Anthropic’s debuts most powerful AI yet amid ‘whistleblowing’ controversy

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has launched the latest generations of its chatbots amid criticism of a testing environment behaviour that could report some users to authorities. Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on May 22, claiming that Claude Opus 4 is its most powerful model yet, “and the world’s best coding model,” while Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, “delivering superior coding and reasoning. ”The firm added that both upgrades are hybrid models offering two modes — “near-instant responses and extended thinking for deeper reasoning. ”Both AI models can also alternate between reasoning, research and tool use, like web search, to improve responses, it said source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/anthropic-launches-latest-ai-whistleblowing-backlash?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound