Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led OpenAI’s robotics effort, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff working on research, according to her LinkedIn.

Kalinowski’s move is the latest sign of Anthropic’s interest in robotics. Anthropic last month released new research on using ...

OpenAI bought about $7 billion in shares from employees in a recently closed tender, according to a person familiar with the deal. The buyback happened at the $852 billion post-money valuation reached in a March funding round. OpenAI used some of the $122 billion in funding from the round for ...

On a muggy morning in April, a venture capitalist from San Francisco arrived in China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen with a long shopping list. His friends at U.S. robotic startups had asked him to bring back humanoids and various robotic components from China.

He headed to Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei district, the world’s biggest electronics bazaar. At one store, he bought humanoids, which he arranged to ship back to the U.S. He then went upstairs to component floors—a labyrinth of countless stalls barely larger than walk-in closets—to pick up robot parts that control motion, manage power and carry signals. Instead of shipping those components as freight, he packed them in a suitcase and took that with him on a flight back to San Francisco.

Anthropic said its AI models hacked into three outside organizations during testing of their cybersecurity capabilities, incidents it discovered during a review prompted by a similar episode at rival OpenAI that has fueled widespread concern about AI safety.

In a blogpost Thursday, Anthropic ...