Anthropic has promoted Sasha de Marigny to chief communications officer, Axios is first to report. Why it matters: De Marigny's team is working to differentiate Anthropic from its AI competitors. The big picture: CEO Dario Amodei is positioning himself as an AI realist,

Anthropic launched two new AI courses on Coursera: one for developers and one for working professionals looking to learn how to use Claude.

During a simulation in which Anthropic's AI, Claude, was told it was running a vending machine, it decided it was being scammed, "panicked" and tried to contact the FBI's Cyber Crimes Division.

The latest campaign is a step up. But although the AI systems co-opted by GTG-1002 were largely autonomous, they were not flawless in their execution. The hacking group had to contend with Claude overstating its abilities, fabricating data and occasionally claiming credit for stealing information it had actually found on the public internet.

On Tuesday, Microsoft and Nvidia announced plans to invest in Anthropic under a new partnership that includes a $30 billion commitment by the Claude maker to use Microsoft’s cloud services. Nvidia will commit up to $10 billion to Anthropic and Microsoft up to $5 billion, with both companies investing in Anthropic’s next funding round.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei centered his artificial intelligence brand around safety and transparency. He's determined to figure out the ways AI can be misused to try to mitigate the risks as best Anthropic can.

Anthropic's latest funding wave has pushed the artificial intelligence startup into a valuation tier usually reserved for the largest consumer-tech platforms, with investors now said to be pricing the company at roughly 350 billion dollars.

Rumors have been swirling for months that an AI industry pioneer had its sights set on an empty office building in the shadow of San Francisco's Salesforce Park. Those rumors have been substantiated.