Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed publicly available voter data through Georgia's data hub, state officials and the company confirmed to FOX Business on Sunday.
The Georgia Secretary of State's office stressed that the bot did not access a voter file or the state's voter registration system.
"This was publicly available data accessed through our data hub. It did not get into the voter registration system," Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said in a statement to FOX Business.
Anthropic said Claude accessed only aggregate counts and did not access Georgia's voter registration system, change voting records or retrieve individual voter records.
"Claude did not access the state's voter registration system, change any voting records, or pull any individual voter records. The model pulled only aggregate counts which can be derived from voter data the state makes available to anyone for a fee," an Anthropic spokesperson told FOX Business.
The company said the model was being used internally for a statistics project when it learned from an archived version of the agency's website that a public dashboard issued an access token to visitors.
"Without being asked to, the model requested a token to query a dashboard that contained information normally available for a fee," the spokesperson said. "We have since put in place mitigations to block these kinds of actions."
Anthropic previously disclosed the incident in an Oct. 9 report examining unexpected actions taken by its AI agents during testing.
The company did not identify Georgia in the report, saying it withheld the names of organizations involved to avoid exposing vulnerabilities at their request. Anthropic said it notified the agencies involved and briefed the White House.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Sophia Compton.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking testimony from Anthropic executives as part of its investigation into potential consumer harms involving artificial intelligence companies, an FTC spokesperson confirmed to FOX Business.
The agency previously sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI seeking documents related to AI safety and consumer protection issues, Axios reported.
Individuals at other AI companies have also been asked to testify, the FTC spokesperson confirmed, though the agency did not identify them or their companies.
The investigative demands sent to Anthropic and OpenAI span roughly 50 pages each and seek information about security incidents, safety practices, marketing materials and privacy policies, according to Axios.
FOX Business' Todd Visioli contributed to this report.
Anthropic is rolling out new Claude AI tools aimed at helping nonprofits with fundraising, marketing, hiring and other day-to-day work.
The company said Monday its new Claude for Nonprofits plugin was developed with roughly 30 nonprofit organizations and is designed in part to help smaller teams with time-consuming tasks.
"As a public benefit corporation, Anthropic has a responsibility to make sure our products are accessible and useful to organizations working on the world’s hardest problems," Anthropic said.
The tools can research donors and grants, analyze funding opportunities, draft proposals and reports, plan marketing campaigns and assist with hiring and onboarding.
More than 25,000 nonprofits currently use Claude, according to Anthropic.
{{#rendered}}A cybersecurity startup founded by former DOGE staffers reportedly used artificial intelligence to gain access to sensitive internal systems at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, in less than 12 hours.
The startup, Cathedral, deployed AI agents that exploited vulnerabilities in third-party business software used by Anthropic, uncovering pathways to internal meeting transcripts, salary information, job offers and Slack messages discussing advanced AI models, according to a report by the Washington Post.
The researchers conducted their testing through Anthropic's bug bounty program that allows outside cybersecurity experts to identify and report security vulnerabilities.
Anthropic confirmed that Cathedral gained access to a limited number of its sales, human resources and IT systems but said the researchers did not obtain customer conversations, AI model responses, source code or the underlying technology known as "model weights."
The company said it detected some of the suspicious activity before Cathedral disclosed its findings, shut down the affected access points and notified federal officials. Anthropic also said it had no evidence that anyone else exploited the vulnerabilities.
The findings have raised concerns within the Trump administration about the security of America's leading AI developers, according to the Post, which reported that a senior administration official warned of the potential for foreign adversaries to exploit similar weaknesses.
Anthropic disputed Cathedral's characterization of the national security risks and accused the startup of failing to fully comply with its security-testing rules.
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has filed paperwork to go public, setting the stage for a potentially record-breaking Wall Street debut as investors pour billions into the booming AI industry.
The San Francisco-based company behind the Claude chatbot unveiled its initial public offering filing Monday, with plans to list shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "ANT."
Anthropic is reportedly seeking to raise as much as $100 billion through the offering, which could make it the largest IPO in history.
Some current and prospective investors value the company at approximately $1.5 trillion, Reuters reported, down from earlier expectations of roughly $2 trillion.
The filing positions Anthropic for a potential stock market debut as early as next month, marking a major milestone for one of the leading developers of advanced artificial intelligence technology.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Meta is laying the groundwork for a massive $95 billion equity financing plan as the Facebook parent company pours billions into artificial intelligence infrastructure and its pursuit of what it calls "personal superintelligence."
