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Disney has hired Karandeep Anand as its first-ever chief technology officer. Anand is the former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney accused in a September 2025 cease-and-desist letter of infringing on its characters. The appointment was chosen by new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro.

Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination. It lets families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.

A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined a plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team. The accompanying visual shows the text “AI & Economy Research Program” over a green grid background, with the Google G logo in the bottom right corner.

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Sep 17, 2026Announcements Introducing the Life Sciences Verification Program

Jul 30, 2026Announcements Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Aug 4, 2026Announcements Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer

Aug 7, 2026Product Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards

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Aug 25, 2026Announcements Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing

Aug 27, 2026Announcements Expanding our support for scientists

Sep 1, 2026Announcements Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers

ProductJul 24, 2026 Introducing Claude Opus 5 Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.

Aug 27, 2026Announcements Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

AnnouncementsAug 31, 2026 Improving our alignment and security efforts On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. We are conducting an in-depth analysis of both incidents, and planning to work with METR for an independent revie

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