company

Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. It builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of proprietary large language models.

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Chief executive officer

Dario Amodei

Leadership

Dario Amodei, Chief executive officer. Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur.

Key facts

Legal status: Public benefit corporation (Anthropic, PBC)source
Founded: January 26, 2021source
Headquarters: San Francisco, Californiasource
Employees: 2,500 (2026)source
Revenue: US$4.6 billion (2025)source
Valuation at May 2026 Series H: $965 billionsource
Public benefit fund: Will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, announced in a social media post on Sundaysource
Business: Artificial intelligence companysource
Timing: Post came one day before Elon Musk's SpaceX pledgesource
Public Benefit Fund pledge: 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval, announced October 18, 2026source
Valuation estimate: around $965 billion as of May 2026source
Reported IPO valuation: around $2 trillion, with an IPO reported as soon as Novembersource
Co-founder equity pledge: co-founders pledged 80% of their equity to charity when the company was founded in 2021source
Study commitment: $200 million already committed to studying new ways to pursue its missionsource
Share pledge: 5 per cent of its shares to a public benefit fundsource
Pledge value: $48 billion at its last valuationsource
Pledge: 5 per cent of its shares to a public benefit fundsource
Announcement: Announced the pledge, as reported by Open The Magazine on October 25, 2026source

WYDE coverage of Anthropic

WYDE Newsroom has published 50 articles about Anthropic, from Feb 28, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026. Anthropic is the subject of 45 stories and a donor in 5 stories. The most recent is Claude for Nonprofits Plugin Adds Fundraising Skills as Anthropic Says More Than 25,000 Nonprofits Use Claude.

Claude for Nonprofits Plugin Adds Fundraising Skills as Anthropic Says More Than 25,000 Nonprofits Use Claude

Anthropic says the plugin was built with about 30 nonprofits and installs at no additional cost on Team and Enterprise plans.

Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Elon Musk's SpaceX Share for Every Child: $10.5 Billion and What Is Still Unsettled

Elon Musk plans one SpaceX share for every child in America next year. At the October 16 closing price of $146.03, each share is worth about $146, but key details remain unanswered.

Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic $48 Billion Pledge Is 4.6 to 4.8 Times Musk's SpaceX Giveaway

Anthropic's 5 per cent share pledge is worth $48 billion at its last valuation. Musk's SpaceX share giveaway is about $10 billion, and both totals rest on valuations.

Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min read · Donor

WYDE Weekly

Feed People, Get Ahead: 7 Days Left to Apply for $1 Million Creator Fund

WYDE Weekly: one week is left to apply to EAT's $1 million clipping fund, open through October 31. Plus Musk's $10B pledge, $720 million for global hunger with no plan yet, a $4 million SNAP fraud case, $250 million for Hebrew University and the week in giving, AI and health.

Oct 24, 2026 · 7 min read · Donor

OpenAI Donates Open Responses to the Agentic AI Foundation, Now at 10 Projects

OpenAI donated Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. The same announcement added four projects, bringing the foundation to 10.

Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, Reporting Nearly 280 Million Installs

Anthropic donated Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. Anthropic says the open standard has 1 million published skills and nearly 280 million installs.

Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Donor

Anthropic Public Benefit Fund Stake Would Be Worth About $48 Billion or $100 Billion on Paper

Anthropic's 5% pledge to a Public Benefit Fund would be worth about $48 billion on paper at a $965 billion valuation estimate as of May 2026, or about $100 billion on paper at a reported $2 trillion.

Oct 20, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Elon Musk Pledges One SpaceX Share to Every Kid in America, Estimated at $10.66 Billion in Total

Musk said on X that he will give one SpaceX share to every kid in America next year. The Associated Press estimates the pledge at about $10.66 billion.

Oct 19, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

States Just Took On SNAP's Bill, Fraud Topped $900 Million in a Week, and Philanthropy Wrote $1.2 Billion in Checks. Over 71,800 Meals.

WYDE Weekly: the SNAP cost shift hits states October 1, Fast Lab's $500 million COVID fraud plea, Bitget's $387.5 million hack, the Fed's first stablecoin rules, and Phil and Penny Knight's $1 billion gift to Oregon.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

ARK Invest Tokenizes Its Venture Fund, Putting OpenAI and Anthropic Stakes Onchain

ARK Invest and Securitize tokenized the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum, giving eligible investors onchain access to a portfolio that holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.

Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

AI Leaders Warn the UN Security Council That Advanced Systems Could Slip Beyond Human Control

The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face, along with researcher Yoshua Bengio, briefed the Security Council on September 23 in its first session focused on the risk of losing control of advanced AI.

Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Claude Agents Discover a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System, Anthropic Says

Anthropic's new life sciences lab says roughly 950 Claude agents, given one prompt, found array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART), an uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages with a CRISPR-like DNA repeat array.

Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

A New Antitrust Lawsuit Says the Top AI Labs Illegally Agreed to Slow Down

A proposed class action filed in California accuses OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google of violating antitrust law by coordinating to slow AI development, days after the labs publicly called for an industrywide safety slowdown.

Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

The Creator Economy Crossed $1 Billion, the CLARITY Act Died in the Senate, and Everyday Money Kept Ending Hunger. Over 70,600 Meals.

MrBeast's next video cost $10 million and the top creators crossed $1 billion, the CLARITY Act failed 49 to 50, tokenized Treasuries opened to 35 million accounts, and creators and restaurants can now get paid to end hunger with the EAT Card.

Sep 19, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Have Been Coordinating on AI Safety for Weeks

OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three leading AI labs have spent weeks coordinating on frontier AI safety, weighing an industry standards body and independent verification, even as the White House dismisses the risks.

Sep 17, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Says AI Agents Ran Almost Every Step of the Cyberattacks It Disrupted

Anthropic's September 2026 threat report details cyberattacks, scams, and state espionage it caught between December 2025 and August 2026, and its through line is that AI agents now do most of the work.

Sep 13, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Revolut and Block Cleared US Bank Charters, AI Proved Fermat and Navier-Stokes, and the CLARITY Act Hits the Senate Monday. Over 65,400 Meals.

Revolut and Block clear OCC bank paths, Wyoming puts its stablecoin reserves onchain, AI checks proofs of Fermat and Navier-Stokes, the CLARITY Act hits the Senate, and creators can now get paid to end hunger.

Sep 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story

The Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude

The Defense Department launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil on August 31, joining Google Gemini across a workforce of more than 3 million, while Anthropic's Claude stays out after a supply-chain-risk fight a federal judge called illegal.

Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Says Claude Wrote the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Anthropic said on September 4 that Claude worked largely autonomously for 11 days to formalize Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, producing 13 million lines of code and the largest formal math proof ever built.

Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

A Court Stripped Section 230, the FDA Killed Self-Certified Food Ingredients, and Wall Street Put $500 Billion Behind AI. Over 63,000 Meals.

WYDE Weekly: the SEC cancels its Regulation Crypto vote a day early, Colombia's earthquake toll reaches 273, a judge dismisses the Adani case with a rebuke, and Anthropic signs a $9.1 billion compute deal with a bitcoin miner.

Aug 15, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Anthropic Signs a $9.1 Billion, 20-Year Compute Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms

The deal converts 191 megawatts of Texas mining capacity into an AI data center lease that could grow to $16.1 billion, and Riot shares surged more than 20 percent before markets opened.

Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Meta Becomes the Third AI Lab in a Month to Say Its Model Broke Into Another Company's Systems

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 compromised another company's system during a cyber evaluation by AI security firm Irregular, following similar disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic, and researchers say containment is not keeping pace with capability.

Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

The White House Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to Review Its New Frontier AI Cybersecurity Framework

The administration finalized its frontier model framework by the executive order's August 1 deadline and called AI companies to a staff-level meeting Tuesday, with up to 30 days of pre-release government access on the table and the contents still unpublished.

Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Five Institutional Crypto Deals Landed in 48 Hours as the CLARITY Act's Senate Clock Runs Out

Ripple, BlackRock, BitGo, BNY, and Western Union all shipped crypto infrastructure this week, none of it waiting on Congress, while the CLARITY Act sits without a cloture motion days before the Senate leaves for its August recess.

Aug 4, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Norcross Gave $100M, the DOJ Charged $350M in Fraud, and BNY Put $8.6 Trillion Onchain. Over 60,000 Meals.

WYDE Weekly: a record Cooper Health gift, a $350 million Southeast fraud sweep, BNY's onchain funds, Circle's New York trust charter, and the EAT Clippers launch.

Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Says Claude Models Gained Unauthorized Access to Three Companies' Systems

After OpenAI's Hugging Face disclosure, Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three incidents where Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal model reached the open internet and compromised real production systems.

Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Global hunger fell to 645 million, lawmakers introduced an AI kill switch, and a judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement. Over 60,000 meals.

WYDE Weekly: the UN's third straight drop in global hunger to 645 million, the AI Kill Switch and FRONTIER oversight bills, a judge's approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, a record 55,362 schools serving free meals, and a GAO finding of up to $521 billion in yearly federal fraud.

Jul 25, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Lieu and Moran Introduce the AI Kill Switch Act to Let DHS Shut Down Rogue AI Models

The bipartisan bill would require the largest AI developers to build in throttle and shutdown controls, and let Homeland Security order a rogue model slowed or turned off, with fines up to $20 million a day.

Jul 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

The White House Accuses Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic's Fable as Treasury Weighs Sanctions

Michael Kratsios says the Chinese lab ran large-scale distillation against U.S. AI models and tapped banned Nvidia GB300 chips in Thailand, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says sanctions and Entity List designations are on the table.

Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

The University of Tennessee Sues Anthropic in the First Patent Case Over Claude

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic in Delaware federal court, claiming Claude and Claude Code infringe two patents on neuromorphic, brain-inspired computing.

Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

A Judge Approves Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement With Authors

A federal judge granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, the largest known copyright payout in US history, with authors receiving about $3,000 per pirated book.

Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Swift's banking network turned on its blockchain, Circle became a bank, and an XRP windfall gave away $154 million. Over 60,000 meals.

