Just watched the @netflix Instadocs about the @OpenAI cyberattack on @huggingface. Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode. I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong. Also, they didn’t mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, how closed-model safeguards blocked our defensive work, or how we defended ourselves with AI using an open model. And that we still lack a lot of information and transparency, including full agent traces and that companies need to remain accountable for what their agents do. It ends up being a fun sci-fi movie though!

We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion. In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding. In the post below, we share more details about our new fund. anthropic.com/news/public-be…

MI5 is finally saying out loud what many of us have been warning about for years. Sir Ken McCallum: more than 50 arrests in Iran-linked operations in the UK over the past year. Much of that aggression aimed squarely at British Jewish communities. A spring wave of arson and sabotage against Jewish sites here and across Europe. Iran subcontracting its violence through criminal proxies—and now shifting toward harder targets as well. And on top of that: a 19-year-old Norwegian footballer was just jailed for 20 years after agreeing to carry out a hit for the Foxtrot network—an Iran-backed Swedish gang sanctioned by the UK and US precisely because it orchestrates violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe. He flew in with guns and ammunition. The intended victim remains unknown. This is not distant foreign policy but is the Islamic Republic targeting Jews on British soil. The warning signs were everywhere after October 7—the marches, the chants, the normalization, the weak official responses that treated Jew-hatred as just another opinion. Many of us said the consequences would not stay on campuses or in the streets. They haven’t. No more pretending this is someone else’s problem. The threat is real, it is state-directed through proxies, and it is aimed at Jews. @andyburnham: Protect British Jews.