We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

Anthropic needs to make Makima real

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…

Engage in discourse

We spoke with senior Defense official Emil Michael on Friday, who told us that the Trump administration has a range of options, including export controls, if AI companies do not cooperate with the government. He also told us: - His public feud with Anthropic will not get in the way of his new duties as Super Intelligence Task Force vice chair, where he is tasked with working with AI companies to develop an incident reporting framework ("If that means I’m talking to someone who’s suing me, well then I’m talking to them") - The Defense Department will continue to bar Anthropic as long as it has a "moral principle" embedded in its software that allows its models to exert control over humans - Frontier labs are acting like "drunk drivers" who demand someone else pull them over when they call for stricter government regulation - The Office of Strategic Capital is exploring further investment into microelectronics and drone part companies - He's worried about Chinese open-source dominance and foreign employees with split loyalities but doesn't think the answer is more government control - He hasn't seen any reports on whether AI-enabled software failures from Palantir contributed to a U.S. missile strike on Iran in February that killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children ("I’m not as online as I used to be.") W/ @amir. You can read the full interview (and find a link to the video) here: theinformation.com/articles/…

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