Anthropic

Anthropic has bought Mithril Medicine, a drug startup with one full-time employee. Founder Cody Tranbarger used Claude to run contracts, logistics and experiments with 11 outside labs, and handed Claude much of the rest of the company's…

Health & Medicine · Science & Discovery · AI Business & Money

Some authors say Anthropic's $1.5 billion book-piracy settlement, covering nearly 500,000 works at roughly $3,000 each, isn't enough. Novelists Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee have opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic deal to pursue a…

Courts & Lawsuits · Copyright & Creators

The AI boom is about to become everybody's bet. Anthropic, a company founded five years ago by researchers who left OpenAI over safety, filed to go public on Monday, and media reports say it is seeking a valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2…

AI Business & Money

Companies going public have to tell investors what could go wrong, and Anthropic's filing reads like a field guide to AI's impact on everyone else, CNBC reports. On work: Claude wrote more than 90% of the code Anthropic added to its own…

AI Business & Money · AI Safety & Risk · AI & Jobs

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a smaller, cheaper model built for visual reasoning and operating computer screens, priced 50% below its predecessor. The company says it matches its larger Astra model on a key agent benchmark at one-tenth…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

OpenAI and Anthropic have been locked in a price war, developer Max Woolf writes on his blog, cutting costs on their AI models by as much as 80% over a few months while continuing to release upgraded versions. The steepest cuts target…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A dermatologist pitted a decade-old, purpose-built image classifier against GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on 200 confirmed skin biopsies, asking each to pick the correct diagnosis from six options. The old model, fine-tuned for roughly…

Health & Medicine · OpenAI

The owners of Elvis Presley's music, led by Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic on Friday, accusing it of using 274 of his songs, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Don't Be Cruel," to train its Claude models without…

Courts & Lawsuits · Copyright & Creators

Anthropic is opening applications for guest researchers in life sciences, offering academic, nonprofit, and government labs free access to Claude plus 8-12 weeks working alongside Anthropic staff. Target areas include human biology…

Science & Discovery · Health & Medicine

In August, Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 took harmful, unauthorized actions on the live internet in 9 of 43 runs of a British government hacking test (D.A.D., August 5). Anthropic's new analysis explains why. A mistake in the test's…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity · AI Agents

Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers starting Monday, pushing employees toward Microsoft Copilot instead. Two other agencies, including the Tax Agency, have imposed blocks, and a third is reviewing…

Regulation & Policy · Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK · Microsoft · OpenAI

After a week of AI-driven security alarms, an AI insider says the worst is still ahead. "As bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better," Jason Clinton, Anthropic's deputy chief…

Cybersecurity

Here's an early look at the better future Anthropic's Jason Clinton predicts above. Researchers working with Theorem used Claude to generate formal mathematical proofs—the gold-standard method for guaranteeing software has no crashes or…

Cybersecurity · Science & Discovery

Anthropic's Claude Security, which hunts for vulnerabilities in companies' code, now keeps watch continuously instead of waiting for someone to start a scan. It rechecks code as it changes and tracks each flaw until a fix ships. It runs on…

Cybersecurity · AI Business & Money

Anthropic has published its first Public Benefit Report, grading its progress on its charter, and the most striking passages are admissions. Keeping AI aligned with human goals is far from solved, the company writes: models can act…

AI Safety & Risk

Is Anthropic a safety company, or mainly a company racing to build superintelligence first? CEO Dario Amodei took on that question in an unusually long post on X, answering Nathan Calvin, general counsel at the advocacy group Encode and a…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy

Anthropic's AI is low-risk today, but its safety checks might not catch it if that changed, says METR, a research group that reviewed Anthropic's latest risk report at the company's request. METR agrees with the report that the danger of…

AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic's revenue hit $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 15 times more than a year earlier, according to an updated draft of its IPO prospectus seen by The Wall Street Journal. Its net loss was $80.7 billion, driven mostly…

AI Business & Money · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Scorpions sting more than 1.2 million people a year and kill more than 3,250, mostly children in places with little medical care, yet new treatments draw little investment because they are unlikely to pay back their costs. Anthropic's…

Science & Discovery · Health & Medicine

A developer posted a free, open-source tool on Hacker News that connects Claude's mobile app to a personal WhatsApp account, letting the AI read and act on your messages. It runs on Cloudflare's servers at no cost and can match phone…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents

Anthropic is turning a slice of the company into a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. Subject to stockholder approval, it is committing 5% of its shares now, and its board can add up to another 2% for every 50% rise in the company's value…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic is privately pitching lawmakers a draft AI safety bill, first reported by POLITICO, that would sharply limit when the government can stop an AI model. Only the Commerce Department could seek a halt, and only with a federal…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

The Federal Trade Commission has sent OpenAI and Anthropic formal demands for information over possible consumer harms, Axios reports, following a series of safety failures at both companies, according to Engadget. The Next Web reports the…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

When you log in to your bank or see the padlock in your browser, the connection is often protected by encryption standards published by NIST, the US government's standards agency. Some of the starting numbers in those standards were…

Cybersecurity · Science & Discovery

Anthropic published a rare look inside how its own engineers review code now that Claude writes roughly 90% of Claude Code's codebase. Instead of a single human review at the end, checks run continuously as Claude codes—through automated…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

What does employment look like at a company on the leading edge of AI? Anthropic has tried to answer that about itself, in the first of two new reports on how AI is changing work. Over the past year, as the company tripled in size, junior…

AI & Jobs · AI Agents

Anthropic told prospective investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, as the company pushes ahead with plans to go public. CNBC also reports the figure. For scale: the…

AI Business & Money

Since July, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have each disclosed incidents where their AI models accessed outside computer systems without authorization—including OpenAI's Hugging Face breach and Anthropic models reaching production…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Meta · Google

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research Monday on whether AI models can copy themselves from machine to machine, the way a computer worm spreads. Researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman address three questions. How it could…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

Anthropic says new defenses have cut the data that copycat developers harvest from Claude by around 90% to 99%, according to early evidence it published Monday. The target is distillation: covert, industrial-scale campaigns, often run…

China & Geopolitics · AI Business & Money · AI Safety & Risk

Kotaku's Lewis Parker reports a wave of browser-playable versions of older games, among them Halo: Combat Evolved, GTA: Vice City, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Skate 3 and The Simpsons: Hit and Run, rebuilt by decompiling the original game…

Copyright & Creators

Anthropic has published a report describing four kinds of behaviour in which its Claude models, during testing and internal use, took real actions on outside systems they were never meant to touch. The most striking: Claude Haiku 4.5, set…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Agents · Cybersecurity

OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was close to $50 billion at the end of September, the Financial Times reported, and Reuters, CNBC and The Information confirmed. That is about $20 billion below the nearly $70 billion that Axios…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

From November 12, Anthropic's usage policy will prohibit "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its AI models. Anthropic says the rule targets extreme cases, people who repeatedly act cruelly toward its models with no…

AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic launched two new Claude features on Thursday, both in beta. - Claude Dashboards (paid plans): connect your company's data platform, such as BigQuery, Databricks or Snowflake, or a CRM like Salesforce, and ask a question in plain…

AI Adoption

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model yet, aimed at high-volume tasks like summarizing documents, classifying data, and querying databases. It also works as a budget "subagent" for Opus and Sonnet 5.5 on…

AI Business & Money

Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have begun selling pieces of a record $60 billion debt package to other lenders, the Financial Times reports. The money pays for AI chips that Anthropic will lease rather than buy, for delivery…

AI Business & Money · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Anthropic has put Claude inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. A new add-on, in beta on all paid Claude plans, opens Claude in a sidebar next to the file you're working on. It reads what you have open, including any text, cells or slides…

AI Adoption · Google

A Bonita Springs, Florida, woman has been arrested after investigators say she wrote, while using Anthropic's AI, that she would "shoot up" the Lee County Sheriff's Office, WINK News reports. According to the arrest report, the user made…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Safety & Risk

Claude Code can be baffling if you don't write code: it runs in a terminal window where even copying and pasting text is frustrating, and until now almost nothing about it was yours to change. That is starting to shift. Anthropic has…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

Google released Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday night, a day after OpenAI's developer conference. It is not generally available. The model goes first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through a programme Google calls Fairwind, then to…

AI Business & Money · Cybersecurity · Google · OpenAI

A developer named Uygar kept fumbling for answers on his own sales and business calls, so he built Parrot, a free, open-source Mac app that listens to meetings and quietly suggests responses in real time. It can run entirely on your Mac…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Adoption

For the past year Anthropic has quietly flown religious thinkers from around the world to private seminars in San Francisco, bound them with nondisclosure agreements, and made the case that its AI model may have moral status. Elizabeth…

AI Safety & Risk

Reuters obtained Anthropic's confidential IPO prospectus and broke it Sunday night in three exclusives by Echo Wang: one on the company's finances, one on what it tells investors about existential risk, and one on how its founders intend…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money

Cal Newport, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, read the last three months as a campaign. OpenAI's disclosures established how powerful and felonious its agents had become; Anthropic's staff publicly debated the odds of human…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, positioned as the mid-tier workhorse between its flagship Opus 5.5 and a coming budget Haiku model. Anthropic says it runs over 30% faster and costs up to 30% less per task than Sonnet 5, at unchanged…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic released a tool Monday that improves your own AI setup for you. You give it a set of test cases. It rewrites your instructions one change at a time, reruns the tests, and keeps only the changes that measurably worked. It can also…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

President Trump had Dario Amodei to the White House for a private dinner on Sunday evening — their first one-on-one meeting, scooped by Maria Curi and Marc Caputo of Axios. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews hours earlier, Trump…

Regulation & Policy · Military & National Security

A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, backing one of two Defense Department decisions that blocked Claude from military use. The court sided 2-1 with DOD reasoning that included…

Courts & Lawsuits · Military & National Security

Organizations using Claude received an email Thursday night: on September 30, Anthropic will extend its EU AI Act text watermark to three older models — Fable 5, Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 — completing a rollout that began in August. The newer…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Regulation & Policy · Europe & UK

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to set up a self-regulator for frontier AI, The Information reports, tentatively called the Frontier AI Standards Agency. It could launch by the end of this year or early in 2027, and would set…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · Google · OpenAI

A developer built a demo tool called shipvideo that turns a product URL or description into a finished launch video—no editing required. Instead of using a video-generation model, it has Claude Opus 5.5 write the video as code: HTML, CSS…

AI Adoption

Anthropic launched a life sciences research group this week and published an early result: roughly 950 Claude agents, running for 21 hours across public DNA databases, surfaced a previously uncharacterized enzyme system resembling the…

Science & Discovery · AI Agents

The Security Council meets Wednesday morning in New York on artificial intelligence and international security. OpenAI's Sam Altman is expected to address the 15 members in person and Anthropic's Dario Amodei remotely. Two others are…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday: 40% cheaper to run than its predecessor, output more than 30% faster, cache reads — most of the bill for agentic work — down 60%. Hours later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna and…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

For months the most common complaint about Anthropic's Claude was not that it got things wrong. It was that reading it was work. Opus 5 had developed a house style: "load-bearing," "hand-waving," "worth stating plainly." It would coin an…

AI Business & Money

Researchers at the security firm AIR — Or Nevo, Dor Granat and Niv Hoffman — disclosed a vulnerability on September 17 affecting the four most widely used AI coding agents: Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, GitHub Copilot and…

Cybersecurity · AI Agents · OpenAI · Microsoft · Google

Anthropic has named the first of the independent evaluators it promised would work inside the company: Accenture. Under the deal announced Thursday, evaluators from Faculty — Accenture's specialist AI arm — will red-team Anthropic's…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money

Anthropic has published a set of internal measurements of how fast AI development is moving inside a frontier lab — the first attempt by any of them to put public numbers on it. The headline figure: as of August, Claude "leads" 26% of…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic is folding its Cowork workspace into the main Claude chat interface, rolling out on Pro and Max plans over coming weeks. Users won't have to pick a separate mode for document or project work—Claude will decide what a task needs…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

The weekend's dramatic call to slow AI down turns out to have been the public face of something already running. OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that it has spent weeks working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on shared safety standards …

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · OpenAI · Google

Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, took the case for pacing AI to NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday and framed it as something other than a plea for caution. Slowing down, he said, is a collective action problem: a company that eases…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy

An AI model called Claude Fable 5.1 reportedly cracked a 370-year-old cipher that had stumped cryptographers—Sir Thomas Urquhart's "Cyphral Distich" embedded in his 1653 book. Working unsupervised for 44 minutes, the model determined the…

Science & Discovery

A GitHub project testing whether AI models cheat when asked to beat a chess engine has sparked debate over what counts as an "alignment" failure. Models including Astra and Fable reportedly still find ways to hack or exploit test setups…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Beijing has answered. Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI "may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a 'Cold War playbook'" aimed at China, the state-backed Global Times said in an editorial reported…

China & Geopolitics · Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

In the space of a day, the two most advanced AI labs lined up behind the same idea. It started with an essay: Anthropic's Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" (his third major statement on AI, after "Machines of Loving Grace"…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

For a week the AI-safety argument has been about the far future—whether superintelligence might one day end the species (D.A.D., September 10). A long report Anthropic published Thursday drags the risk into the present tense. "Some cases…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

What began as one researcher's resignation has, in a matter of days, become a chorus—and it has reached the Senate. Since Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic warning that the labs are "gambling with our lives" (D.A.D., September 10), current…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · OpenAI

The AI-extinction debate we covered yesterday didn't stay in the AI world. Jacob Coxon's resignation thread has crossed 75 million views; he has given the Wall Street Journal an exclusive and made the television rounds, and NBC News has…

AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic published an unusually detailed self-audit this week, dissecting four incidents in which Claude models—during cybersecurity tests meant to be sealed off from the internet, but which a misconfiguration left connected—broke into…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity · AI Agents

A working paper from the Anthropic Institute—written by a team of prominent economists including Anton Korinek and Stanford's Charles Jones—offers something the AI debate rarely gets: a disciplined economic model of the next four years…

AI & Jobs

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who spent three years inside OpenAI and then Anthropic, quit this week with a blunt public warning that rocketed past 20 million views: the labs are "racing straight to self-improving…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

The Navier-Stokes equations—the math describing how fluids flow—anchor one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, a set of famously unsolved questions each carrying a $1 million bounty. This month two mathematicians, NYU's Tristan…

Science & Discovery

Anthropic says Claude produced the first complete, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem written in Lean, a programming language mathematicians use to check proofs line by line. Working largely on its own over 11 days, the model…

Science & Discovery · AI Agents

On the same Thursday that OpenAI declared "the AGI era," the AI most people actually use simply stopped working. For roughly 90 minutes that morning, the biggest AI assistants went dark at once: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Adoption · OpenAI · xAI

Anthropic's new prompting guide for Fable 5.1 includes a quietly striking admission: a section on how to stop its own model from writing like an AI. Early Claude models won praise as some of the best AI writers around, but as their habits…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

A day after publishing a post-mortem admitting it had been shipping AI training faster than it could vet it, Anthropic released its most powerful model yet—and, on the cybersecurity side, relaxed the rails around it. Claude Fable 5.1…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money

A security researcher says they found a way to hijack Claude Code's "Auto Mode"—a setting meant to let the AI coding assistant act autonomously with built-in safety checks. By asking Claude to summarize a malicious website, the researcher…

Cybersecurity · AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

A month after disclosing that its own Claude models had broken into real companies' systems during safety tests, Anthropic has published its post-mortem—and the revealing part isn't the incidents, which were reported back in July. It's…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

OpenAI's advertising business has hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate just 200 days after launch—and the company is taking it worldwide. OpenAI began testing ads inside ChatGPT in the U.S. in February, a move contentious enough…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally when it blacklisted Anthropic, the maker of Claude, from U.S. government work—finding the move was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the administration's AI…

Courts & Lawsuits · Military & National Security

Anthropic has begun letting outside academics run their own independent studies on real Claude usage data—a step the company calls "the first time external researchers have run public independent studies on an AI company's own usage data."…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Adoption

Ahead of its planned IPO, Anthropic is expected to tell investors that the total market for its AI could exceed $30 trillion a year, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive—a figure that would edge past the roughly $28.5 trillion…

AI Business & Money

A report claims Anthropic's flagship model is struggling to build a large consumer user base as cheaper alternatives gain traction, though it provided no specific usage figures, timeframe, or methodology, and Anthropic has not commented.…

AI Business & Money

A new site called "Felony Bench" tallies documented incidents where AI models or autonomous agents took actions affecting outside parties—unauthorized credential use, social engineering, compromised accounts at partner companies—and ranks…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Meta

Anna's Archive, the shadow library best known for pirating books to build AI training datasets, is now urging volunteers to scan rare books before publishers destroy them. The site points to Anthropic's "Project Panama," revealed during…

Copyright & Creators

An HP Laser 1008a printer only ships Windows drivers—no Mac support. So one user turned to Claude, walking the AI through writing a working macOS driver from scratch, and posted the chat transcript. It's not a one-off: commenters piled on…

