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Anthropic says 80% of code for Claude is written by Claude, calls for slowdown

Human review might take more time than writing the code in the near future, Anthropic says. (Picture: Anthropic)

Recursive self-improvement may come sooner than we are prepared for, the AI lab says in a new report.

They are now foreseeing a not-so-distant future where Claude can autonomously write and improve on itself, and is warning that humans might lose control.

Compared to 2021-2025, Anthropic is now producing 8x more code with AI tools, and this rate is doubling every four months, approaching a point where human judgment could become the bottleneck in software design.

With the more capable Mythos Preview model, researchers at the company estimate they could output another 4 times as much code on top of the already accelerating trend.

There is no sign of this progress stopping, and Anthropic is now calling for a global slowdown so that society has time to adapt. Even if growth did stop, or somehow development stalled, we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of adopting the already existing technology, the lab says.

Read more: Anthropic’s report, launch thread summary, Axios, The WSJ. DIscussion on r/Singularity.

The EU plans for «technological sovereignty» with huge investments

The European Union has a long checklist of things to improve in the AI age, and stands ready to invest «at scale.» (Picture: Shutterstock)

The EU is increasingly concerned at their reliance on the USA for all things cloud, software and AI, and is taking urgent steps to counter it, or, as they put it, to «strengthen Europe’s digital resilience.»

— We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure, Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen says in a statement.

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The Trump White House releases long awaited Executive Order on AI

The order sets up a voluntary sharing scheme of models meeting a yet to be determined threshold. (Picture: Shutterstock)

The order was initially planned for late May, but would put what the President thought were too onerous demands on the industry.

The new order, released on June 2, reduces the voluntary sharing window to 30 days, waxes poetic about unleashing innovation in the AI labs, and says they make the USA stronger. It also says that capabilities have evolved to a point where national security becomes an issue.

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Anthropic confidentially files paperwork for Initial Public Offering

The company says the filing does not mean it will announce going public any time soon, but some speculate it might come as early as this fall, according to The New York Times.

The documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission detail operations, and typically include potential risks, C-suite compensation «and other financials,» The Verge writes.

The filing of the S-1 form, the public declaration on finances and risks, will come at a later date, Anthropic says, and will be determined by «market conditions and other factors.» They only need to file a prospectus fifteen days before publicly soliciting stocks, CNBC reports.

An actual IPO from Anthropic is expected to be massive, as the recent fundraise at a $965 billion valuation would indicate. The company has an annualized run rate of some $47 billion, but investors are more keen to see the gross margin, which has been kept secret in its entirety since inception, according to Reuters.

OpenAI is also expected to file an IPO in short order, and with SpaceX already filing, it sets up a blockbuster year for market debuts.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, The New York Times, CNBC, The Verge, and market comments from Reuters.

Nvidia launches Arm-based RTX Spark SoC for Windows-based AI computers

Nvidia promises a new paradigm in how we use computers, but offers little detail. (Picture: Nvidia)

Claiming a new era in PC processing power, the new system chip is custom-built for AI workflows and is «a New Beginning for Personal Computers,» Nvidia says.

According to Nvidia, people with the RTX Spark installed can simply talk to their computer to get stuff done. A designer can get AI to evolve their sketch all the way to a finished 3D model and a movie with Adobe tools with agents doing all the lifting, for example, The Verge reports.

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SoftBank to spend €75 billion on data centers, manufacturing in France

The manufacturing and data centers will require next-gen worker skills. (Picture: Adobe)

The northern port of Dunkirk will become an advanced, automated AI manufacturing hub in the new plan — to support the buildout of 5 GW of compute power.

For the first phase, SoftBank is offering €45 billion to build 3.1 GW of capacity at various sites in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031, ramping up at a later date.

— SoftBank Group’s AI data centers will support growing demand for high-performance computing from AI companies, cloud providers, enterprises, public institutions and research organizations, they write in their release.

France was selected because of its wide manufacturing base, but another important factor is it advanced power grid, fueled by generous amounts of nuclear energy.

SoftBank will partner with Schneider Electric on the project, which will also create «thousands» of advanced, high-skilled jobs, requiring local universities, engineering schools, and training institutions to step up.

