Sources: Altera is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming weeks; the offering could raise over $2B, with a listing as early as this year (Reuters)

Anthropic’s new threat-intelligence report details how the company intercepted multiple attempts to weaponize its Claude model for cyberattacks, influence campaigns, surveillance, biological-weapon research, scams and illicit distillation, shutting down the work when its intent could not be verified. AI researcher Jacob Coxon left Anthropic two months before his equity vested, citing safety concerns and urging industry-wide, international coordination to curb recursive self-improvement.