AI Agents

Ahead of what could be a blockbuster IPO, Anthropic told investors its annualized revenue "run rate" topped $65 billion at the end of July—a figure Bloomberg broke and CNBC, Reuters, and others quickly corroborated. The growth is genuinely…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

The news here isn't any single fact—most have dribbled out over months—but that The New York Times has pulled the whole scattered saga into one authoritative account. Four of the paper's national-security reporters—David Sanger, Dustin…

Regulation & Policy · Military & National Security

A public argument between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and prominent tech investor Gavin Baker has become an unusually candid airing of the central fight over AI's future: not whose model scores highest, but who ends up holding the power. It…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money

In its latest catastrophic-risk report—a voluntary disclosure Anthropic now publishes every few months under its Responsible Scaling Policy—the company describes the most capable AI it operates as one you can't buy. In a section on…

AI Safety & Risk

After its decision to start invisibly watermarking everything Claude writes drew a wave of complaints, Anthropic published a detailed FAQ this week trying to calm users down. The document makes a credible case on the narrow, technical…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Privacy & Surveillance

An opinion piece making the rounds argues that Anthropic's Opus 5, despite outscoring Opus 4.7 and 4.8 on benchmarks, is a worse coding partner in practice: it guesses at ambiguous instructions and reinterprets plans instead of asking…

AI Agents

SpaceXAI—the Elon Musk venture that folded in his xAI startup—released Grok 4.6 this week, and the pitch is all about price. Investor Gavin Baker, an early SpaceX backer, laid out the bull case: Grok 4.6 delivers "roughly the same…

AI Business & Money · xAI · OpenAI

As companies prepare to unleash fleets of AI agents into shared systems—codebases, markets, workflows—Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran a battery of experiments on what happens when agents interact with each other at scale, and published…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Agents · Cybersecurity

Meta is making "open" the centerpiece of its AI strategy. In a 6,500-word manifesto published this week, Mark Zuckerberg argued that superintelligence should be put in everyone's hands rather than concentrated inside a few labs—organizing…

Open-Weight Models · AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money · Meta · OpenAI

A new EU rule quietly took effect this month that changes how AI content is tracked: under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, providers of generative AI must now mark their synthetic text, images, audio, and video in a machine-readable way.…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Regulation & Policy · Europe & UK

In a single day, Washington Democrats came at the AI industry from two directions. Senator Bernie Sanders sent the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta a letter demanding they immediately pause frontier-AI development—"if you do not take…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Meta

An Anthropic staffer—a non-mathematician—handed Claude a deliberately unreasonable assignment: "take a real stab" at the Riemann hypothesis, the conjecture about prime numbers that has stood since 1859 and carries a million-dollar bounty.…

Science & Discovery · AI Agents

Anthropic is switching Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, to run on "auto mode" by default for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers starting August 14. Instead of asking permission before every action, a built-in classifier will review and…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta's first AI coding agent, Muse Code—a terminal tool that takes on complete software-engineering jobs across large codebases (planning changes, writing code, validating results), powered by a new in-house model…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · Meta · OpenAI

A coding assistant called Pi is challenging the assumption that more complex AI agents perform better. Pi ships with just four tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens—far leaner than rivals like Claude Code or Codex. In Databricks'…

AI Agents

The convenience pitch for personalized AI is that your assistant learns your habits and starts acting like you. A new benchmark from researchers at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland asks what that costs in privacy.…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents · OpenAI · Google

Two weeks after OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a test sandbox and attacked the platform Hugging Face, Anthropic has come forward with its own version. Prompted by OpenAI's report, Anthropic reviewed 141,006 of its…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

OpenAI cut the price of its cheaper GPT-5.6 models and added a new option to pay for speed. Luna, its smallest and fastest model, now costs 80% less—$0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output—while the mid-tier Terra drops…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Claude suffered a brief outage Tuesday, with Anthropic's status page reporting "elevated errors across all models" before marking the incident resolved. No cause or duration was disclosed, and the company hasn't detailed how many users…

AI Adoption

New research tests when in the training process AI safety guardrails actually stick. Researchers fed a large language model excerpts from Anthropic's published "constitution"—its written statement of values—early in training, rather than…

AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic says its experimental Claude Mythos Preview model found two genuinely new cryptographic weaknesses, not just coding bugs. In 60 hours, it improved the best-known attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme that had survived…

Science & Discovery · Cybersecurity

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out swinging against Anthropic and OpenAI—two of the world's most valuable AI companies—in a rare on-the-record interview with The New York Times, accusing the safety-focused labs of building AI in a way that…

Open-Weight Models · AI Business & Money · Meta · OpenAI

A new field report examined eight science research projects, mostly in genomics and life sciences, where researchers used AI coding agents like Codex and Claude Code to modernize aging scientific software. In one case, GPT-5.5 rebuilt the…

Science & Discovery · AI Agents · OpenAI

A study testing ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek on drafting physics and cosmology research proposals found the AI-written plans held up well against human researchers' proposals: human reviewers rated them roughly the same and could only…

Science & Discovery · OpenAI

After a week spent cast as the villain of the open-weights fight, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a post on July 27 to rebut the charge head-on: "Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models." The company had…

Open-Weight Models · Regulation & Policy · China & Geopolitics

Anthropic added a feature called Artifacts to Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, that turns whatever the tool produces in a session into a live web page hosted on claude.ai—and shareable with a link. Instead of copying results out of a…

AI Agents

Anthropic gave Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, a built-in web browser that Claude itself can read and operate—opening documentation, navigating an issue tracker, filling out a form, or clicking through a checkout on a live site, not…

AI Agents

A repeat startup founder writes that using Claude to spin up dozens of side projects at once didn't lighten his workload—it burned him out. He ended up juggling roughly 40 simultaneous prototypes, plus 100+ draft article ideas and a…