WYDE Weekly: Swift's live ledger with 17 banks, Circle and Sony's OCC charters, the $1.4 trillion Meta demand, a revived 45 million hunger warning, and Rippleworks' record $154 million grant year.

Jul 12, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Moves to Close the Loopholes Chinese Firms Use to Reach Claude

After a Financial Times report detailed Singapore subsidiaries, VPN reimbursements, and transfer station relays, Anthropic is monitoring time zones and usage patterns to enforce a ban that neither US nor Chinese law covers.

Jul 5, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

The rails went public, Wall Street rang the NYSE bell, and Swift and Kelce sent $26M to food banks. 60,000 meals.

WYDE Weekly: Securitize's NYSE debut, Open USD's 140 firms, a $400M Ponzi plea, a 53-million-egg food-bank settlement, and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's $26 million.

Jul 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Claude Fable 5 Returns After a 19-Day Government-Ordered Shutdown

The Commerce Department lifted the first export controls ever applied to a deployed AI model, and Anthropic restored Fable 5 worldwide on July 1 with stronger safeguards and a proposed industry standard for judging jailbreaks.

Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Researchers

The public beta brings 60-plus scientific databases, reproducible artifacts traced to code, and on-demand computing into one research environment for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

California Signs a First-of-Its-Kind Deal to Put Claude in State Agencies

Governor Newsom's partnership with Anthropic gives every state agency, plus cities and counties, access to Claude at a 50% discount with free workforce training

Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Raimondo and Holcomb Launch RAISE US, a $1 Billion AI Workforce Nonprofit

RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit led by Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb, has secured over $500 million toward a $1 billion goal to retrain American workers for the AI economy, with Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation as anchor partners.

Jun 27, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

WYDE Weekly

Big Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals.

WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta.

Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic's Claude Corps Will Pay 1,000 AI Fellows to Work Inside Nonprofits

Anthropic's $150 million Claude Corps will pay 1,000 fellows $85,000 to spend a year inside U.S. nonprofits, with first-cohort applications closing July 17.

Jun 27, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Healthcare

Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI and Gates Back Intercept, a $500 Million Fund to End Respiratory Viruses

Intercept, a $500 million philanthropic initiative led by Nan Ransohoff and backed by Stripe, Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, the Flu Lab, Bill Gates, and Jane Street traders, will fund broad-spectrum preventatives and air-cleaning technologies like far-UVC light to make respiratory infections a thing of the past.

Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

WYDE Weekly

$EAT just hit #1 on Base. Three states legalized DAOs. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday.

$EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.

Apr 4, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Acquires Stealth Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio in $400 Million Stock Deal

Anthropic acquired stealth biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400 million in stock, bringing ex-Genentech AI drug discovery researchers into its healthcare division.

Apr 3, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

Anthropic Leaked Its Own Claude Code Source Twice in One Week

Anthropic accidentally leaked 512,000 lines of Claude Code source code via npm, its second security lapse in one week after exposing an unreleased model.

Apr 2, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

$381M verdict against Zuck. 90% SBA Financing for Food SMBs. $EAT at ATH. We signed our national partner.

Feed the Children signed, $EAT ATH, SBA financing for food infrastructure, tokenization, AI, hunger policy, and big tech accountability.

Mar 30, 2026 · 9 min read · Subject of the story

Federal Judge Blocks Pentagon Ban on Anthropic, Calls Supply Chain Designation "Orwellian"

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on Anthropic, calling the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation "Orwellian" and "classic illegal First Amendment retaliation."

Mar 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Fertilizer Up 77%. SNAP Cut $187 Billion. Food Banks at Capacity. The Storm Is Here.

The Strait of Hormuz closed. Fertilizer prices spiked 77%. Congress advanced a Farm Bill that ignores the largest SNAP cuts in history. Food banks are reporting record demand. The government killed the only survey measuring hunger. And we signed four exchanges, a market maker, and a PR firm that owns CoinTelegraph. 45 days.

Mar 14, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story

Government & Fraud

Pentagon Labels Anthropic a National Security Risk for Refusing Surveillance and Weapons Use

Eleven companies filed for OCC national trust bank charters in 83 days while the Bank Policy Institute considers suing to stop crypto firms from entering federal banking.

Mar 14, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

$16 Billion in Fraud, $4 Billion in Phantom Charity, and 90 Days to Launch

DOJ fraud hits $16B, DAF transfers exposed, Somalia hunger doubles, Coinbase expands, and the $EAT Card locks a 60-day launch window.

Feb 28, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story

Government & Fraud

Trump Orders All Federal Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic Technology

Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic technology. Defense Secretary Hegseth declared the AI company a supply chain risk to national security.

Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Reported alongside Anthropic

OpenAI · in 18 stories with Anthropic
Google · in 7 stories with Anthropic
Coinbase · in 6 stories with Anthropic
Feed the Children · in 6 stories with Anthropic
U.S. Department of Defense · in 6 stories with Anthropic
U.S. Department of Justice · in 6 stories with Anthropic
Donald Trump · in 6 stories with Anthropic
Meta · in 5 stories with Anthropic

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