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Anthropic warns it may soon cross its own threshold for faster AI progress

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Anthropic warns it may soon cross its own threshold for faster AI progress
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dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI
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Anthropic's IPO filing warns it may imminently meet a threshold in its own Responsible Scaling Policy, as The New York Times sues Brave over scraping.
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Anthropic's new filing warns it may soon meet its own threshold for accelerated progress, though no current model crosses it.
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The New York Times and three other papers sued Brave, alleging it scraped their articles and sold access to AI companies.
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Gemini reads your Gmail to summarise and draft replies, and Google says it does not train its foundational AI models on personal emails.
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Anthropic added new warnings to the Risk Factors section of its revised S-1A filing on Monday.
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The filing says the company may imminently meet a threshold set in its own Responsible Scaling Policy.
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TechCrunch reads this as a warning that Anthropic is close to recursive self-improvement, or RSI.
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The same filing also updated the company's financials, showing revenue and expenses both rising.
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Anthropic says it uses AI in its own research and development.
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The filing warns this may cause its models' capabilities to advance faster than its ability to build matching safety, alignment and security measures.
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It also says the company has in the past not identified a significant acceleration in its rate of development until after it happened.
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Anthropic says it has not designated any of its current models as exceeding this threshold.
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The warning rests on internal estimates and expectations about future models, not current ones.
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RSI is the point where AI becomes good enough at training itself that progress speeds up sharply.
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Some people see it as a danger that could slip beyond human control.
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Others see it as a source of huge productivity and scientific discovery.
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Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy is its plan to monitor and reduce these risks as that point approaches.
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Anthropic says it may soon reach its own threshold for self-accelerating AI
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Anthropic tells investors its AI may soon speed up its own progress.
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The warning sits in the Risk Factors of Anthropic's revised S-1A filing.
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It says capabilities may advance faster than its safety, alignment and security measures.
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Anthropic says it has missed such jumps before, and no current model crosses the line.
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When the builder itself warns that safety may lag, the debate about AI speed stops being theory.
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Should AI labs slow down when safety lags?
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The New York Times sued Brave, the company behind the privacy-focused Brave browser, on Monday.
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The suit alleges Brave scraped the paper's copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to AI companies.
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The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit the same day.
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Both cases were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
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The suit says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages using an unidentified crawler, leaving publishers unable to block it.
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According to the complaints, Brave sells AI companies paid access to content from that index.
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The customers named are Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
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The suits also target a Brave browser feature that lets users bypass paywalls.
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The publishers say Brave never asked their permission or paid them.
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The New York Times has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity over similar claims.
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Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping and paywall bypassing
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The New York Times sues Brave, saying it sold scraped news to AI firms.
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The suit says Brave indexed more than 30 billion web pages with an unidentified crawler.
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Named customers include Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
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Three more papers filed a similar lawsuit the same day in Manhattan.
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The copyright fight is moving from AI labs to the companies that supply their data.
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Should AI companies pay for the news they use?
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Google has rolled out many Gemini features across Gmail this year, Engadget reports.
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Gemini can summarise recent emails, create to-do lists and draft replies.
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Many of these free features are switched on by default.
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That has raised concerns about whether putting Gemini in Gmail violates users' privacy.
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To do these tasks, Gemini needs access to the content of your emails.
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In a statement from April 2026, Google says it does not train its foundational AI models, including Gemini, on personal emails.
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Google says Gemini only accesses your inbox for isolated tasks such as summarising or drafting.
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It says Gemini processes your information to complete the request and does not hold onto it afterwards.
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Google's support page says the same safeguards cover Chat, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Sheets and Slides.
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A large language model is the kind of AI system behind chatbots like Gemini.
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Many AI companies also face lawsuits accusing them of mass copyright infringement.
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That is why users ask whether their own emails could end up as training data.
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Engadget says turning off smart features can also switch off spelling and grammar checks.
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What Gemini does with your Gmail, according to Google
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Gemini can read your Gmail, and many of its features are on by default.
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Gemini summarises recent emails, creates to-do lists and drafts replies.
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Google says it does not train Gemini on your personal emails.
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Google says Gemini does not hold onto your data after each request.
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Open your Gmail settings and check which Gemini features are switched on.
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Do you let AI read your work email?
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Anthropic filed the registration statement for its initial public offering last week, ahead of a planned November stock market debut.
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In an opinion piece, Matt Scherer argues the SEC should block the listing.
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Scherer is co-author of a report on protecting people and the economy if an AI bubble bursts.
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He says the company's finances look stronger on the surface than underneath.
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Scherer writes that Anthropic has $96 billion in cash reserves.
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He says its amended registration statement shows at least $582 billion in non-cancelable spending commitments to five companies: Amazon, AMD, Broadcom, Google and Microsoft.
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He says footnotes reveal nearly $900 billion in spending commitments in total, most stretching into the 2030s.
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He notes the 2026 results have not been formally audited.
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He argues third-quarter results suggest revenue growth slowed over the summer.
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Scherer argues that spending commitments like these work like debts, because the payments are contractually required in future.
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His worry is that workers, retail investors and retirees could be left holding the bag.
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An op-ed argues the SEC should block Anthropic's IPO
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A critic says Anthropic's $582 billion in commitments should stop its IPO.
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Anthropic plans a November stock market debut, the op-ed says.
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Matt Scherer counts $96 billion in cash against far larger spending commitments.
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He notes Anthropic's 2026 results have not been formally audited.
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This is one critic's reading of the filing, not a regulator's decision.
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Would you buy shares in an AI lab?
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Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt so the tool is not used to re-create existing video games, The Verge reports.
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Users can still use Claude Code to make their own games.
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Anthropic's Addy Osmani said the change applies to Claude Code on Opus 5.5.
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Tom's Hardware first reported the change, according to The Verge.
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Last week, a user on X posted a screenshot said to show two new sentences in the prompt.
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Osmani did not confirm that exact wording, but said Anthropic had added two sentences to the prompt.
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He said the aim is to steer Claude away from recreating someone else's specific game.
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He said using Claude to infringe intellectual property is against Anthropic's usage policy.
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Original games, genre games and games built from a user's own designs and assets are meant to keep working, he said.
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Retro gaming is being flooded with AI-made decompilations, recompilations and ports, The Verge reports.
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Osmani said Anthropic will keep adjusting the rule to strike the right balance.
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The Verge has asked whether other Claude system prompts will change too.
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Anthropic steers Claude Code away from cloning existing video games
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Anthropic told Claude Code to stop cloning existing video games.
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Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5.
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Original games and games from your own designs are meant to keep working.
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Anthropic says using Claude to infringe intellectual property breaks its usage policy.
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If Claude refuses a game that is yours, Anthropic's Addy Osmani asked users to send it to him.
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Should AI tools refuse to copy games?
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Anthropic's warning sits in its IPO filing, not a blog post.
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The filing says safety, alignment and security work may not keep pace with its models' capabilities.
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It also says the company has missed such accelerations before, until after they happened.
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The Brave case targets a supplier of content to AI firms rather than an AI lab itself.
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The named customers include Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
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A win for the publishers could change where AI companies get their fresh text.

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An op-ed argues the SEC should block Anthropic's IPO, citing at least $582 billion in non-cancelable spending commitments.
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Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt to stop it recreating specific existing games, while original games stay allowed.