Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

October 8, 2026 Hayden Field

Machine brain.

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude.

Last August, the company announced it would allow Claude to end conversations with "persistently harmful or abusive" users as part of its research into "model welfare." The new update says that terminating conversations is still the "primary enforcement mechanism"; Anthropic did not provide a comment o …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Previous Article
Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features
Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features

Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 are ...

Next Article
Trump administration says Microsoft ‘abused’ worker visa program and is cutting off access
Trump administration says Microsoft ‘abused’ worker visa program and is cutting off access

The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration progra...