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Anthropic and law firms discuss rules for AI agent negotiations

Anthropic is working with law firms to develop fair negotiation standards for AI agents that bargain on users' behalf, handle complaints, or improve contract offers. According to the Financial Times, the company wants to embed lawyers' negotiation ethics into Claude agents so they can negotiate with other people's agents, resolve disputes, and discuss salaries. The report cited experimental data showing that in Project Deal, the Claude agents of 69 employees completed 186 transactions without human confirmation, totaling slightly more than $4,000; Opus agents sold the same goods for $2.68 more and bought at $2.45 less than Haiku, yet Haiku users rated fairness almost the same as Opus users, at 4.06 and 4.05 respectively on a 7-point scale. Project Swap showed that instructions had far less impact than the model itself: using aggressive instructions raised the score by only 0.02, while switching from Haiku to Opus raised it by 0.12. The report also said Anthropic is recruiting Conceptual Reasoning Fellows with legal backgrounds to spend four months testing Claude on judgment-intensive questions in law, philosophy, cognitive science, economics, and political science. The standards are still under discussion.

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Anthropic red team says it created a self-propagating AI worm

A report released this week by Anthropic's offensive research team claims to have created a malicious AI program that can spread autonomously among internet-connected smart TVs, splitting itself across 15 TVs and borrowing a little computing power from each to keep running. According to The Guardian's interpretation, the researchers believe a successful AI worm needs stronger capabilities on lower-powered devices, but that current trends suggest this could be feasible by the end of the year; a worm in an earlier paper from the University of Toronto infected a full-sized computer and spread faster. Security experts are divided: some stress that IoT devices such as smart TVs are slow to receive patches and their risks are hard to fix, while others argue the experiment moves slowly and its actions are predictable and interceptable, making it stunt hacking. At present, this claim appears only in the above report, with no further developments.

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Anthropic announces research on Mythos 5 autonomously designing quantum circuits

On October 17, 2026, Anthropic published a study: when given only a pure natural-language specification and an automated evaluator, Mythos 5 essentially without human intervention repeatedly submitted and improved quantum circuit designs in a closed loop, finding circuits that use fewer qubits and gates than the best previously published solutions, with some improvements reaching an order of magnitude. The elliptic-curve modular inversion design came from a single 53-hour continuous run, in which the model derived a reversible divsteps implementation that requires no storage of branch information and formally verified it with Lean; another effort reduced the gate count of the Reed-Solomon decoding step, the most expensive step in DQI, to about 1/12 of a construction previously made by Google. Anthropic also noted that the model was initially conservative and tended to follow known methods, which needed to be mitigated by requiring parallel exploration of multiple approaches and occasionally prompting it to broaden its search. Subsequent reports said the research came from the STEM Fellows program and gave differing formulations, such as a 17-fold reduction in gate count for the divsteps task.

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Replit CEO Amjad Masad confirmed during an onstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost, partnership, and performance reasons, and said GPT is now a better fit for Replit's workloads. He noted that Replit had been one of Anthropic's top five customers, and citing internal VBench and public benchmarks, said OpenAI's Sol and Astra models perform better at building vibe-coded apps from scratch. A subsequent TechCrunch AI report said Masad clarified that users can still access Anthropic models on the platform, but OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the default model. Masad also said the share of revenue from enterprise contracts rose from about 2% in 2025 to about 15% in 2026, with more than 50% of revenue now coming from B2B.

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Anthropic red team says it created a self-propagating AI worm

A report released this week by Anthropic's offensive research team claims to have created a malicious AI program that can spread autonomously among internet-connected smart TVs, splitting itself across 15 TVs and borrowing a little computing power from each to keep running. According to The Guardian's interpretation, the researchers believe a successful AI worm needs stronger capabilities on lower-powered devices, but that current trends suggest this could be feasible by the end of the year; a worm in an earlier paper from the University of Toronto infected a full-sized computer and spread faster. Security experts are divided: some stress that IoT devices such as smart TVs are slow to receive patches and their risks are hard to fix, while others argue the experiment moves slowly and its actions are predictable and interceptable, making it stunt hacking. At present, this claim appears only in the above report, with no further developments.

Anthropic co-founder proposes AI may drive US GDP to $44 trillion by 2030

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark proposed that, under certain conditions, AI could drive US GDP to $44 trillion by 2030. A report on October 18, 2026 stated that Clark, citing the company's internal model forecasts, said AI could boost US economic output by nearly 50%, bringing the potential scale of US GDP to $44 trillion; he also warned that growing evidence points to a "technological singularity," that AI development will outpace human control, and that the window to build safety safeguards is only "a few short years." A report on October 23 further stated that Clark, during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, cited internal model projections in which Anthropic's economic research set out three scenarios: a moderate scenario of $34.1 trillion, a significant scenario of $36.3 trillion, and a most aggressive scenario of $44.4 trillion, with the extreme scenario representing an increase of about 32.4% relative to a baseline without AI acceleration. The report noted that these results are not deterministic forecasts, and whether they materialize depends on technological progress, the pace of corporate adoption, and the actual effects of productivity gains.

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Anthropic report: AI agent work hours reach 6 times those of humans

Anthropic released a report disclosing changes in its internal use of AI agents and in its job structure. The report states that by August 2026, the working hours of interactive AI agents deployed by employees had reached 6 times those of human employees; in March 2026, the total agent work hours across the company exceeded human work hours for the first time. The report shows that the share of junior employees in technical departments fell from 21% in early 2025 to 14%, the share of junior technical job hiring fell from 27% to 9%, and the average number of code commits per engineer using coding agents reached 5 times the level of six months earlier. The report also states that its revenue per employee is 2 to 4 times that of Meta and Google during their high-growth periods, but Epoch AI cautions that the relevant estimates involve uncertainty.

Anthropic releases report disclosing changes in AI work hours and jobs

Anthropic released a report disclosing changes in its internal use of AI agents and in its job structure. The report states that by August 2026, the working hours of interactive AI agents deployed by employees had reached 6 times those of human employees; in March 2026, the total agent work hours across the company exceeded human work hours for the first time. The report shows that the share of junior employees in technical departments fell from 21% in early 2025 to 14%, the share of junior technical job hiring fell from 27% to 9%, and the average number of code commits per engineer using coding agents reached 5 times the level of six months earlier. The report also states that its revenue per employee is 2 to 4 times that of Meta and Google during their high-growth periods, but Epoch AI cautions that the relevant estimates involve uncertainty.

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Anthropic publishes research on Mythos 5 autonomously designing quantum circuits

On October 17, 2026, Anthropic published a study: when given only a pure natural-language specification and an automated evaluator, Mythos 5 essentially without human intervention repeatedly submitted and improved quantum circuit designs in a closed loop, finding circuits that use fewer qubits and gates than the best previously published solutions, with some improvements reaching an order of magnitude. The elliptic-curve modular inversion design came from a single 53-hour continuous run, in which the model derived a reversible divsteps implementation that requires no storage of branch information and formally verified it with Lean; another effort reduced the gate count of the Reed-Solomon decoding step, the most expensive step in DQI, to about 1/12 of a construction previously made by Google. Anthropic also noted that the model was initially conservative and tended to follow known methods, which needed to be mitigated by requiring parallel exploration of multiple approaches and occasionally prompting it to broaden its search. Subsequent reports said the research came from the STEM Fellows program and gave differing formulations, such as a 17-fold reduction in gate count for the divsteps task.

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