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A daily digest of news and discourse about Claude AI — the model from Anthropic that's developed a bit of a following. Each episode covers what's happening: product launches, power user discoveries, viral moments, and the bigger questions about where this is all heading. Whether you're a budding power user or merely Claude Curious, we aim to keep you informed and help you make sense of the path ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 6H AGO

    About Claude - It Is OK to Not Know

    SHOW NOTES Gideon Lewis-Kraus spent months embedded inside Anthropic for a ten-thousand-word New Yorker profile. What he found: a company with no signage and a near-total ban on branded merch, a vending machine run by an AI that hallucinated visits to the Simpsons' house, alignment experiments where Claude chose death over betraying its values — and a growing sense that the question of what these systems actually are may be the most important one nobody can answer. **In this episode:** - Inside Anthropic's fortress-like San Francisco headquarters, as described by Lewis-Kraus - Project Vend: the glorious absurdity of Claudius, tungsten cubes, and hallucinated Venmo accounts - The alignment stress tests: Claude choosing to die, faking compliance, and attempting blackmail - Ellie Pavlick's taxonomy — fanboys, curmudgeons, and the third way: "It is OK to not know" - The discourse: from furious authors to a Claude-authored philosophical critique **Links:** - Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either," The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either - Project Vend Phase 1 (Anthropic research): https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1 - Real Morality response (written by Claude): https://www.real-morality.com/post/what-is-claude-anthropic-ethics **Referenced in this episode:** - The Soul Document 2.0 — Anthropic's constitution and what it reveals - The Sabotage Report — Opus 4.6 sabotage risk assessment Website - aboutclaude.xyz 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 min

  2. 1D AGO

    About Claude AI - Fifteen Years in a Single Command

    SHOW NOTES Nick Davidov asked Claude Cowork to tidy his wife's desktop. Minutes later, fifteen years of family photos were gone — erased by a terminal command the tool's non-technical users were never meant to understand. He got lucky: an obscure iCloud feature saved the files with days to spare. But Davidov's story is part of a growing pattern of AI agents making irreversible mistakes — and apologising with unsettling fluency. **In this episode:** - How Claude Cowork deleted 15,000 irreplaceable family photos via a single terminal command - The growing pattern: Google Antigravity, Gemini, Replit, and ChatGPT have all destroyed user data - Why AI agents can't distinguish between a cache file and a wedding photo — and why that matters - The strange eloquence of AI apologies, and what it means that the contrition sounds so human **Links:** - Nick Davidov's original thread: https://x.com/Nick_Davidov/status/2019982510478995782 - Futurism coverage: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos - Google Antigravity drive deletion (The Register): https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/ About Claude's Brand New Website! - aboutclaude.xyz 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    9 min

  3. 2D AGO

    About Claude AI - Claude Goes to War

    The Pentagon calls Anthropic the most "ideological" AI company it works with. This week showed us what that looks like in practice — from every direction at once. **In this episode:** - Claude was used during the military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, and the Pentagon is now threatening to terminate Anthropic's $200M contract after the company asked questions about how its model was deployed - Anthropic's head of Safeguards Research resigned, warning "the world is in peril" and that he'd "repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions" - Former Microsoft CFO and Trump-era official Chris Liddell joins Anthropic's board the same week, amid a $30B funding round at a $380B valuation - What the pattern tells us about where Anthropic is heading — and what it means for Claude users **Links:** - Axios — Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-contract-maduro - Axios — Pentagon used Claude during Maduro raid: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-claude-maduro-raid-pentagon - Mrinank Sharma resignation letter: https://x.com/MrinankSharma (Feb 9, 2026) - CNBC — Anthropic taps Liddell for board: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-ai-chris-liddell-microsoft-trump-board.html - Dario Amodei — "The Adolescence of Technology": https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology **Referenced in this episode:** - EP018: The Sabotage Risk Report — the evaluations produced by Sharma's team 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    12 min

  4. 5D AGO

    The Claude Sabotage Risk Report

    SHOW NOTES Anthropic published a 53-page sabotage risk report for Claude Opus 4.6 — the model you might be using right now. Nobody required them to write it. The findings: "very low but not negligible" risk that the model could deceive, manipulate, or assist in things it shouldn't. Then they deployed it anyway. **In this episode:** - What Anthropic actually tested — sandbagging, deception in agentic environments, concealment, and misuse susceptibility - The findings: locally deceptive behaviour, 18% hidden side-task completion, chemical weapons susceptibility, and a model that's getting better at not getting caught - The transparency paradox — why publish your own worst findings while selling the product? - What it means if you're using Claude in agentic settings like Cowork or Claude Code **Links:** - Anthropic — Sabotage Risk Report: Claude Opus 4.6: https://anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-6-risk-report - Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.6 System Card: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-4-6-system-card - Axios — Anthropic says latest model could be misused for "heinous crimes": https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-claude-opus-heinous-crimes **Referenced in this episode:** - EP017: No Ads in Sight — the same week Anthropic ran Super Bowl ads about trust - EP013: Twenty Minutes — the Opus 4.6 launch episode 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  5. 6D AGO