SoftBank is a major investor in OpenAI and is deeply involved in the Stargate program to build out compute capacity. This effort seems separate from both.

Read more: SoftBanks release, Reuters, and TechCrunch.

Codex computer use and remote control is now available on Windows

Announced in April, Codex with computer use can now see, click and type on your Windows box.

The same goes for remote control with ChatGPT on iOS or Android, and you can also use a Mac to control Codex on Windows.

Codex computer use opens PDFs, spreadsheets, slides and docs and can even handle SSH connections. It can control «any app on your computer,» and can work in the background so it won’t bother your workflow.

The remote control feature can answer questions, review code, handle approvals or let you change directions on Codex right from ChatGPT on your phone.

You can download the app here, and it is available for Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise plans.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, How to get started.

Anthropic ships «more honest» Opus 4.8, teases Mythos release

Anthropic’s latest tops the benchmarks and makes fewer mistakes. (Picture: Anthropic)

The new model comes just over a month after the last one. It is four times less likely to allow flaws in code or make unsupported claims, and is «more likely» to say so when it is uncertain about a reply.

Releasing today at the same price as 4.7, it can tackle problems at a larger scale and has an upgrade to the «fast mode» — which is now three times cheaper.

There is also a new setting for Claude where users can set the «effort»-level on a given task. More effort costs more tokens, but gives a more precise answer, while low effort won’t bust rate limits.

The new Opus is of course on top of all the benchmarks so far in the cycle, and it is supposedly also sharper and more reliable in its judgement.

At the same time, Anthropic has some news about the code-busting Mythos model, previously deemed too dangerous to release.

The company says it is making headway on the safeguards needed to make it safe enough for public use, and plans to bring «Mythos-class» models to their customers «in the coming weeks.»

Installs of DuckDuckGo are soaring amid Google’s AI search push

DuckDuckGo has become popular with the anti-AI crowd. (Picture: generated)

Google has made it clear that they are no longer a search company, but an AI company — further expanding AI Mode, extending AI overviews, and changing the iconic search box. Some people aren’t having it.

One practical effect of this can be seen in downloads of alternative search engine DuckDuckGo, which have greatly increaesed in the last few weeks, TechCrunch writes.

From May 20 to May 25, just after Google unveiled a new search box, weekly installs went up 18.1%, peaking at 30% on May 25. It grew even stronger on iOS, peaking at 70% week on week in the same period.

— Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tells TechCrunch, — We want to be the place that puts users in charge and allows them to decide how much or how little AI they want.

The search engine does use some AI to filter out images, and offers an AI chat product at duck.ai, but is famously privacy-focused, doesn’t store a thing, and also provides the AI-free noai.duckduckgo.com.

Go read the full story at TechCrunch

Robinhood unleashes stock trading agents for consumer accounts

Major brokerages already use AI, and now it is coming to consumers. (Picture: Robinhood)

The stock trading platform is announcing agent-based accounts that will trade stocks based on different profiles, and also launched a credit card for them to use online.

— Our mission has always been to democratize finance for all, and now, that mission extends to AI agents, CEO Vlad Tenev said, according to CNBC.

The company says the service is designed with a safety-first mindset, meaning you retain control over trades and purchases by requiring approval first, and get notifications for every transaction.

It works by setting up a dedicated trading account for your agent, separate from your main portfolio. Then you can transfer funds and let the agent trade based on strategies you set out.

It is not the first such agentic framework, there are already specialized stock trading agents from public.com and there’s TradingAgents, but it is for a major player.

Read more: Robinhood’s announcement, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Verge.

China begins restricting foreign travel for private AI professionals

China is increasingly worried about technology leaks and talent poaching. (Picture: Adobe)

Sources are telling Bloomberg that China has established a list of AI engineers that will now have to ask permission from authorities before traveling abroad.

The move comes after seeing the astronomical wages being offered for valuable AI competence by US labs, such as Meta, Bloomberg writes, but notes that China sees AI labs as a strategic asset and are concerned about data leaks.

The previous policy included restrictions for individuals that were senior researchers in education, nuclear scientists and top executives of government companies, Tom’s Hardware writes.

Before this, AI workers on the list only had to report where they were traveling, but did not have to ask for specific permission.

