New Delhi, May 7 -- Anthropic's latest push into autonomous artificial intelligence has triggered a fierce backlash across Silicon Valley after the company introduced a controversial "dreaming" capability designed to help AI agents reflect on past tasks and improve future performance.

The feature, unveiled this week as part of Anthropic's broader expansion of AI agents, immediately reignited a growing debate over how aggressively technology companies are humanizing machine behavior in public-facing products.

Critics argue the terminology is not merely marketing. They say it risks misleading users into believing AI systems possess consciousness, emotions, or internal cognition that does not actually exist.

In a sharply worded WIRED repo...