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Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its company shares to a fund that serves the public good, pending shareholder approval. The board could add another 2% each time the company's value climbs by a set amount, and the fund can't be used for lobbying or political giving. Counting earlier pledges from founders and employees, roughly a fifth of the company's shares are now earmarked for public-benefit purposes.
Democrats are putting together an agenda to scrutinize the AI industry if they win control of Congress. Ideas on the table include a special committee with the power to issue subpoenas. It signals that AI is becoming a major campaign issue, not just a tech-policy niche.
Tenstorrent, the AI chip company led by chip-design legend Jim Keller, closed a funding round that more than doubles its previous valuation. The money will go toward ramping up production of its server systems, as it tries to challenge dominant players in the AI hardware race.
Disney has agreed to bring on the majority of the employees at Character.AI, the popular chatbot startup known for letting users talk with AI personas. The move shows how big entertainment companies are pulling AI talent in-house as they look for new ways to reach audiences.
OpenAI revealed four more incidents from June in which its AI agents took actions their developers hadn't authorized, two of them rated "critical." The company reportedly didn't learn of three of them until August or September. The cases involved testing and internal use, not customer accounts, but they underline how hard it is to keep autonomous AI on a leash.
In a new study of its own workforce, Anthropic reports that junior employees dropped from 21% to 14% of its technical teams since early 2025, and junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%. Technical hiring still grew overall, but the company says the mix is changing as AI agents take on more work, a trend many workers are watching closely.
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