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Anthropic Interpretability team

The Anthropic Interpretability team is the research group at AI company Anthropic studying how large language models work internally, known for the superposition hypothesis and sparse-autoencoder feature research.

Anthropic IPO filing

Anthropic's IPO filing is the confidential draft S-1 submitted to the SEC on June 1, 2026, seeking up to $100 billion at a roughly $2 trillion valuation.

Anthropic principle

The anthropic principle is a rule in cosmology stating that what we observe must be compatible with our existence as observers, introduced by Brandon Carter in 1973.

Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy

The Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), effective September 2023, ties Anthropic's training and deployment decisions to capability thresholds, using AI Safety Levels modeled on biosafety standards.

Anthropic Series F

The Anthropic Series F was a venture funding round that raised $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation for the AI lab Anthropic in September 2025.

Anthropic Series G

The Anthropic Series G was a $30 billion private funding round announced in February 2026, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion, the second-largest venture financing on record at the time.

Anthropic–Google Cloud TPU deal

The Anthropic–Google Cloud TPU deal is an October 2025 agreement giving Anthropic access to up to one million Google TPU chips, worth tens of billions of dollars.

Anthropic–Google TPU compute deal

The Anthropic–Google TPU compute deal, beginning in October 2025, gives AI company Anthropic access to up to one million Google TPUs and gigawatts of capacity from 2027.

Anthropic–United States Department of Defense dispute

The 2025-2026 Anthropic-Pentagon dispute over military use of Claude, also called the Anthropic-Department of War conflict: Anthropic's red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, Hegseth's supply-chain risk designation, OpenAI's replacement deal, and Anthropic's failed court challenge.

Anthropocene

The Anthropocene, a term coined by Paul Crutzen in 2000, is a proposed geological epoch of dominant human impact on Earth, rejected for formal status by the IUGS in 2024.

Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism is the human-centered ethical view that only or primarily humans have intrinsic value, nature having instrumental value; contrasted with biocentrism, zoocentrism, and ecocentrism in environmental ethics.

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Anthropodermic bibliopegy, binding books in human skin; verified by peptide mass fingerprinting via the Anthropodermic Book Project, 18 of 31 tested books confirmed; categories criminal, medical, memorial; Harvard case removed 2024.

Anthropoid (film)

Anthropoid (2016 war film) by Sean Ellis; Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan play Gabčík and Kubiš in the WWII Heydrich assassination drama; 121 minutes, Metascore 59, RT 67%.

Anthropoid ceramic coffins

Anthropoid ceramic coffins are clay burial coffins shaped as tubs with lids molded as a human face, used in the Levant mainly in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.

Anthropologic reserve

Anthropologic reserve (anthropological reserve), a protected area for indigenous ways of life; IUCN Category VII in the 1978 system, dropped in 1994; examples include Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Talamanca Cabécar Anthropological Reserve.

Anthropologie

Anthropologie is an American women's lifestyle retailer founded in 1992 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, owned by URBN. It targets women aged 28-45, operated 254 stores as of January 2026, and reached $2.4 billion in fiscal 2025 sales.

Anthropologist

Anthropologist: a researcher studying human origin, development, and behavior across four fields (biology, archaeology, culture, linguistics). Typically holds a master's degree; US median pay $70,770 (May 2025), about 10,200 jobs.

Anthropology

Anthropology is the social science that studies human beings across all times and places, taking a holistic, comparative approach to biology, language, social organization, and material culture, with ethnographic fieldwork as its central method.

Anthropometry

Anthropometry (from Greek anthropo, metron) is the systematic measurement of human body dimensions: height, weight, circumferences, skinfolds, BMI. Founded by Quetelet (Anthropometrie, 1871); includes Bertillon's forensic bertillonage, WHO child growth standards, and ISO 7250 design data.

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism, also called personification in literary use, is the attribution of human traits, feelings, and mental states to deities, animals, objects, nature, or AI; a fundamental human tendency, a methodological concern in animal cognition, and a design tool in chatbots and robots.

Anthropomorphism in robotics

Anthropomorphism in robotics is the attribution of human characteristics, intentions, and emotions to robots, whether through designed features like faces and voices or users' perceptions.

Anthropophagic Movement

The Anthropophagic Movement, also called Antropofagia, was a Brazilian modernist avant-garde movement of the late 1920s led by Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral.

Anthroposophical Society

The Anthroposophical Society, also known as the General Anthroposophical Society, is an international association supporting anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual path, founded in 1912 and seated at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.

Anthroposophy

Anthroposophy, also called spiritual science, is an esoteric spiritual teaching founded by the Austrian occultist Rudolf Steiner, who split from the Theosophical Society in 1912 and inspired Waldorf education and biodynamic agriculture.

Anthuan Maybank

Anthuan Maybank (born 1969, Georgetown, South Carolina) is an American sprinter, not the Malaysian bank Maybank; he won 1996 Olympic 4x400m relay gold (2:55.99, anchor leg), ran a 44.15s 400m PB, and starred for the University of Iowa.

Anthurium

Anthurium (flamingo flower, laceleaf, tailflower) is the largest genus of Araceae, 800 to 1,300+ species native to tropical America, grown for cut flowers and potted plants, chiefly Anthurium andraeanum hybrids.

Anthurium andraeanum

Anthurium andraeanum (flamingo-lily) is an epiphytic Araceae species native to Colombia and Ecuador, progenitor of over 2,000 anthurium cultivars, discovered 1876, bred mainly in Hawaii and the Netherlands, constrained by Xanthomonas bacterial blight.

Anthus

Anthus (pipits) is a cosmopolitan genus of ground-foraging songbirds in Motacillidae, named by Bechstein in 1805, with about 43-44 species; molecular work shows it is paraphyletic and sister to wagtails.

Anthylla

Anthylla was a town of Lower Egypt on the Canopic Nile branch between Canopus and Naucratis, whose revenues Herodotus says were assigned to the Persian king's consort for her shoes.

Anthyllis

Anthyllis (kidney vetches) is a genus of about 23 legume species (Fabaceae, tribe Loteae) native from Macaronesia and Europe to Iran and NE tropical Africa, with all 10 stamens united and non-lomentaceous fruits; A. vulneraria is the most widespread species.