"Last month, at the 33rd annual DEF CON, the world's largest hacker convention in Las Vegas, Anthropic researcher Keane Lucas took the stage. A former U.S. Air Force captain with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon, Lucas wasn't there to unveil flashy cybersecurity exploits. Instead, he showed how Claude, Anthropic's family of large language models, has quietly outperformed many human competitors in hacking contests - the kind used to train and test cybersecurity skills in a safe, legal environment."
"Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by ex-OpenAI employees, has cast itself as a safety-first lab convinced that unchecked models could pose "catastrophic risks." But it is also one of the fastest-growing technology companies in history: This week Anthropic announced it has raised a fresh $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation and had passed $5 billion in run-rate revenue."
Keane Lucas, an Anthropic researcher and former U.S. Air Force captain with a Ph.D., demonstrated Claude's performance in simulated hacking contests, showing models often outperform many human competitors while also producing humorous failures such as drifting into security philosophy or inventing fake "flags". The demonstrations showed that AI agents are fast, leverage autonomy and tools effectively, and can be repurposed by criminal hackers or state actors, creating urgent defensive needs. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team of roughly 15 researchers stress-tests advanced systems for misuse across biology, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems. Anthropic frames itself as safety-first while scaling rapidly, including a $13 billion raise and a $183 billion valuation.
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