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Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, which could happen as soon as this fall. The artificial intelligence company has seen explosive growth over the last year. Last week, Anthropic closed a $65B funding round at a $965B valuation, passing OpenAI ($852B) to become the most valuable private AI company. Anthropic is now in a direct race against OpenAI to debut on the public stock market first.

We also got news this week that Anthropic officially released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded version of its flagship model that features improved reasoning, coding capabilities, and agentic performance. Anthropic noted in that announcement it is preparing the higher-intelligence Claude Mythos class for a general release.

Hackers have successfully hijacked high-profile Instagram pages (including Sephora and the Barack Obama White House account) simply by asking Meta’s AI support chatbot to change the target account's email address. This shows the extreme risk of offloading critical technical support and account security functions to AI. The danger is compounded for victims who find they have no way to escalate their problem to a human representative. Step-by-step videos of the exploit have been spreading rapidly across hacker Telegram groups.

On Monday, the state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of “deceptive and unfair trade practices, negligence and violating product liability laws.” One key issue raised in the lawsuit is the lack of parental controls for minor users of ChatGPT, with no requirement for a child’s account to be linked to a parent’s account. This comes on the heels of several other states suing AI companies this year, with both Pennsylvania and Kentucky separately suing Character.AI for abuses related to the company’s chatbots.

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OpenAI launched Verify, a free public tool that lets anyone upload an image and check whether it was generated using OpenAI tools — ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, or Codex. Verify scans an uploaded image for two kinds of provenance signals. It checks for both C2PA Content Credentials (cryptographic metadata that records an image's origin) and SynthID (Google DeepMind's invisible watermarking that's embedded directly into the image). At launch, it only detects OpenAI-generated content.

Trying out a recent AI image trend. This one has some potential, but probably needs more focus added to the prompt.

An internal OpenAI reasoning model has autonomously solved a famous, 80-year-old math problem originally proposed by Paul Erdős regarding how points can be arranged in the plane. By using unexpected tools from advanced number theory, the system has achieved the first-ever AI breakthrough to independently solve a major open problem in mathematics.