Jack Clark, co-founder and head of Anthropic's Public Benefit Fund, speaks at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 16. Washington - A wave of American wealth created by artificial intelligence companies could produce some of the largest charitable sums since the era of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, raising questions about where the money goes. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has said it would commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a stake that could be worth around $100 billion if the company reaches the $2 trillion valuation investors are eyeing for a stock market debut expected as early as November. Combined with pledges by its seven co-founders to give away 80% of their equity and a program matching employees' donations, Anthropic says roughly a fifth of its shares will be dedicated to public-benefit purposes. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Then-U.S. cybersecurity soordinator Michael Daniel answers a question during an event in Washington in May 2014. Washington - Companies and government agencies rushed last week to patch two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the world's websites. The vulnerability to potential hackers was found by using a powerful model from OpenAI in one of the most high-profile demonstration of AI's cybercapabilities. Reporters spoke with Michael Daniel, president of the Cyber Threat Alliance and a onetime White House cybersecurity coordinator under former U.S. President Barack Obama, about what the episode means as AI tools find software flaws faster than ever. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

Tokyo and Washington are exploring the possibility of deploying U.S. military drones to a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Kyushu – the first time American drones would be sent to an SDF base. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Friday that the government was considering the temporary deployment of U.S. Air Force MQ-9 unmanned surveillance aircraft to the MSDF's Kanoya Air Base in Kagoshima Prefecture. Around seven MQ-9 drones would be deployed to the base, with about 100 U.S. personnel expected to operate and maintain the aircraft, according to media reports. The move to deploy the drones would be "part of efforts to improve the alliance's surveillance capabilities," Kishi told a news conference. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged to bolster Japan's alliance with the U.S. during a virtual summit earlier this month with U.S. President Joe Biden, and the deployment of U.S. drones to an SDF base could be part of that.