Amazon.com AMZN, the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant, gained approximately 1.6% to $255.77 Friday as investors weighed a fresh safety challenge involving Anthropic. The AI developer said it disrupted suspected misuse of Claude connected to biological research, weapons development and cyber operations, then tightened its defenses.
Anthropic’s threat-intelligence report detailed five cases involving research that could assist biological-weapons development, although the company stopped short of claiming every researcher had harmful intent. It also identified suspected state-linked cyber campaigns and work involving conventional weapons. Amazon has plenty at stake: its second-quarter results included $53.4 billion in non-operating pretax income, driven primarily by gains tied to its Anthropic investment.
That $53.4 billion gain was roughly 3.2 times AWS’s $16.62 billion in quarterly operating income. Anthropic has also committed to purchasing more than $100 billion of AWS computing…