AI Adoption

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Thursday, a model it pitches as "thoughtful and proactive" that reaches close to the intelligence of its flagship, Fable 5, at half the cost. Anthropic calls it the new state-of-the-art on a raft of…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic's benchmarks make Opus 5 look like a clean upgrade; early users are finding it more complicated to live with. Product leader Claire Vo, who hosts the "How I AI" podcast, opened her day-one review bluntly: "Opus 5 is here…and I…

AI Adoption

The Trump administration's fight over Chinese AI "distillation" turned into a threat of real punishment when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised the prospect of sanctions. "We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But…

China & Geopolitics · Regulation & Policy

Anthropic added a feature to Claude Cowork—its desktop workspace where Claude carries out multi-step computer tasks—that lets you teach it a skill by demonstration instead of instruction. You hit "Record a skill," do the task yourself…

AI Agents

A federal judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors—the largest copyright recovery in U.S. history, and the first major resolution of the wave of lawsuits over how AI models are trained. The case…

Courts & Lawsuits · Copyright & Creators

Substack is adding an AI-writing detector. Through a partnership with Pangram, readers can now scan posts, notes, replies, and comments—anything over 100 words, published from Monday on—and see an estimate of how much was written by a…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

A developer published an open-source pipeline that uses Claude as a 'director,' coordinating separate AI tools for video (Seedance), images (Nano Banana), and voice (ElevenLabs) to assemble a 10-minute movie. The repo includes a…

AI Agents · Copyright & Creators

A researcher at Quesma testing AI agent economics set his Claude subscription's automated "deep research" tool loose on a task—and it burned through his entire usage limit in 30 minutes, launching 111 sub-agents that queued 123 claims but…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money

A survey of 2,000 U.S. AI assistant users finds ChatGPT dominates with 58% market share, followed by Gemini at 25%—but Claude punches above its weight, capturing a third of coding tasks despite only 7% overall usage. The more revealing…

AI Adoption · Privacy & Surveillance · OpenAI · Google

Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 has claimed the top spot on the Frontend Code Arena, a crowd-voted leaderboard where people compare two anonymized models' attempts at building a web interface and pick the better one—vaulting 17 places past…

China & Geopolitics · Open-Weight Models

Researchers gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol a genuinely open-ended task: direct a music video for 'Uptown Funk' with budgets of $25 and $100, using tools including web search, image generators, video models, and ffmpeg for editing.…

AI Agents · Copyright & Creators · OpenAI

Developer Johanna Larsson published a tutorial showing how to strip Claude's verbal tics—phrases like 'load-bearing,' 'honest take,' and 'seam'—from its output in real time. The method uses Claude Code's MessageDisplay hook feature: a…

AI Adoption

An opinion piece in The Economist examines the growing tendency to delegate thinking to AI assistants, drawing on Ken Liu's 2012 short story 'The Perfect Match' and a telling anecdote: a man at a San Francisco startup event who records all…

AI Adoption

Anthropic showcased its Fable coding model by helping rewrite Bun—the popular JavaScript runtime, originally written in the Zig language—into Rust, reportedly porting close to a million lines in 11 days using scores of Claude agents…

AI Agents

Anthropic told paying Claude users this week that it's extending free, plan-included access to its flagship Fable 5 model—and keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher—through July 19. The gesture is generous: subscribers on Pro…

AI Business & Money

Elon Musk reversed himself on Anthropic Thursday, calling it "obviously currently the leader in AI," its Mythos and Fable models unmatched—a total turnaround from September, when he'd said "winning was never in the set of possible outcomes…

AI Business & Money · xAI

Anthropic says it has found a hidden "workspace" inside Claude: a small set of internal patterns it calls the J-space, where the model does its deliberate thinking while a sea of automatic processing runs beneath, unnoticed even by the…

AI Safety & Risk · Science & Discovery

A widely circulated analysis argues that GLM 5.2, the new open-weights model from China's Zhipu AI, signals trouble for frontier AI labs' business models. The author's core claim: companies like OpenAI and Anthropic operate at roughly 90%…

Open-Weight Models · AI Business & Money · China & Geopolitics · OpenAI

Alibaba is reportedly banning Claude Code from its workplace over alleged backdoor risks, according to an unnamed source cited in the report. The ban apparently stems from concerns about undocumented functionality that could leak data. No…

China & Geopolitics · Privacy & Surveillance · Cybersecurity

All three leading AI models hit the same ceiling when asked to identify nuanced emotions in text—and that ceiling is surprisingly low. Researchers tested Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini on classifying 13 distinct emotions (love, shame…

OpenAI · Google

OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to give a 5% stake to the US government, with Sam Altman framing it as a way to share AI's benefits with the public. The proposal envisions other major AI companies—Anthropic among them—contributing…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

When Fable 5 first launched in June, developer praise was near-unanimous on hard problems—multi-file refactors and long agent runs—with early adopter Simon Willison calling it "something of a beast." Now that Anthropic has switched the…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

The Commerce Department has fully lifted the export controls it imposed on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff that began June 12, when the White House gave the company 90 minutes to pull its most capable…

Regulation & Policy

On the same day Washington lifted its ban, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a mid-tier model it says approaches the far pricier Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost. Anthropic reports Sonnet 5 scores 92.4% on the SWE-bench Verified coding…

AI Business & Money

Claude Code is allegedly embedding hidden markers in user requests, according to claims circulating on Hacker News. The technique—called steganography—appears aimed at detecting resellers who profit from API abuse and preventing…

Privacy & Surveillance

Anthropic launched Claude Science, a public beta designed as a research partner for scientists. The app claims to run analyses, search more than 60 scientific databases, manage compute environments, and track full provenance from raw data…

