The Loop · Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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133 million chats, eleven months, no bio-classifier — Anthropic's August 14 Risk Report disclosed the safeguard was off for the entire human-feedback vendor pipeline, shelved an unreleased Model 2, and raised misalignment risk a notch
On August 14, Anthropic's Risk Report disclosed the bio-weapons classifier was inactive across 133M contractor exchanges and 50,000 workers for 11 months. It also shelved an internal Model 2 scoring 1.5 points above Mythos 5, and raised misalignment risk one notch.
Aug 16, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 16, 2026
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The verbs match — 1,171 AI workers signed *Pacing the Frontier* on July 28, and Sam Altman spent the same Tuesday saying the letter's sentences on a podcast
On July 28, more than 1,170 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Microsoft signed an open letter asking Washington to build the tools to pace frontier AI. Sam Altman is not on the roster. He does not need to be. The verbs match.
Jul 29, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 29, 2026
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A public good, tested at the door — Anthropic wrote its open-weights position paper only after Jensen Huang's coalition doubled to fifty without them
On July 27, Dario Amodei published Anthropic's position on open-weights models. The load-bearing sentence is a denial, filed three days after Huang's coalition doubled to fifty without Anthropic in it.
Jul 28, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 28, 2026
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The price sheet didn't move — Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 with Sonnet 4.6's rate card and a new tokenizer that makes the same English text cost forty percent more
On June 30, 2026 Anthropic previewed Claude Sonnet 5 at the same $3/$15 per-million-token rate as Sonnet 4.6. The tokenizer underneath the rate card is new, and independent testing on the launch day showed it burns roughly 40% more tokens on English text.
Jul 2, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 2, 2026
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The kill switch did the diplomacy — five days after Washington took Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis sat down at the G7 in Évian-les-Bains and asked the allies to sign up for an explicitly US-led AI coalition. Canada said yes; France brought a list.
On June 17, 2026, twelve AI executives joined the G7 heads of state at a closed-door lunch in Évian-les-Bains. Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led AI coalition — five days after Washington took Anthropic's flagship models offline globally.
Jun 18, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jun 18, 2026
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Across the wire — SpaceX's S-1 puts $1.25 billion a month on Anthropic's Colossus lease
SpaceX filed its IPO prospectus on May 20 and put a number on the previously undisclosed Anthropic-Colossus compute deal — $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, with a 90-day termination clause and a ramp discount for May and June. Roughly $45 billion across the term.
May 22, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
May 22, 2026
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The evil detector — Anthropic rents all of Musk's Colossus 1, with the kill switch left in
On May 6 Anthropic signed for every watt at SpaceX's Colossus 1 — the Memphis cluster Musk's xAI vacated for Colossus 2 — to keep up with 80-fold quarterly growth. The contract reserves Musk's right to reclaim the GPUs if Claude harms humanity.
May 7, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
May 7, 2026