Anthropic’s call to slow down AI development to keep humans safe has dominated the news cycle and drew similar calls from the leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft and others (and subtle disagreement from Mark Zuckerberg). 

But Mustafa Suleyman, who runs Microsoft’s AI model development, has a warning about Anthropic itself. 

Suleyman, who co-founded DeepMind (now part of Google), says Anthropic’s approach of treating its Claude models as if they were sentient, similar to humans, could produce a dangerous outcome. He called out Anthropic’s Claude Constitution, a document that treats the model as an intelligent entity and offers guidelines for how it should handle ethical dilemmas. Suleyman said that by incorporating the document into its training, Anthropic could make Claude harder to control. 

Suleyman’s concerns emerged when Anthropic updated the constitution at the start of this year to leave room for the possibility that Claude has some sort of “consciousness” or “moral status,” a change from the original document.

Microsoft said Tuesday it will raise its quarterly dividend to 98 cents per share, up from 91 cents, beginning in December. The company previously raised its dividend by 10% a year ago. Microsoft’s stock was roughly flat in after hours trading.

The company’s move to return more cash to ...

Microsoft is planning to more than triple the size of its Azure cloud unit’s data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from 12 gigawatts today, Bloomberg reported Thursday. A gigawatt of capacity would be able to power a city the size of San Francisco.

The planned buildout reflects ...

Microsoft is planning to significantly increase production of its internally designed next-generation AI chips next year in hopes of persuading big cloud customers like Anthropic to use them, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans.

That’s despite slow uptake of the current generation of Microsoft-designed chips, known as the Maia 200. Microsoft plans to publicly unveil its new Maia 300 chip this fall, potentially as soon as next month, one of the people said. The cloud giant has been in talks with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to secure manufacturing capacity for over 300,000 of the chips for delivery in 2027, the second person said—an order of magnitude above the tens of thousands of Maia 200 chips Microsoft has produced so far.