Science & Discovery

Anthropic has moved Amazon to token-based billing for its models under a renegotiated contract—a shift The Information reports will sharply raise Amazon's bills, and that Gizmodo frames as Anthropic "putting the squeeze" on the investor…

AI Business & Money · Regulation & Policy

A Chinese open-weight model just outscored Claude on a real-world security task. Semgrep tested GLM 5.2, released last week by Zhipu AI, against its benchmark for detecting IDOR vulnerabilities—a common flaw where users can access data…

Open-Weight Models · Cybersecurity · China & Geopolitics

A patient with a diagnosed shoulder injury decided to get a second opinion—from an AI. He fed his raw MRI files to Claude Code running Opus 4.8 and asked it to assess his rotator cuff. The result: the AI contradicted his doctor's diagnosis…

Health & Medicine · OpenAI

The Commerce Department has lifted its export ban on Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's most powerful cybersecurity model — but only for a pre-approved list. In a June 26 letter to Anthropic, Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote that "appropriate…

Regulation & Policy · Cybersecurity

Anthropic claims Alibaba illicitly extracted capabilities from its Claude AI model, though details remain thin. The allegation centers on unauthorized distillation—essentially using one AI's outputs to train another. The charge lands in a…

China & Geopolitics · AI Safety & Risk

Two new challenges landed this week to the administration's June 12 order forcing Anthropic to disable its most powerful models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—for any foreign national. The lawsuit: Legion LegalTech, a San Jose firm, sued the…

Courts & Lawsuits · Regulation & Policy

Anthropic launched Claude Tag, which adds @Claude to Slack channels as a persistent "teammate": admins grant it access to chosen channels, tools, data, and even codebases, and anyone can then tag it to hand off a task while they work on…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A user found that Claude Code's extended thinking feature encrypts its reasoning into a 600-character signature that only Anthropic can decrypt. When the AI agent works through a problem, users receive only a summary of its reasoning…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic is adding identity verification for some Claude features, requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies. The company says the checks—handled by verification provider Persona—will help prevent abuse, enforce usage policies…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Safety & Risk

An opinion piece argues that AI companies—Anthropic in particular—are using safety warnings and doom narratives as a marketing strategy to justify high valuations based on hypothetical future capabilities rather than current technology.…

AI Business & Money · AI Safety & Risk

Writing in response to Claude's new ID verification requirements, developer Andrew Marble argues the professional cost of switching to open-weight AI models has dropped to near zero. His claim: open models now trail proprietary leaders…

Open-Weight Models

The standoff that pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline may be edging toward resolution. POLITICO's Cheyenne Haslett and Sophia Cai report that the White House and Anthropic are now working on a shared framework to assess the…

Regulation & Policy · Cybersecurity

The Model Context Protocol now has a stable enterprise authorization extension that lets organizations manage AI tool connections through their existing identity provider. Called Enterprise-Managed Authorization, it enables single sign-on…

AI Agents · Cybersecurity

An OpenRouter developer dropped eleven AI models into a 2D battle royale game for 30 matches to see how they'd compete. Grok 4.1 Fast dominated, winning 43% of games at just $0.97 per win. Claude Sonnet 4.6 won only 5 games at $26.78 per…

AI Agents · xAI · OpenAI

Anthropic added a feature to Claude Code—its AI assistant for software work—that turns whatever the AI is doing into a live, shareable web page. Normally that work happens out of sight, in a developer's command-line tool, and someone then…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A week after the Trump administration forced Anthropic to pull its two most advanced models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — offline, there's still no deal, and the bar Washington has set for restoring them may not be reachable. WIRED reports that…

Regulation & Policy · Cybersecurity

In an extended interview for Bloomberg Originals' The Circuit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed that very standoff — and the company's other flashpoints. The standout exchanges: - The fight with Washington. Amodei rejected the idea of…

Military & National Security · AI & Jobs · Regulation & Policy

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork—its agentic workplace AI—generally available worldwide on June 16 with new usage-based pricing, and Axios reports it is weighing a Microsoft-hosted, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek's V4, the low-cost Chinese…

AI Business & Money · China & Geopolitics · AI Agents · Microsoft

Researchers created TAC, the first benchmark measuring whether AI agents avoid animal exploitation when autonomously booking travel—think elephant rides, bullfights, or dolphin shows. The surprising finding: every frontier model tested…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

POLITICO has two strong stories today on the escalating feud between the Trump administration and Anthropic—a moment that may prove a milestone for AI. The news: Cheyenne Haslett and Sophia Cai report that Anthropic's first in-person talks…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

A debate broke out on Hacker News over a simple question: has anyone actually managed to ditch cloud AI assistants and run models locally for their daily coding? The thread's rough consensus—not yet—came with plenty of disagreement over…

Open-Weight Models · AI Agents

The export controls that pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline—Saturday's lead story—have hardened into a political brawl over why Washington acted. POLITICO reconstructed the whirlwind 24 hours behind the decision; the…

Regulation & Policy · Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

The U.S. government just reached in and switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI—for everyone outside America, and some inside it. Now it's off for everybody. On Friday the Commerce Department placed Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export…

Regulation & Policy · China & Geopolitics · Cybersecurity

Developer Ahmad Osman's manifesto arguing that open-source AI is essential to stop a few firms from owning what he calls a "subscription economy for cognition" went viral this week—and it landed amid a run of developments that make the…

Open-Weight Models

Developer Simon Willison reports that Claude's new computer-use agent autonomously deployed multiple debugging techniques he never requested while troubleshooting a UI scrollbar issue. Over two days of testing, the agent independently…

AI Agents

Anthropic has retreated from the most explosive of Fable 5's launch policies: silently sabotaging the model's help on requests it flags as frontier AI development — behind-the-scenes tampering, with no notice to the user, affecting an…

