Axios July 07, 2026 • 02:34

Anthropic says Claude has carved out its own space to ponder - Axios

By Ina Fried, Madison Mills

Anthropic says Claude has carved out its own space to ponder - Axios

The AI lab offers fresh ammunition to the debate over what would count as machine consciousness.

Driving the news: In a video, the company says Claude uses a separate area to plan strategies that can be unrelated to its immediate task and are separate from the "chain of thought" reasoning it sha… [+1782 chars]

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