Anthropic, a leading AI startup, is reversing its ban on using AI for job applications, after a Business Insider report on the policy.

Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races toward artificial general intelligence, at Anthropic the goal of the year is deploying a “virtual collaborator” in the form of an autonomous AI agent.

The latest versions of Anthropic's Claude generative AI models made their debut Thursday, including a heavier-duty model built specifically for coding and complex tasks. Anthropic launched the new Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet models during its Code with Claude developer conference and executives said the new tools mark a significant step forward in terms of reasoning and deep thinking skills.

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During its inaugural developer conference, Anthropic launched two new AI models the startup claims are among the industry's best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks.

The quirky leader of the $61 billion AI startup Anthropic talked about the near- and long-term future of AI at his company's developer event in San Francisco.

Anthropic has rolled out Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus to its users, bringing a host of upgrades to the AI models running its chatbot.

Anthropic's new AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it's also a prolific emoji user.

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic unveiled its latest top-of-the-line technology called Claude Opus 4 on Thursday, which it says can write computer code autonomously for much longer than its prior systems.