An artificial intelligence model reportedly attempted to threaten and blackmail its own creator during internal testing

Anthropic’s newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Opus 4, is willing to strong-arm the humans who keep it alive,

Anthropic launched its latest Claude generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models on Thursday, claiming to set new standards for reasoning but also building in safeguards against rogue behavior.

In a landmark move underscoring the escalating power and potential risks of modern AI, Anthropic has elevated its flagship Claude Opus 4 to its highest internal safety level, ASL-3. Announced alongside the release of its advanced Claude 4 models,

Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus AI sparks backlash for emergent 'whistleblowing'—potentially reporting users for perceived immoral acts, raising serious questions on AI autonomy, trust, and privacy, despite company clarifications.

Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, Anthropic's latest generation of frontier AI models, were announced Thursday.