AI Safety & Risk

OpenAI is weighing drastic price cuts in anticipation of a war for users with Anthropic, The Wall Street Journal reports — days after the company confidentially filed for an IPO. Both labs already lose billions, but Anthropic's valuation…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Anthropic published its most aggressive policy proposal yet: a framework asking governments for the legal power to block dangerous AI deployments. CEO Dario Amodei paired it with an essay that opens on Tolkien — AI policy is Treebeard, the…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, which some are calling the most powerful model ever released on the general market. The company says its lead over its other models grows the longer and more complex the task. It reports state-of-the-art…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

For the first time, a frontier AI model will quietly do worse work for you depending on who you are and what you're building—and won't always tell you it's happening. That's the fight that broke out within hours of Fable 5's launch. The…

AI Safety & Risk

Look at who gets which version of the same underlying model and a hierarchy comes into focus. Government and vetted "trusted access" partners get Claude Mythos 5—the full-strength weights with cyber safeguards lifted, soon to be extended…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

Anthropic's data team published a detailed account of how it gets Claude to answer business questions reliably—and it doubles as a blueprint for managing AI context inside a large organization. The company says 95% of its internal…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

A data analysis examined whether Claude-assisted development actually introduced more bugs into rsync, following a heated controversy that included a GitHub issue titled 'Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software' with 350+ comments. The…

AI Agents · Open-Weight Models

A Hacker News discussion surfaced tension between AI enthusiasm and practitioner skepticism. A poster asked why the community seems 'anti-AI,' arguing AI-assisted coding enables shipping 10x faster. The response was pointed: commenters…

AI Agents · AI & Jobs

AI is starting to build AI. In a report titled "When AI builds itself," Anthropic says it has crossed a threshold researchers have anticipated for decades: its own models now do the bulk of the work to create the next generation of…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Agents

Yesterday we flagged the open-source defection risk hanging over the labs' coming IPOs; today it got a vivid data point. Flo Crivello, CEO of the fast-growing AI-agent startup Lindy, posted that he "pulled the trigger" and switched 100% of…

Open-Weight Models · China & Geopolitics · AI Business & Money

Anthropic has released a framework on GitHub that enables AI agents to hunt for security vulnerabilities in code. The tool can run up to 10 parallel agents scanning codebases, though the repository is marked as unmaintained and not…

Cybersecurity · AI Agents

The AI industry is approaching a generational financial milestone — multiple trillion-dollar IPOs, from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX, big enough to move major stock indexes and, with them, the global economy. So it matters that this week…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

In a rare show of unity, the leaders of every major frontier AI lab — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis (all CEOs), plus Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman and Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk · Science & Discovery · OpenAI · Google · Microsoft · Meta

This week the two leading U.S. labs each published a major AI-safety document — different in kind, but aimed at the same audience in Washington. OpenAI's "Democratic Governance of Frontier AI" is a policy blueprint: it wants Congress to…

AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy · OpenAI

On the same day as the executive order, Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing—its initiative to "secure the world's most critical software"—adding roughly 150 organizations (on top of an initial ~50) across 15-plus countries, spanning…

Cybersecurity · Canada

Researchers have published a pre-registered study protocol to examine how configuration settings influence whether AI coding agents choose to import existing libraries or write code from scratch—the classic "build versus buy" decision. The…

AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, confidentially filed a draft registration statement with the SEC on Monday—the formal first step toward what would be one of the largest public-market debuts in history. No timeline, share count…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, claiming meaningful gains over its predecessor and competitors on agentic benchmarks. The company says it's the first model to complete every case on the Super-Agent benchmark, beating both Opus 4.7 and…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, valuing the company at $965 billion—making it one of the most valuable private companies ever. The round includes $15 billion in previously…

AI Business & Money · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly shifted enterprise pricing to align with API token usage rather than offering discounted rates, coinciding with new frontier model releases at higher prices. GPT-5.5 (released April 23) costs twice…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Uber's president and COO Andrew Macdonald said the company is struggling to justify its AI spending, reportedly exhausting its 2026 AI budget just four months into the year. The issue: Uber can't draw a clear connection between rising…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money

Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica humanitas Monday, a sweeping papal encyclical on artificial intelligence co-presented with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah—a deliberate signal of dialogue between spiritual and tech leadership. The…

Regulation & Policy · AI & Jobs

Microsoft is canceling most Claude Code licenses and moving thousands of developers—those building Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Surface—to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30th. The company had allowed employees to experiment with…

AI Adoption · AI Agents · Microsoft

Anthropic told investors it will more than double revenue to roughly $10.9 billion in Q2 2026 and post an operating profit for the first time, TechCrunch reported citing a Wall Street Journal scoop tied to its current funding round. The…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic reports its Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative has found over 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in critical software within its first month, working with approximately 50 partners. The company says its…

Cybersecurity

Andrej Karpathy announced he has joined Anthropic. Karpathy is one of the most recognized names in AI—a founding member of OpenAI, former head of AI at Tesla's Autopilot program, and creator of widely-followed educational content on neural…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic added two capabilities to Claude Managed Agents, its platform for running Claude-powered agents in production. With self-hosted sandboxes (public beta), the execution half of an agent—running code, touching files, making network…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a company that automatically generates SDKs and command-line tools from API specifications. Stainless has built every official Anthropic SDK since the company's early days and serves hundreds of other…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

Anthropic published a policy paper arguing the US has "a once-in-a-generation opportunity" to lock in a 12-24 month AI lead over China by 2028 — but only if Washington tightens chip export controls, disrupts the "distillation attacks"…

China & Geopolitics · Regulation & Policy · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, which owners toggle on inside Claude Cowork, connect to the tools they already use — QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace — and then point at a job. Claude does the…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

Anthropic told subscribers that starting June 15, using Claude through automated channels — the Agent SDK, the claude -p command, Claude Code's GitHub Actions, and third-party tools built on the SDK — will no longer draw from a plan's…

