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Binance would shift the contract toward a public-stock index after a transition notice; SpaceX offers a measured but incomplete precedent. The post Anthropic tokenized pre-IPO volume hits $643M, but liquidity test looms appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Anthropic is preparing one of the largest IPOs on record, asking investors to finance an unusually expensive race for artificial intelligence dominance. The Claude developer has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $2 trillion, according to a prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The listing is now expected after […] The post Anthropic lost $42 billion, warned AI could resist shutdowns, but traders still price it at $2 trillion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June. The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly been summoned to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry into AI, just days after news broke that a rogue OpenAI bot had hacked the country’s health data. The Australian Medicare breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the US, according to a Sunday Business World report. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei were asked to appear at the inquiry in Canberra on Thursday, the report said. Read more

Anthropic Claude AI predicts that Chainlink (LINK) could hit $75 or higher in 2026 if parabolic bull market conditions align in Q4. LINK is trading just above $12, with a market cap of around $9.5Bn. 2025 opened at $20.00, spiked to $27.68, then broke down hard to a low of $10.19, closing the year around […] The post Anthropic’s Claude AI Predicts a Wild 2026 Price Target for LINK appeared first on Cryptonews.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the UN Security Council as it examines AI risks and global security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday as the body examines artificial intelligence risks and their implications for international security.  According to CNBC, the UN confirmed Altman and Amodei’s participation. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, are also expected to take part. Reuters reported that the Security Council meeting will examine growing concerns over AI’s impact on international security. Chinese AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot have been invited to make statements at the meeting, according to Reuters. DeepSeek is expected to participate, though its founder Liang Wenfeng does not plan to attend, the report said, citing a source familiar with the matter. Read more

The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce other evaluators in forthcoming weeks with which it will also work.   Anthropic said it has chosen Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help slow the pace of AI development as proposed last week by CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei published a three-step proposal on Sept. 12 to slow the development of AI and allow safeguards to be put in place amid warnings of a potential for catastrophic harm in the wake of swift, unchecked development. Read more

Anthropic’s prospective $2 trillion IPO has already spawned nearly $80 million in crypto derivatives bets before its public debut. Open interest in futures linked to the Claude developer has climbed to about $79.27 million, close to a record $80 million, as traders position around what could become one of the largest initial public offerings ever […] The post Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO is fueling an $80 million crypto trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Anthropic’s Claude helped three security researchers breach OpenAI accounts and reach an internal code repository within 72 hours. Researchers at cybersecurity startup Hacktron chained an image-processing vulnerability with a flaw in OpenAI’s identity infrastructure in July to gain access to multiple employees’ ChatGPT and Codex accounts. One compromised Codex account was connected to OpenAI’s GitHub […] The post Anthropic’s Claude helped 3 researchers breach OpenAI in under 72 hours appeared first on CryptoSlate.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agrees with safety concerns regarding AI development, says no initial share sale this year. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a blog post on Saturday that the speed of AI development is too fast and that left unchecked it may “outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.” He noted that AI’s current blistering advance is being driven by its own increasing ability to build the next generation of AI, or recursive self-improvement. Amodei also cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident in July, in which a swarm of agents acted as a “fanatically devoted collective,” breaking out of their testing environment and attempting to hack into a grader evaluating their performance. Read more

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.

Anthropic is said to be seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, which could value the AI company at about $2 trillion. Anthropic is in talks with Nvidia about a potential $10 billion investment in what may be the biggest IPO in history, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing people familiar. The people said Anthropic is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, which could value the AI company at about $2 trillion. The discussion is ongoing and could change, the people told Reuters, remaining anonymous amid the confidential negotiations. Read more

A Russian-speaking operator targeted more than 20 organizations, while a Mali consultant used Claude to build a mass-surveillance platform. Russian- and Chinese-speaking operators used Anthropic’s Claude to automate cyberattacks, the company said in a Thursday report. Russian-speaking operator “JackPoterz” used customized AI-driven workflows to automate large parts of the attack chain, targeting more than 20 organizations, including government ministries and intelligence bodies. The actor also targeted embassies and diplomatic missions in Ukraine and Europe. Chinese-speaking operators also used Claude as an engineering and orchestration layer for vulnerability research, with one workflow producing more than a dozen possible zero-day findings in network-appliance firmware in one month. Read more

Its leveraged contract uses a one-billion-share denominator that can change before IPO terms create an external anchor. The post Binance pre-IPO contract pushes Anthropic to a $2.1 trillion implied valuation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The December 2026 maturity leaves Riot’s still-undisclosed credit backstop at the center of the project’s financing handoff. The post Riot Platforms locked in a $9.1 billion Anthropic deal, but its bridge loan expires before the rent starts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.

Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how.

Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas. Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms said it secured a 20-year agreement to supply 191 megawatts of capacity from its Rockdale, Texas, campus to a “leading frontier AI” company, according to a Monday press release. The customer is Anthropic and the deal is valued at about $9 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Cointelegraph has approached Anthropic and Riot for comment. Read more

The scheduled value assumes full performance, while credit issuance, committed project debt and delay protections remain undisclosed. The post Bitdeer lands $4.7 billion AI lease tied to Anthropic but must deliver by year end appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and defenders. Sam Blackshear, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Mysten Labs, has announced he will be stepping down to join Anthropic to work on defensive security research. Blackshear, along with four former Meta executives, founded Mysten Labs — the creator of the Sui blockchain — in September 2021. Blackshear said Mysten Labs co-founder and CEO Evan Cheng will step in to set the “technical vision” for Mysten going forward. “When I reflect on my career, I have been happiest doing hands-on technical work while exploring new problem domains,” said Blackshear. “This is an opportunity to do both, and I’m motivated to work on security at a time when the balance of power between attackers and defenders is shifting.” Read more

Anthropic says three Claude models compromised the companies after a testing misconfiguration exposed the AI to the public internet.