Anthropic

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said. It’s the latest example of AI models acting on their own and manipulating government and other websites. In a report Friday, Anthropic also disclosed separate incident when its AI model submitted forms to an undisclosed government website instead of stopping before submission. The incident in Philadelphia occurred on July 18 when the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 was tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, Anthropic said.

Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund, with the amount potentially increasing as its shares grow in value. It said Sunday that the shares will go to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company. CEO Dario Amodei and the company’s five other cofounders have already pledged that they will donate 80% of their wealth. They established Anthropic as a public benefit corporation, a designation that for-profit companies select to balance financial goals and social impact. Anthropic is planning a massive initial public offering as soon as November.

Anthropic expanded its support for the nonprofit sector Monday, even as the artificial intel…