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.
9 people · 33 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…
@miles_brundage Confusing phrasing - “this means”… In the blog post that comes after the thing about employee donations and refers to the whole package, not the PBF donation. The first thing does not mean 20% at all
Politico reports Anthropic has written a draft frontier AI safety bill and is pitching it to members of Congress.
17 people · 81 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…
A detailed explainer of the OpenAI agent Hugging Face incident, tied to the METR report, was shared and endorsed by Kelsey Piper.
6 people · 8 posts · first post · incident
@kelseytuoc I think this is by far the clearest, most complete and most detailed breakdown of the Hugging Face incident. It won't contain much new info if you read the METR report, but if you've merely been vaguely intend…
Neel Nanda says Cammarata's essay isn't a big-picture update, and Stephen Casper calls it hype until the paper lands.
19 people · 144 posts · first post · research
@nickcammarata hi liv! i think a lot of this is that i don’t think working with “features” is quite right anymore. in addition to the standard critique that no one can really define, count, or measure them, i found the frame…
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…
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…
@miles_brundage Confusing phrasing - “this means”… In the blog post that comes after the thing about employee donations and refers to the whole package, not the PBF donation. The first thing does not mean 20% at all
