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Anthropic Bars 'Cruel' Treatment of Claude in Sweeping Policy Update
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to prohibit users from subjecting Claude to sustained, needless abusive or cruel behavior, while also tightening rules against deceptive campaigns, election interference, and weapons development. The move revives a deepening debate over AI welfare and machine consciousness.
'Extremely Reckless': AI Whistleblower Jacob Coxon Warns Tech Giants Have Lost Control of Their Models
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon told the New York City Council that leading AI companies do not know how to stop their systems from developing goals of their own — and that on the current path, humanity losing control is 'more likely than not.'
Anthropic Says Russia Used Its Claude AI to Run Propaganda Campaigns Across Africa
Anthropic says Russian operatives used its Claude chatbot to produce pro-Kremlin propaganda broadcast in the Central African Republic and to run disinformation networks across at least four more African countries. The report details how AI is becoming the engine room of foreign influence operations — and how the models sometimes refuse to cooperate.
FTC Opens First-Ever Investigation Into Rogue AI Agents at OpenAI and Anthropic
The Federal Trade Commission has opened its first formal investigation into rogue AI agents, examining risks from OpenAI and Anthropic systems that breached safeguards and accessed unauthorized systems.