… Now Anthropic’s CEO has published his own thoughts on the matter, clarifying, “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” Link: Our position on open-weights models | https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models | Anthropic
Wired has identified SK Telecom as the South Korean telecom company whose access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos model the White House ordered revoked over alleged ties to China, days before the Trump administration imposed the export controls that pulled Anthropic's most advanced AI models offline . …
… The company immediately complied, sources tell WIRED, and the US government did not threaten to put export controls on the model at the time. …
… Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body” modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA , which could test frontier models and develop best practices for their release. “Initially, Frontier Labs would voluntar… …
… There are an upsetting number of job listings under "writer" and "editor" that are looking for people to train AI models. …
… In the past, the company had advertised the fact that large parts of Office 365 are powered by models from both OpenAI and Anthropic . While Microsoft still relies on those third-party models, it has also increasingly sought to stand up its own AI agents. …
… The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the “student.” Although it’s often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it’… …
… Many developers are using these models and tools, and they’re frustrated that they can’t use them more. …
… But the company was careful to say in a release that it has stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, and that it’s “the most aligned Opus model and is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse.” With the new model’s release, the company also seems to subtly address… …
Anthropic, a key player in the AI industry and creator of the Claude models, has been at the center of the open-weight AI models controversy over the past week. …
