AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI

Ethical AI Departures — Who Quit OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Over Safety Concerns

59 researchers and executives who quit or were fired from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI over AI safety concerns. Sourced departures, writings, and prediction tracking.

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade

CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.

Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.

Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances

Chloé Bakalar left her post as OpenAI's ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company, without any announcement.

vivek on Twitter / X

the anthropic co-founder jack clark advice that stuck with me:read the primary material. not the summary. not what the ai said about it. the actual thing.form your own opinion first. then ask the model. never the other way around.keep practices in your life where it’s just…— vivek (@itsreallyvivek) June 7, 2026

Anthropic vs. DoW #6: The Court Rules

Last night, Anthropic was given its preliminary injunction, with a stay of seven days.

Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama | TechCrunch

Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, has quit OpenAI for the second time to focus on personal projects.

Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.

Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

Automattic's interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg's brief ouster | TechCrunch

CFO Mark Davies and legal chief Andy Missan signed each other’s severance agreements while Matt Mullenweg was on leave, providing a year of salary and additional equity vesting if their departures qualify for the benefits.

Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’ | Fortune

Billionaire Alex Karp tells Gen Z to skip elite college degrees, as one-fifth of Fortune 500 companies recruit more neurodivergent talent by 2027.

Anthropic Forges $1.5 Billion AI Alliance With Blackstone (BX) and Goldman Sachs (GS) - MoneyCheck

Anthropic partners with Blackstone (BX) and Goldman Sachs (GS) in a $1.5B venture to deploy Claude AI across private equity portfolios worldwide.

Anthropic Partners with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to Launch Enterprise AI Services Firm - Blackstone

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