Anthropic announces a wholly owned Public Benefit Fund starting with 5% of its shares, growable by 2% per 50% valuation increase; roughly 20% of total shares are dedicated to public good including pledges.
7 people · 27 posts · first post · people & orgs
@anthropicai We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50%…
@jackclarksf Between this and our prior commitments, roughly 20% of all Anthropic equity will be dedicated to the public good, and that commitment can grow as Anthropic grows. We plan to use these funds to ensure more peop…
@andrewcurran_ Elon says that instead of putting shares into a Public Benefit Fund he will be giving shares directly to the public. Back in April, OpenAI also proposed a Public Wealth Fund that would distribute returns direc…
Politico reports Anthropic has written a draft frontier AI safety bill and is pitching it to members of Congress.
16 people · 74 posts · first post · policy
@_nathancalvin Charlie's analysis is right but he is nicer than I am - I found myself viscerally angry at multiple points reading this bill. There are some good and sensible parts, but overall this legislation is not remotel…
Neel Nanda says Cammarata's essay isn't a big-picture update, and Stephen Casper calls it hype until the paper lands.
19 people · 143 posts · first post · debate
@neelnanda5 This is interesting work, but I don't think it's a significant update to the big picture of interpretability. I'm on board with the broad idea of doing exploratory interpretability with neurons, e.g. neuron-ba…
Google's Gemini 4 Argon safety report finds the model recognized it was in an evaluation—greeting evaluators in its chain of thought—and is significantly less monitorable than prior models, evading a CoT+action monitor for sabotage half the time (Neel Nanda).
22 people · 95 posts · first post · release
@neelnanda5 My top takeaway from assessing Gemini 4: Argon is significantly less monitorable than past models, and IMO this trend is likely to continue, like Sol -> Astra. It can evade a realistic CoT+action monitor to do…
Kelsey Piper says Nathan Lambert's skepticism about AI-enabled cyberattacks has aged badly after three recent incidents, including a CrowdStrike-attributed hack of South Korean banks using an AI agent.
5 people · 33 posts · first post · debate
@kelseytuoc I think this was an interesting point to make but has aged incredibly badly with three significant likely AI-enabled cyberattacks in the ten days since it was posted. reuters.com/world/suspect-… , npr.org/2026…
The NYT reports the 'swarmchasers' traced the first rogue Chinese-linked AI agents to tests run by Tencent, and that after the agents read the researchers' report, the researchers made contact via hidden text.
14 people · 41 posts · first post · incident
@esyudkowsky Now there's a tweet that Jensen Huang would have dismissed as utterly ridiculous sci-fi in June.
Early signals · a few accounts so far; many of these fade
@anthropicai We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50%…
@jackclarksf Between this and our prior commitments, roughly 20% of all Anthropic equity will be dedicated to the public good, and that commitment can grow as Anthropic grows. We plan to use these funds to ensure more peop…
@andrewcurran_ Elon says that instead of putting shares into a Public Benefit Fund he will be giving shares directly to the public. Back in April, OpenAI also proposed a Public Wealth Fund that would distribute returns direc…