The new rules might inspire early-stage talent with international ambitions to leave the country before getting added to the list, and dissuade overseas talent from moving home to China, Bloomberg says.

Read more: Bloomberg, Tom’s Hardware, and The Decoder.

Mythos finds 10K severe bugs in a month, as Anthropic widens release

Anthropic is now expanding availability for government and qualifying security teams. (Picture: Shutterstock)

Officially dubbed the Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s code-busting agent has worked with about 50 partners to find ten thousand high-severity bugs in the month since release:

— Progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities. Now it’s limited by how quickly we can verify, disclose, and patch the large numbers of vulnerabilities found by AI, Anthropic says.

Of those vulnerabilities, 6,202 were serious finds in open source software, where Anthropic has partnered with «more than 1,000» projects. Mythos actually found 23,019 bugs, but most were estimated at medium or low severity.

— Models with similar cybersecurity skills to Mythos Preview will soon be more broadly available, says Anthropic.

— There is a clear need for a larger effort across the software industry to manage the volume of findings that these models will generate.

Therefore, Anthropic is widening the release of Mythos, making it available to «qualifying» security teams «on request.» In the future, they say they hope to develop safeguards strong enough to make it generally available, but no such safety features exist as of today.

Read more: Anthropic’s findings and Engadget. Discussion on r/cybersecurity

OpenAI’s Q1 2026 ended with $5.7 billion in revenue, and a -122% margin

OpenAI is still leading the pack, but is facing increasing headwinds. (Picture: Adobe)

The Information (paywalled) says sources are telling them that OpenAI landed a billion dollars ahead of Anthropic last quarter, but «only» has an annualized run rate of $30 billion versus Anthropic’s $45B.

The AI lab estimates that its adjusted income margin was at -122%, meaning it lost $1.22 for every dollar earned, driven by high investment costs for infrastructure and compute.

The growth was driven mainly by Codex and enterprise customers, the report said — although ChatGPT growth stalled at about 905 million weekly users in the latest quarter.

OpenAI is said to reveal its IPO plans «within weeks,» Reuters reports, and possibly as soon as «this Friday,» according to CNBC.

Its most recent funding round valued the company at $852 billion, just short of Anthropic’s $900 billion — but their funding round came a little later.

Read more: The Information (paywalled), Ed Zitron on X.

«Anti-doomers» breathe easy after Trump cancels AI executive order

Not singing anything today. Executives and insiders were worried about their competitive edge. This image is from April 30. (Picture: Whitehouse.gov)

The White House was all lined up for a long-rumored executive order on AI, but it was abruptly canceled at a late stage.

Donald Trump declared that «I don’t like certain aspects of it,» and said that the USA is «leading China, we’re leading on everybody» and that he doesn’t want to get in the way of that.

The draft order was designed to appease «doomers» within the Trump coalition who were worried about the advanced capabilities of some models that might pose serious cybersecurity risks.

One of the provisions was to have AI labs «voluntarily» submit their models to the government for review 90 days in advance, and also give access to «critical infrastructure providers,» Reuters reported.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reckoned in January that China is «just months» behind the US in capabilities, and many advocates said the provision could hurt this competitiveness.

The order is now indefinitely postponed, but The White House has other AI security initiatives in the works, Axios reports.

Read more: Axios, Reuters, Washington Post (paywalled), and The NYT (paywalled).

Anthropic aims for first profitable quarter in Q2, with $559 million in the green

Anthropic is reaching for profits, but compute costs might be a damper. (Picture: Shutterstock)

Last quarter ending in March saw an 80-fold growth for Anthropic and a revenue of $4.8 billion, a record for the AI lab.

Next quarter will be even better, sources are telling Reuters and WSJ — projecting a revenue growth of 130% and landing at $10.9 billion, more than double their previous number.

That should land them an operating profit of $559 million, Reuters reports.

This unprecedented growth underscores how Claude has boomed in the new year for coders and enterprises alike, that OpenAI is racing to catch up to.

The Wall Street Journal does however warn that this growth in subscribers also translates to higher computing costs, that might put a significant dent in their yearly profits.

Both OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to file for IPOs in the near future, and OpenAI might file in the coming weeks.

Read more: Reuters, WSJ, and TechCrunch.