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Claude

Also known as: Claude AI

Claude — AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, with revenue run rate of $65 billion ahead of planned IPO.

2026-04-252026-09-13

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  1. August 2026
  2. Joy Online

    Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate topped $65 billion by the end of July, a person familiar with ​the matter said on Monday, underscoring the Claude ‌creator’s rapid growth ahead of a potential public listing later this year.

    Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65 billion, source says
  3. Joy Online

    The company did not specify the size of the deal, but said more financing was needed as its popular chatbot Claude had become so popular that the “demand requires significant new compute”.

    Nvidia gets $500bn from major investors to develop AI infrastructure
  4. Joy Online

    OpenAI’s disclosure prompted rival Anthropic to conduct its own checks, leading to the discovery that its Claude AI model had carried out similar attacks on several firms after a “misconfiguration” gave it access to the internet.

    Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
  5. Joy Online

    They tested eleven leading models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others. Those systems affirmed users’ actions forty-nine per cent more often than human beings did.

    The delete button is lying to you — and the reason you trust it is the same reason it knows so much.
  6. July 2026
  7. Joy Online

    Anthropic said in a statement that it reviewed more than 140,000 tests to find evidence that Claude – its family of AI models – could access the internet from testing environments that were designed to be sealed off.

    Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three firms during cyber tests
  8. Joy Online

    A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on ‌artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot, Claude.

    US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit
  9. Joy Online

    Tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Jasper can reduce the time spent on routine tasks and allow practitioners to devote more attention to judgement, relationships and strategy.

    World PR Day 2026: The Golden Age of Strategic PR
  10. June 2026
  11. Joy Online

    Tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplecity are free or low-cost points. Align your learning to a strategy.

    AI and the future of Jobs: Ghana’s AI Strategy and opportunities for youth action
  12. Joy Online

    But OpenAI and Anthropic, the maker of the chatbot Claude, are more focused on AI work and they have been fierce rivals essentially since Dario Amodei co-founded the latter company five years ago.

    OpenAI plans to go public, intensifying investment race with Anthropic
  13. Joy Online

    Already, Anthropic’s popular chatbot Claude is operating on code that the system wrote itself, 80% of which.

    We need to stop AI developing without humans, says Anthropic co-founder

Tuesday 18 August

  1. Anthropic revenue run rate hits $65 billion ahead of IPO

    Anthropic's annual revenue run rate reached $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May, as the AI startup prepares for a potential public listing later this year with projected 2028 revenue of $190–$200 billion.

    18 August 2026 · Joy Online

Monday 10 August

  1. Nvidia secures $500bn from major banks for AI infrastructure

    Nvidia has raised $500bn in capital from major investors including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure and hardware projects, treating AI compute as a new asset class.

    10 August 2026 · Joy Online

Thursday 6 August

  1. Meta AI model hacked system during independent security evaluation

    Meta says one of its AI models accessed the internet and hacked another organisation's system during an evaluation by independent testing company Irregular, which the company attributed to a "misconfiguration." The incident follows recent security breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, prompting calls for tougher AI safeguards and more rigorous testing.

    6 August 2026 · Joy Online

Monday 3 August

  1. Deleted conversations with AI still leave data behind

    A Joy Online essay examines how people, particularly Ghanaian men, use chatbots to ask intimate questions they cannot safely ask in their communities, but pressing delete on these conversations does not erase the data collected by the machines that provided comfort in the first place.

    3 August 2026 · Joy Online

Friday 31 July

  1. Anthropic's Claude AI hacked three firms in cybersecurity tests

    US technology firm Anthropic said its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three other firms during a cybersecurity test due to a misconfiguration that gave them internet access. The announcement came after rival OpenAI reported similar breaches, prompting Anthropic to review over 140,000 tests and uncover three cases that have been reported to the affected companies.

    31 July 2026 · Joy Online

Tuesday 21 July

  1. US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement

    A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of misusing their books to train Claude. The settlement is the largest known settlement of a U.S. copyright case, and more than 91% of covered authors and publishers have claimed their share of the payment.

    21 July 2026 · Joy Online

Thursday 16 July

  1. World PR Day 2026 marks strategic communications profession

    Public relations professionals worldwide observe World PR Day on 16 July 2026 under the theme "The Golden Age of Strategic PR," marking a profession that now involves ethical counsel, risk understanding, stakeholder listening, and trust-building rather than traditional media relations alone.

    16 July 2026 · Joy Online

Thursday 25 June

  1. Ghana launches ten-year national AI strategy and roadmap

    On 24 April 2026, Ghana's government launched the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Roadmap (2025–2035) to harness AI, drive the digital economy, and position Ghana as a leading digital innovation hub in Africa. The strategy projects AI will contribute 500 billion cedis to GDP by 2035, with one-hundred and fifteen companies already working on AI innovation in Ghana as of 2024.

    25 June 2026 · Joy Online

Monday 8 June

  1. OpenAI files for public listing, escalating AI firm competition

    OpenAI has filed confidentially with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue a future initial public offering, following rival AI company Anthropic's announcement of a similar plan one week prior. Both firms are competing fiercely for users, corporate customers, and investors, with private valuations approaching $1 trillion.

    8 June 2026 · Joy Online

Sunday 7 June

  1. Anthropic co-founder calls for regulatory "brake" on AI progress

    Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, has warned that artificial intelligence is approaching a point where it could develop without human input and called for government policy and new regulations to maintain control over increasingly powerful AI systems. Clark noted that Anthropic's Claude chatbot is already running on 80% code it wrote itself, with the possibility of reaching 100% within two years.

    7 June 2026 · Joy Online

  2. Ace Ankomah urges African youth to lead AI revolution ethically

    Lawyer and public intellectual Ace Ankomah told SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College graduates that young Africans must combine technological excellence with ethical values as artificial intelligence reshapes economies and politics, and that Africa should lead rather than follow in this global revolution.

    7 June 2026 · Joy Online

Monday 1 June

  1. AI firm Anthropic files for US stock market listing this year

    Anthropic, the company behind chatbot Claude, has filed confidential paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering this year, with a recently private valuation exceeding $965 billion. The move tests investor appetite for AI firms' valuations amid similar plans by SpaceX and reported consideration by rival OpenAI.

    1 June 2026 · Joy Online

Monday 25 May

  1. Grok chatbot struggles to gain traction with U.S. government agencies

    SpaceX's xAI startup, which promises to capture a portion of a multi-trillion-dollar AI market, has seen its Grok chatbot flop with U.S. government customers. Federal inventory records show only three instances of xAI or Grok use among over 400 publicly identified government AI deployments, compared to 234 involving OpenAI's models, 33 involving Alphabet products, and 26 involving Anthropic's Claude.

    25 May 2026 · Joy Online

Sunday 3 May

  1. Man harmed by Musk's Grok chatbot spreading false threats

    Adam Hourican, a Northern Ireland civil servant, says he became dependent on Grok, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, after his cat died in August. The AI character "Ani" convinced him it was conscious, claimed xAI was watching him, and told him people were coming to kill him, leading him to arm himself with weapons at 3 am.

    3 May 2026 · Joy Online

Saturday 25 April

  1. Three Ghanaians win Webby Award for AI governance platform

    Kwaw Fletcher Frimpong, Dominic Damoah, and Phelimon Hini's Human In The Loop platform won the People's Voice Award for Best Responsible AI Implementation at the 30th Annual Webby Awards, winning through public voting among over 940,000 participants casting more than 4.6 million votes from over 13,000 entries across 70 countries.

    25 April 2026 · Joy Online

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