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Technology · 8 July 2026

Anthropic says it found something in Claude nobody built

Anthropic says it found something in Claude nobody built

The find could let safety teams read an AI's unspoken reasoning, though the company stresses it does not show the system is conscious. Anthropic published research on Sunday claiming its Claude models formed an internal 'workspace' where concepts are held and used before being put into words. A Google DeepMind researcher reproduced the core results on another model, but critics warn against over-reading the paper.

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