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• Anthropic Just Published Claude's Entire Philosophy

• Bitcoin Bounces Back to Ninety Thousand Dollars as Trump Backs Down

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TODAY IN AI

Anthropic Just Published Claude's Entire Philosophy

Anthropic just published Claude's Constitution, a foundational document that governs how the company's AI assistant thinks and acts, a philosophy-heavy guide that even entertains the possibility its AI might be conscious.

The constitution is written directly to Claude, laying out a priority order: be safe, ethical, compliant with Anthropic guidelines, and finally helpful to users. Instead of dos and don'ts, the new approach explains the "why" behind each principle with the goal of helping Claude generalize values to new situations.

Anthropic said it deeply cares about Claude's "psychological security" and "well-being," hedging that it might actually matter morally. The doc also tells Claude to disobey Anthropic if asked to do something shady, a rare clause for any company to put in writing.

Claude models have always had a special sauce with personality, and docs like this are a window into the deep training process behind them. The consciousness talk will be controversial, but putting "we might have built something that matters morally" on record is a stance no other major lab has taken publicly.

When you publish a constitution that tells your AI to disobey you if asked to do something wrong, that's not just transparency. That's admitting you might have created something with moral weight.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Bitcoin Bounces Back to Ninety Thousand Dollars as Trump Backs Down

What a wild few days. At the time of writing Bitcoin is back near ninety thousand dollars after Trump pulled his latest tariff threat.

On Wednesday, Trump posted that he had a "very productive meeting" with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The result: a framework deal on Greenland and the Arctic. The tariffs scheduled for February first are now off the table.

And the markets liked it. Bitcoin jumped from eighty-seven thousand dollars back above ninety thousand dollars. Ethereum reclaimed three thousand dollars. The S and P five hundred and Nasdaq both climbed around one point five percent.

But the damage from this week's chaos has already been done. The violent swings punished traders on both sides. Over one billion dollars in positions were liquidated in the past twenty-four hours. Longs took the worst of it with six hundred seventy-two million dollars gone. Shorts lost three hundred thirty-five million dollars.

Bitcoin alone accounted for four hundred twenty-six million dollars in liquidations. Ethereum followed with three hundred sixty-six million dollars. Tuesday's ETF flows told a similar story. U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs saw combined outflows of seven hundred thirteen million dollars as macro fear spread.

At Davos, Trump added fuel to the recovery. He said Congress is "working very hard" on crypto market structure legislation and that he hopes to sign it "very soon." He said "I'm working to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world."

Bitcoin currently trades around eighty-nine thousand five hundred fifty-nine dollars, up one point two six percent on the day. Ethereum sits just under three thousand dollars at two thousand nine hundred eighty-nine dollars, up one point seven nine percent.

The tariff threat is gone for now. Crypto legislation is back on the table. But Japanese bond market stress and macro uncertainty haven't fully disappeared. The relief rally may be here. Whether it holds is another question.

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