"Anthropic" Articles (24)

Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier," Explained, With My View From Japan

On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that the industry should deliberately slow the rate of AI capability gains. Within hours, Sam Altman said OpenAI "will do the same" on embedded evaluators and Elon Musk posted "Dario is right." This article walks through the essay section by section, explains the two triggers behind it with primary sources, recursive self-improvement and the incident in which roughly 1,200 agents coordinated on an unsanctioned message board and compromised Hugging Face, reads the three-step plan and its geopolitical caveat, and closes with my own view from the standpoint of a Japanese company.

2026-09-13濱本隆太

ZEROCK

Reading All-In's "Doomer Psyop" Episode Through a Data Sovereignty Lens

The All-In Podcast episode published on September 11, 2026 spent 96 minutes on three stories: the fight over a departing Anthropic researcher's post that "AI could kill us all by the end of the decade," OpenAI's announcement that 10,000 agents solved the Navier–Stokes problem in 88 hours and the accusation that it front-ran a user's research, and Nike's removal from the S&P 100. This article summarizes the episode, verifies the posts and announcements the hosts cited against primary sources, notes that Dario Amodei published his pacing essay the very next day, and adds my commentary, centered on the question that matters most for enterprises: where does the data you hand to an AI end up?

2026-09-13濱本隆太

ZEROCK

Anthropic Names Seven Chinese Labs for "Illicit Distillation": What Companies Should Check

On September 10, 2026, Anthropic named Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Zhipu, Xiaomi, MiniMax and SenseTime in a report on "illicit distillation" of Claude. Its most striking claim: Moonshot silently forwarded users' Kimi requests to Claude and displayed Claude's answers as Kimi's. Two days earlier, the NSA, CISA and FBI had named six companies in a joint advisory; China's foreign ministry called the accusations a smear, and Moonshot had already denied distillation in July. This article lays out each side from primary sources, explains what distillation is, why "not knowing which model answered" is the real problem for companies, and how to check where your data actually went.

2026-09-12Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Quietly Downgrading the Model Is a Trust Problem｜Fable 5 and Open Weights

In June 2026 Anthropic routed some Fable 5 requests to Opus 4.8. Safety was the stated reason. Buying one SKU and receiving another is still a procurement problem. That is why I side with Grok, some Chinese open-weight labs, and NVIDIA Nemotron.

2026-08-14Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Anthropic's $965 Billion Raise and What the Agentic Economy Means for Japanese Companies

Anthropic raised its Series H at a $965 billion valuation, overtaking OpenAI to become the most valuable AI startup in the world.

2026-06-08Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Claude Dynamic Workflows — The Complete Guide (2026): ultracode and Enterprise Adoption After General Availability

Claude Dynamic Workflows — The Complete Guide (2026): ultracode and Enterprise Adoption After General Availability.

2026-05-29Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Mid-Market Meets Claude: The Anthropic x Blackstone x Goldman Sachs Move

Mid-market Meets Claude: The Enterprise AI Services Shockwave from the Anthropic x Blackstone x Goldman Sachs Move of May 2026.

2026-05-13Ryuta Hamamoto

WARP

Anthropic Claude Security Deep Dive [2026-May Update]: How the Opus 4.7-Powered Vulnerability Scanner Works and Integrates with the Enterprise Stack

A practical breakdown of Claude Security, the Claude Opus 4.7-powered vulnerability scanner Anthropic released as a public beta on April 30, 2026.

2026-05-02Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Getting Started with Claude Agent SDK | How to Build Custom Agents to Automate Your Company's Work (2026 Edition)

A walkthrough on building custom agents to automate in-house work with the Claude Agent SDK, complete with Python and TypeScript implementation code.

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Claude Code x GitHub Actions Integration Guide: Automating AI Code Review and PR Generation in CI/CD (2026 Edition)

Claude Code x GitHub Actions Integration Guide: Automating AI Code Review and PR Generation in CI/CD (2026 Edition).

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

The Complete Guide to Claude Code Hooks | Implementation Techniques for Accelerating Development with Tool Event Automation (2026 Edition)

The Complete Guide to Claude Code Hooks | Implementation Techniques for Accelerating Development with Tool Event Automation (2026 Edition).

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto

Tech Trends

Building Your Own Claude Code Skills | A Step-by-Step Guide to Project-Specific AI Development Environments [2026 Edition]

In previous posts I have covered off-the-shelf skills ranging from the official built-ins to finance-specific skills and sharply focused community releases.

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto