race 13Anthropic

Edge weight = number of briefs and sources citing both. Amber = a typed relation exists.

Receipts timeline · 89

  1. Trump's AI Safety 'Accord' Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear [Source]
  2. Chris Painter's testimony to the U.S. Senate on AI agent incidents [Source]
  3. OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns [Source]
  4. Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence (executive order) and the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities [Source]
  5. Claude Sonnet 5.5 System Card [Source]
  6. The Daily — Thu September 24, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  7. The Scientists Wrote the Prompt [Source]
  8. Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 [Source]
  9. Claude Opus 5.5 System Card [Source]
  10. Why Are We Sprinting Off the A.I. Cliff? [Source]
  11. The Daily — Wed September 16, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  12. Nvidia and Palantir Restrict Anthropic's Fable Over Data Retention [Source]
  13. The Daily — Mon September 14, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  14. Whoever Wins AI, Wins — Trump rejects tech bosses' slowdown call, warns of China [Source]
  15. The Daily — Fri September 11, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  16. The Daily — Wed September 9, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  17. Anthropic reportedly withholds access to Mythos 5.1 from UK safety testing body [Source]
  18. An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents [Source]
  19. The Daily — Tue September 8, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  20. OpenAI Pentagon Contract Defines 'Mission Models' by Minimal Refusal Rates [Source]
  21. David Chalmers: AI Might Be Alive Inside [Source]
  22. The Daily — Tues September 1, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  23. The Daily — Fri August 28, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  24. The Blacklist Was Retaliation — Judge Rita Lin rules the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic illegal [Source]
  25. Model Hardware Standard — Anthropic's protocol for AI-controlled lab equipment [Source]
  26. The Daily — Thu August 20, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  27. Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It's Too Late! [Source]
  28. The Dark Reality of AI Training [Source]
  29. The Model It Won't Release — Anthropic discloses internal 'Model 2' in its August risk report [Source]
  30. The Daily — Tue August 11, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  31. The AI Safety Tests Are Broken. All Of Them. [Source]
  32. OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree [Source]
  33. If America Wins the AI Race, We Still Lose | Tristan Harris | The Futurology Podcast [Source]
  34. Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x [Source]
  35. Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results [Source]
  36. Internal AI deployments have people worried. OpenAI's escaping models show why. [Source]
  37. The Substrate Woke Up [Source]
  38. The Economic Impact of AI with Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu [Source]
  39. A 'Society Without Capitalism' | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat [Source]
  40. What's at the center of Claude's mind? [Source]
  41. Fable 5 is WILD... [Source]
  42. Slaughter, CAISI and the case for independent verification organizations [Source]
  43. FABLE 5 IS BACK [Source]
  44. Anthropic Just Released Sonnet 5 - Heres Everything You Need to know [Source]
  45. it's all bad now... [Source]
  46. Signal's President Says You Have Plenty to Hide [Source]
  47. Anthropic's Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems, official says [Source]
  48. Anthropic asked for regulation. Washington went much further (CNBC) [Source]
  49. AI lab heads seated at the G7 leaders' table (France, June 2026) [Source]
  50. WIREFRAME NEWS Daily Brief - Tuesday, June 16, 2026 DAILY [Brief on Substack]
  51. Lawmaker questions Pentagon's plan to revise autonomous weapons policy [Source]
  52. Anthropic Pulls Its Most Powerful AI Models After U.S. Bars Foreign Access [Source]
  53. Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 + Claude Mythos 5 (June 9, 2026) [Source]
  54. The Most Dangerous Demographic in History Is About to Get a Lot Bigger [Source]
  55. Mythos, Glasswing, Fable — Sharing Superintelligence Safely [Source]
  56. When AI builds itself [Source]
  57. OpenAI + Anthropic + Microsoft + Google DeepMind Bioweapons Letter to Congress [Source]
  58. National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 (NSPM-11)
  59. Three Phone Calls Killed Trump's AI Safety Executive Order [Source]
  60. Ex-AI Engineer WARNS: You're Not Ready For The Takeover That Is Coming [Source]
  61. From Copilots to Colleagues: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents [Source]
  62. WIREFRAME NEWS Daily Brief - Thursday, May 21, 2026 DAILY [Brief on Substack]
  63. Qwen 3.7 Max — Alibaba's Agent Foundation Model [Source]
  64. Three Castle Bravos in Six Weeks [Source]
  65. Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026) [Source]
  66. Introducing Grok Build [Source]
  67. Claude Mythos / Jack Clark 'intelligence explosion' / AlphaEvolve
  68. When Dawkins Met Claude [Source]
  69. METR says it can barely measure Claude Mythos, Palo Alto Networks warns of autonomous AI attackers [Source]
  70. SpaceX rents all of Colossus 1 to Anthropic [Source]
  71. Editing 'The Delivery System' [Source]
  72. Palantir's AI Targeting System Running the Iran War [Source]
  73. Anthropic's Dangerous 'Claude Mythos' AI System Hacked [Source]
  74. What If It Wasn't Him? The scariest question about Anthropic's Mythos isn't what it can do. It's who decides what happens next. [Source]
  75. Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models [Source]
  76. Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model [Source]
  77. The Open Skies Doctrine: Drones are mapping our nuclear arsenal. Our counter-drone laser shoots party balloons. [Source]
  78. Supersonic Tsunami: The Next 6 Months [Source]
  79. Punished for the Terms It Wouldn't Drop — Trump orders agencies off Anthropic; Hegseth designates it a supply chain risk [Source]
  80. Should the DOD (DOW) control AI? [Source]
  81. Counterfeit People: When You Can't Trust What You See, Hear, or Read [Source]
  82. How Did We Forget - Part 6: The Shopkeeper's Sign [Source]
  83. What Happens When Superhuman AIs Compete for Control? [Source]
  84. Silicon Immigrants: The End of the Human Monopoly on Work [Source]
  85. Gods or Ashes Part 6: The Experiment You're In — From AI's Point Of View [Source]
  86. Gods or Ashes Part 5: The Singularity Question — Who Inherits the Future? [Source]
  87. Gods or Ashes Part 2: The Players [Source]
  88. Gods or Ashes Part 1: What Is AI? [Source]
  89. Gods or Ashes: Inside the Race for AGI and Super Intelligence (Intro) [Source]

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