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Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer's affair to avoid being shut down


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Released on Thursday, Anthropic's Claude 4 Opus and Claude Sonnet 4 are the company's most powerful models yet. Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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