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Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Claude 4, has unwanted side effects: The AI can report you to authorities and the press.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNAnthropic’s most powerful AI tried blackmailing engineers to avoid shutdownAnthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model did something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi film. It frequently tried to blackmail developers when they threatened to replace it with a new AI during its pre-release testing.
Anthropic has announced the release of its latest AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, which aim to support a wider range of professional and academic tasks beyond code generation. According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 4 is optimized for extended, focused sessions that involve complex reasoning, context retention and tool use.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is about to get a big thinking upgrade, as the AI will be able to go back to reasoning when the task demands it.
When Anthropic’s older Claude model played Pokémon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying nonplayer characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.
Claude excels at embodying specific viewpoints, whether that’s a journal reader, a particular poet’s sensibility, or even a character within a story. And the key is framing your request with intention.