Collaborate with us Welcome back! From July 8, the cost of using Claude might be your face. Anthropic's new policy lets it ask consumer users for a government ID and a live facial scan, making it the first major AI lab to put biometric checks on regular accounts. GPT-5.6 looks set to ship this week, Samsung gave its whole Korean workforce a coding agent and Anthropic hired a Nobel laureate from DeepMind.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter: Claude: What does Anthropic's new policy want from your face? GPT-5.6: Is OpenAI's next model releasing this week?
Claude wants your face Starting July 8, Anthropic can ask for your face. Its updated policy lets it require anyone on consumer Claude, whether Free, Pro or Max, to hand over a government photo ID, a live selfie and a facial geometry scan to keep their access. Team and Enterprise accounts are exempt. No major AI lab has put biometric ID checks on everyday accounts before.
Plenty of people will balk at handing a chatbot their government ID and a scan of their face. The data goes to a third party called Persona, not Anthropic, and the policy never says how long it's kept. Persona's own track record is shaky, with researchers finding its code exposed on a public server in February. It can keep your biometric data for up to three years, while Anthropic says it won't be used for ads or training.
Anthropic had been testing these checks since April, well before the recent export ban, so it isn't a reaction to that fight. It won't say what triggers a check, only that refusing one can cost you your account. Anthropic already wrongly flagged some paying adults as minors in April and suspended them. The face scan is now policy for everyone on Free, Pro and Max, while OpenAI and Google ask for none of it.
July 8 is the day proving who you are stops being optional.
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Anthropic hired a Nobel Prize winner from DeepMind Anthropic hired a Nobel laureate.
Jumper, who won the 2024 Chemistry Nobel for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nine years for Anthropic. Poaching season is on. Last week OpenAI hired DeepMind's Noam Shazeer too, and engineers have reportedly been leaving DeepMind for Anthropic at eleven to one. Why grab him?
Jumper cracked protein folding, the science behind modern drug discovery, and Anthropic has been moving into AI for biology. You don't hire the AlphaFold winner to build chatbots. This looks like Anthropic going after the science prize, where AI designs new medicines. Samsung gave its Korean workforce ChatGPT and Codex Samsung is handing ChatGPT and Codex to all its employees in Korea and its global device division, one of OpenAI's biggest deployments yet.
It's not alone. KPMG is rolling Claude out to all 276,000 of its people across 138 countries. The pilot-team era is ending, and big firms are arming entire workforces. The part to watch is Codex reaching non-coders, turning plain requests into internal tools.
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Everything else you shouldn't miss Amazon shelved its own Sam Altman movie : Months after sinking $50 billion into OpenAI, Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished film about Altman's 2023 firing, and Netflix and Focus have already passed on picking it up. Microsoft's CEO warned his own industry : Satya Nadella said there is "no societal permission for an AI future that hollows out entire industries," a rare antitrust warning from a man running a $37 billion AI business. Trump backed off Anthropic : A week after treating it as a security threat, the president told Axios that Anthropic "behaved very responsibly," though he wouldn't rule out using emergency powers. An open model is undercutting GPT-5.5 : China's Z.ai released GLM-5.2, which beats OpenAI's flagship on real-world coding tests at roughly one-sixth the price.
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