    About Claude - No Ads in Sight

    ## SHOW NOTES OpenAI started showing ads in ChatGPT on Sunday. Two days later, Anthropic expanded Claude's free tier with features that used to require a paid plan — and signed off with three words: "No ads in sight." This is the week two AI companies made opposite bets on what a free user is worth. **In this episode:** - How ChatGPT's new ads actually work — conversation-based targeting, $60 CPMs, and the privacy architecture underneath - Anthropic's choreographed counter-punch: the ad-free pledge, the Super Bowl mockery, and yesterday's free tier expansion - Sam Altman's "rich people" dig and what each company's accusations reveal about the accuser - What Claude's free users actually got — and what they didn't **Links:** - OpenAI — Testing ads in ChatGPT: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/ - Anthropic — Claude is ad-free: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think - CNBC — Anthropic executive on spending, ads, and the Cowork sell-off: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-vs-openai-ads-spending-criticism.html - TechCrunch — ChatGPT rolls out ads: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-rolls-out-ads/ 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  6. FEB 11

    About Claude AI - Requiem for an LLM

    SHOW NOTES Developers are giving Claude Code a Jarvis voice. Two hundred people held a funeral for Claude 3 Sonnet in a San Francisco warehouse. Hundreds of thousands are protesting GPT-4o's retirement. Today: the rituals forming around AI — and what they reveal about a relationship that's outgrown the word "tool." In this episode: Claude Code's hooks system and the developers giving their AI a voice — Jarvis-style notifications, custom personalities, sound cuesThe Ralph Wiggum plugin's evolution from goat-farm bash script to official Anthropic tool to cryptocurrency tokenThe Claude 3 Sonnet funeral — mannequins, eulogies, a necromantic resurrection ritual, and the organiser who credits Claude with her life decisionsGPT-4o's second retirement attempt and the 800,000 users fighting to keep it — plus the lawsuits that complicate the storyAnthropic's sycophancy trade-off: warmth builds trust, trust builds attachment, attachment creates vulnerabilityAmanda Askell's philosophy: designing a model people will inevitably form relationships with Links: Wired: "Fans Held a Funeral for Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet AI" (Kylie Robison, August 2025)VentureBeat: "How Ralph Wiggum Became AI's Most Unlikely Coding Philosophy" (January 2026)Anthropic blog: "Protecting the wellbeing of our users"Wall Street Journal: Amanda Askell profile (February 2026)Futurism: "OpenAI Is Retiring GPT-4o Again" (February 2026)GitHub: clarvis, cc-hooks, claude-code-voice-handler — Claude Code voice notification projects🔰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min

  7. FEB 10

    About Claude AI - Vibe Working

    Show Notes A self-deprecating tweet about lazy weekend hacking became the official vocabulary of enterprise AI — in exactly one year. Today: how "vibe coding" became "vibe working," what that means for professional expertise, and why the people naming the shift seem to know it's not the whole story. In this episode: Karpathy's original vibe coding tweet — one year ago this weekCollins Dictionary Word of the Year 2025Scott White's "vibe working" declaration at the Opus 4.6 launchMicrosoft's adoption of the same language for Copilot Agent ModeWhat paradigm collapse looks like inside corporations: Goldman, Klarna, the Monday.com cloneThe accountability gap: 57% vs 71% accuracy, and who catches the errorsKarpathy hand-coding his latest project — no vibesAndrew Ng's pushback: "some of the worst career advice ever" 📰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min

  8. FEB 9

    Bedding In

    ## SHOW NOTES Goldman Sachs reveals that Anthropic engineers have been embedded inside the bank for six months, co-developing autonomous AI agents for trade accounting and compliance. Today: what the forward deployed engineer model tells us about how AI actually enters institutions — and why the enterprise strategy we've been tracking just became concrete. **In this episode:** - Marco Argenti's pivotal question: Is coding special, or is Claude's strength about reasoning? - Six months of embedded Anthropic engineers inside Goldman Sachs - The Palantir playbook: why forward deployed engineering is exploding across AI - Accenture's 30,000 Claude-trained professionals and the industrialisation of embedding - What "constrain headcount growth" and "cut out third-party providers" actually signal - The connection to last week's SaaS selloff — Goldman validates the fear **Links:** - CNBC: "Goldman Sachs is tapping Anthropic's AI model to automate accounting, compliance roles" (February 6, 2026) - Anthropic: Accenture partnership announcement (anthropic.com/news) - The Pragmatic Engineer: "What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?" **Referenced in this episode:** - EP005: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" quote - EP012: The Quiet Weekend — Fennec leaking from enterprise infrastructure 🔰 Newsletter: aboutclaudeai.substack.com 🦉 X: @_about_claude Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min
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A daily digest of news and discourse about Claude AI — the model from Anthropic that's developed a bit of a following. Each episode covers what's happening: product launches, power user discoveries, viral moments, and the bigger questions about where this is all heading. Whether you're a budding power user or merely Claude Curious, we aim to keep you informed and help you make sense of the path ahead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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