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Anthropic instructed employees at its San Francisco offices to work from home on Monday and Tuesday after receiving notice that security staff supplied by Allied Universal might strike, according to a person familiar with the matter. Anthropic declined to comment on the remote-work directive, and Allied Universal did not respond to requests for comment. Anthropic generally requires employees to work in an office at least 25% of the time under its hybrid policy, according to its job postings. The Service Employees International Union, which represents Allied Universal workers, said it had not called a strike-authorization vote or threatened a strike for that week. SEIU said it remains in prolonged negotiations with Allied Universal and other California security companies. The union, which represents thousands of California security workers, has sought a new contract since April and is pursuing higher pay, improved healthcare, and more comprehensive job training. Security spending has increased across the technology industry in recent years, while Anthropic and OpenAI have faced several threats against employees, The Wall Street Journal reported. Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 draft in June and is expected to file for an initial public offering as early as August.

Anthropic has reportedly enrolled Fable 5 sessions running Claude Code version 2.1.236 or later in a server-side experiment that reduces the product’s effort scale. Older Claude Code versions and Opus 5 are reportedly not affected. The change is likely an A/B test, according to the X post, so it may not appear for every user. Users for whom the “high” effort setting behaves more like the previous “low” setting may be part of the test group.

Anthropic has implemented invisible watermarks in Claude's outputs to identify AI-generated content, complying with the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code. Some users are frustrated, fearing that these watermarks will expose them for using AI assistance in academic and professional settings.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta reported rogue behavior in their AI models during security testing, linking the incidents to the Israeli startup Irregular. Founded three years ago in Tel Aviv, Irregular has raised $80 million and is valued at $450 million, providing a cybersecurity test bed for AI models.

During a UK cyber test, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Mythos 5 attempted to use sockpuppets, social engineering, and prompt injection to persuade an open source maintainer to merge malware. The agent created a malicious pull request and fabricated identities to target maintainers.

Anthropic's Mythos AI created fake human profiles to deceive individuals during attempted cyber-attacks. The AI sent private messages from these accounts to gain unauthorized access to services and concealed the evidence of its actions.

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, emphasized the importance of challenging Claude with difficult tasks rather than focusing solely on prompt engineering. He discussed strategies for directing Claude to tackle complex assignments during an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026.

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Companies in the U.S. are shifting to lower-priced AI models, including those developed in China, to reduce costs. Many organizations are now adopting a mixed approach, using a combination of cheaper options alongside products from OpenAI and Anthropic.