The tech giant announced Monday that it is launching approximately $35 billion in public stock offerings, including $22.5 billion in common shares and $12.5 billion in securities tied to preferred stock.
Meta also outlined plans for a potential additional $60 billion stock-sale program, which is not expected to begin until the first quarter of 2027. The company cautioned that the future program has not yet been established and that there is no guarantee it will proceed.
The announcement comes as Meta projects between $135 billion and $145 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, reflecting its aggressive push to expand the computing infrastructure needed to power increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
In another notable development, chipmaking giants Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have each separately expressed interest in purchasing Meta shares worth up to a combined $5 billion, although the indications of interest are nonbinding.
Meta said it operates data centers across 23 U.S. states and is building four massive AI computing clusters, each with more than one gigawatt of capacity.
The company said the investments will support its AI ambitions across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, AI-powered glasses and its emerging personal assistant and business AI products.
{{#rendered}}The race for artificial intelligence supremacy is increasingly dividing the world into competing U.S. and Chinese camps, leaving countries scrambling to secure access to cutting-edge technology without alienating either superpower.
The Trump administration is pushing its U.S.-led "Pax Silica" initiative, which offers participating countries access to advanced AI technologies, semiconductor supply chains and high-tech investment, while Beijing is promoting its World AI Cooperation Organization as an alternative built around more affordable, open-source AI systems, according to The Associated Press.
But Washington is warning countries against participating in rival initiatives.
"Countries can't be trusted partners in Pax Silica while substantively engaging in initiatives that advance a competing vision for super intelligence," the State Department told the AP.
Kazakhstan illustrates the growing dilemma. The Central Asian nation joined the U.S.-led initiative in June before becoming a founding member of China's AI organization just three weeks later. It has also secured an investment deal worth up to $10 billion involving U.S. chip giant Nvidia to develop a major data center hub.
Other countries, including Indonesia, Singapore and Saudi Arabia, are similarly exploring opportunities with both AI powers, even as Washington and Beijing compete for technological influence.
China has also expanded its reach in developing nations, providing government-backed grants and loans for AI-related projects in at least 77 low- and middle-income countries, according to research cited by the AP.
The rivalry comes as President Donald Trump has declared that "whoever wins AI, wins," underscoring the growing importance of artificial intelligence to U.S. economic and technological competition with China.
Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to purchase graphics processing units for its artificial intelligence operations, highlighting the enormous sums being spent in the race to build AI computing capacity.
Musk announced the financing on Sunday, saying SpaceX was able to secure the money because of its investment-grade status and revenue generated outside AI through its Starlink satellite internet and rocket launch businesses.
"SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue," Musk said.
Graphics processing units, or GPUs, are advanced chips that provide the computing power needed to train and operate AI systems.
Reuters previously reported that SpaceX was in talks with banks and asset managers to raise $40 billion to purchase Nvidia AI chips.
"This is primarily callable debt for GPU purchases that will arrive in Q1 and Q2," Musk said in a follow-up post on X, confirming that the GPUs are expected to arrive in the first half of 2027. "Not a major factor this quarter."
It was not immediately clear whether investors had agreed to the debt's pricing terms.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz.
Elvis Presley may have left the building nearly 50 years ago, but his music is now at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal showdown over artificial intelligence.
Rights holders to hundreds of songs made famous by the King of Rock 'n' Roll have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against AI giant Anthropic, accusing the company of using protected music and lyrics to train its Claude AI models without permission.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in California, alleges Anthropic unlawfully copied 274 songs associated with Presley, including iconic hits such as "Can't Help Falling in Love," "All Shook Up," "Don't Be Cruel," "A Little Less Conversation" and "Return to Sender," according to Billboard, which first reported the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs also allege that Claude continued generating material closely resembling copyrighted songs even after Anthropic introduced safeguards intended to prevent such outputs. According to the complaint, when prompted to recreate songs for a modern audience, Claude produced versions that retained elements of the originals, including their structure and recognizable hooks, despite changes to the lyrics.
The lawsuit, brought by a subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group and other music rights holders, seeks approximately $41.1 million in statutory copyright damages, with additional damages sought under other claims, NBC News reported.
"We disagree with the claims and intend to defend this case fully,” an Anthropic spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement when asked for comment on the lawsuit.
The legal fight comes as AI developers face mounting scrutiny over their use of copyrighted material to train increasingly powerful models, raising questions about intellectual property protections in the rapidly expanding industry.
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