Netflix chairman Reed Hastings joined the board of directors of Anthropic, an AI company whose backers include Amazon.

The new Claude 4 series represents a step forward in Anthropics pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company said the upgrades include improved long-term memory, better code generation,

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims AI will enable one person to run billion dollar companies by 2026, reshaping the business landscape.

Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races toward artificial general intelligence, at Anthropic the goal of the year is deploying a “virtual collaborator” in the form of an autonomous AI agent.

Anthropic launched its latest Claude generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models on Thursday, claiming to set new standards for reasoning but also