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Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Zerbe (born May 20, 1936, Long Beach, California) is an American character actor; Emmy winner 1976 as Lt. K.C. Trench on Harry O, known for The Omega Man, Papillon, Licence to Kill, and the Matrix sequels.

Anthopleura xanthogrammica

Anthopleura xanthogrammica, the giant green anemone (Actinia xanthogrammica), a large green symbiotic-algae sea anemone of northeastern Pacific tide pools, feeding on mussels and urchins, with acrorhagi and Anthopleurin toxins.

Anthoxanthum

Anthoxanthum (vernal grasses, sweet vernal grass), a Poaceae genus published by Linnaeus in 1753, type species A. odoratum; about 52 species of aromatic temperate and tropical-mountain grasses with 3-flowered spikelets, including the invasive sweet vernal grass.

Anthoxanthum odoratum

Anthoxanthum odoratum, sweet vernal grass or vanilla grass, is a coumarin-scented perennial Poaceae grass native from Macaronesia and Europe to Mongolia and NW Africa, tetraploid, early-flowering, and naturalized as a low-yielding forage grass and weed worldwide.

Anthozoa

Anthozoa (Ehrenberg, 1834) is a cnidarian group of sea anemones and corals, polyp-only with no medusa stage, about 6,100 species, subdivided into Octocorallia, Hexacorallia, and Ceriantharia; ranked class or subphylum depending on authority.

Anthracene

Anthracene is a tricyclic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, C₁₄H₁₀, of three linearly fused benzene rings, a colorless solid with blue fluorescence first isolated from coal tar in 1832.

Anthracite

Anthracite, also called hard coal, is the highest rank of coal, hard and lustrous with about 80 percent fixed carbon, mined mostly in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Anthracite (TV series)

Anthracite (Anthracite : le mystère de la secte des Écrins) is a 2024 French Netflix thriller miniseries, six episodes, created by Fanny Robert, Maxime Berthemy, and Mehdi Ouahab, starring Hatik, Noémie Schmidt, and Camille Lou, inspired by the Order of the Solar Temple.

Anthracoceras

Anthracoceras is an extinct genus of small, thin-shelled goniatite ammonoids that lived from the Late Devonian into the Carboniferous and marks marine bands in the coal measures of western Europe.

Anthracothorax

Anthracothorax (mangos) is a genus of hummingbirds, family Trochilidae, described by F. Boie in 1831, with seven species from the Caribbean and tropical mainland Americas; molecular phylogenies nest Eulampis within it, making the genus paraphyletic.

Anthracycline

Anthracyclines (daunorubicin, doxorubicin, epirubicin) are Streptomyces-derived antitumor antibiotics that intercalate DNA and poison topoisomerase II; used for leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, limited by cumulative cardiotoxicity.

Anthralin

Anthralin, also known as dithranol, is a synthetic anthracene derivative used topically to treat psoriasis, first synthesized in 1916 as a substitute for chrysarobin.

Anthranilate synthase component I, TrpE-like, bacterial

TrpE-like bacterial anthranilate synthase component I (IPR005257): the alpha subunit of anthranilate synthase (EC 4.1.3.27), which with TrpG converts chorismate to anthranilate in tryptophan biosynthesis and is feedback-inhibited by tryptophan.

Anthranilic acid

Anthranilic acid, or 2-aminobenzoic acid, is an aromatic acid with an amino group on benzoic acid, central to tryptophan biosynthesis and used in dyes and drugs.

Anthraquinone

Anthraquinone, also called 9,10-anthraquinone or anthracene-9,10-dione, is an aromatic organic compound of three fused benzene rings, parent of derivatives used as dyes, drugs, and industrial chemicals.

Anthrax

Anthrax, also known as splenic fever, is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which primarily affects herbivorous livestock and infects humans through contact.

Anthrax (American band)

Anthrax (American band), New York thrash metal band founded July 18, 1981 by Scott Ian and Dan Lilker; one of the Big Four with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth; known for Among the Living (1987) and rap-metal crossovers like Bring the Noise with Public Enemy.

Anthrax discography

Anthrax discography: the New York thrash metal band's twelve studio albums from Fistful of Metal (1984) to Cursum Perficio (2026), spanning the Neil Turbin-free Belladonna, John Bush, and Belladonna-return vocal eras.

Anthribidae

Anthribidae, the fungus weevils (Billberg, 1820), is a primitive-weevil family of Curculionoidea with straight antennae, over 5,100 species, mainly fungus-feeding larvae, and Nemonychidae as its sister family.

Anthriscus

Anthriscus (chervils, beakchervils) is a conserved Apiaceae genus from Persoon (1805), native from temperate Eurasia to tropical African mountains; about 80 named species but roughly 9-14 accepted, including garden chervil (A. cerefolium) and cow parsley (A. sylvestris).

Anthriscus sylvestris

Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, or keck, is a biennial or perennial herb in the carrot family native to temperate Eurasia, bearing white flower umbels in late spring.

Anthrobots

Anthrobots are multicellular biological robots self-assembled from human airway cells at Tufts University in 2023, able to move and induce neural tissue repair in dishes.

Anthropic

Anthropic, also known as Anthropic PBC, is an American AI safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, best known for the Claude family of large language models.

Anthropic accusation of DeepSeek training data harvesting

In February 2026, Anthropic accused the Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with Claude.

Anthropic Agent Skills

Anthropic Agent Skills, also known as Agent Skills, are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that AI agents load on demand, introduced across Claude products in October 2025.

Anthropic Bias

Anthropic Bias is a 2002 book by the philosopher Nick Bostrom that develops a formal theory of reasoning under observation selection effects, replacing vague anthropic principles with the Self-Sampling Assumption.

Anthropic compute commitments

Anthropic compute commitments are the multi-year contracts through which Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, reserved datacenter capacity and chips from vendors including Amazon and Google, totaling roughly $517 billion by September 2026.

Anthropic computer use

Anthropic computer use is a capability introduced by Anthropic in October 2024 that lets the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model operate a computer's interface directly, using screenshots, clicks, and typed text.

Anthropic HH-RedTeam dataset

The Anthropic HH-RedTeam dataset is a public collection of 38,961 human-written red team attacks on language models, collected by Anthropic in 2022 and released under an MIT license.

Anthropic HH-RLHF dataset

The Anthropic HH-RLHF dataset ("helpful and harmless RLHF") is a collection of roughly 162,000 human preference pairs over AI assistant responses, released by Anthropic in April 2022.