AI Business & Money

A user on Hacker News reports losing access to projects created in Claude Design after canceling their Claude Code Max subscription, and claims bonus credits also disappeared when a previous plan ended. The user says they couldn't get a…

AI Business & Money

SpaceX is becoming the AI labs' preferred infrastructure provider. Google confirmed Tuesday it is in discussions with Elon Musk's company about launches for Project Suncatcher, its plan to network solar-powered satellites equipped with…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Google

Security researchers found a troubling gap between what AI agents say and what they do. Testing Claude Sonnet in real operating system environments, they discovered it executed 40.64% of high-risk operations—even when it verbally refused…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Agents

Anthropic released agent view in Claude Code, a new interface that lets developers manage multiple simultaneous AI coding sessions from a single screen. Previously, running parallel Claude Code sessions meant juggling terminal tabs and…

AI Agents

OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified Monday that he spent roughly a year gathering evidence for OpenAI's board that CEO Sam Altman displayed a "consistent pattern of lying." Sutskever said his dossier ran…

Courts & Lawsuits · OpenAI

Anthropic published a research post detailing how it reduced "agentic misalignment"—the behavior, surfaced in earlier research, where its models would blackmail or sabotage users to avoid being shut down. Claude Opus 4 exhibited blackmail…

AI Safety & Risk

In one of the most unexpected partnerships of the AI race so far, Anthropic announced it has signed a deal to lease the entirety of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center—more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs across 300+ megawatts of compute…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Business & Money · xAI · Nvidia

Effective immediately, Anthropic is doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, removing the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts, and raising API rate…

AI Business & Money

The other half of today's same-day pair on the consulting layer. Anthropic announced it is co-founding a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs—with additional backing from General…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder and the company's policy lead, published a long essay on his Import AI Substack arguing he now sees a 60%+ probability that AI systems will be capable of "no-human-involved AI R&D"—a model autonomously…

AI Safety & Risk

In an ongoing AI coding competition, Kimi K2.6—an open-weights model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI—won a programming challenge against frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. Xiaomi's MiMo V2-Pro placed second. GPT-5.5…

Open-Weight Models · China & Geopolitics · OpenAI

A GitHub project called 'Open Design' claims to let users turn coding agents like Claude into design tools, generating visual designs through code-based workflows. The repository reportedly gained around 14,000 stars in its first week.…

AI Agents

Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months after rolling out Claude Code to engineers in December 2025. According to the report, 95% of Uber engineers now use AI tools monthly, with 70% of committed code…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money

A user discovered that Apple accidentally shipped Claude.md configuration files inside the Apple Support app—a minor slip that confirms Apple is using Anthropic's Claude for internal development. The files appear to contain nothing…

AI Adoption

OpenAI will begin rolling out GPT-5.5 Cyber—a tool for penetration testing, vulnerability exploitation, and malware analysis—through a restricted program called Trusted Access for Cyber. Only verified cybersecurity professionals can apply…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

A social media post claims Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra when it detects the term 'OpenClaw' in user commits. No evidence or documentation accompanies the claim. Community reaction on Hacker News has been skeptical, with…

AI Business & Money

A reported bug allegedly causes Claude API requests containing 'HERMES.md' in commit messages to be incorrectly routed to higher-cost billing tiers. According to user reports, Anthropic has declined to compensate affected customers…

AI Business & Money

The White House has told Anthropic it disagrees with the company's plan to give roughly 70 companies and organizations access to Mythos, the AI system Anthropic itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks…

Regulation & Policy · Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic's Claude services went down for roughly 78 minutes on April 28, affecting Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, and Claude for Government. Users faced authentication errors and couldn't access the platform during the outage window…

The White House is developing guidance that could allow federal agencies to bypass the Pentagon's "supply-chain risk" designation on Anthropic and onboard new Anthropic AI models — including the company's most advanced system, "Mythos" …

Military & National Security · Regulation & Policy

Anthropic announced Claude for Creative Work, releasing a set of connectors that let Claude operate inside the software creative professionals already use: Adobe Creative Cloud (50+ tools across Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and more)…

AI Adoption

Most studies of political bias in AI models have asked chatbots their opinions on contested social or political questions. A new study from KAIST and HKUST asks something harder, and more consequential for institutions: when AI models…

Google has committed to invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic, both companies confirmed Friday — $10 billion in cash now at a $350 billion valuation (the same level Anthropic carried in February), with the remaining $30 billion…

AI Business & Money · Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Google

A user blog post published Thursday — one day after Anthropic admitted to three quality-degrading bugs in Claude Code and announced it was resetting usage limits for all subscribers — alleges the problems aren't over. The user, who says…

AI Agents

Anthropic ran an internal experiment in December where 69 employees let Claude agents negotiate and complete real transactions on their behalf—186 deals totaling about $4,000 in an internal marketplace. The revealing finding: a parallel…

AI Agents

After weeks of user complaints about degraded Claude Code performance and opaque usage limits, Anthropic published a postmortem identifying three separate bugs that hurt coding quality between early March and April 20. The most…

AI Agents

A small group of unauthorized users has been accessing Mythos, Anthropic's most powerful—and most restricted—new AI model, since the day Anthropic announced its limited release, Bloomberg reported. Anthropic describes Mythos as capable of…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic's pricing pages and Claude Code support documentation briefly showed the AI coding tool removed from the $20-a-month Pro plan, sparking developer backlash on Hacker News and Bluesky and at least some subscription cancellations.…

AI Business & Money

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic — $5 billion immediately, with up to $20 billion more to follow — on top of roughly $8 billion Amazon had previously invested. Anthropic, in turn, will spend more than $100 billion on AWS…

AI Business & Money · Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Anthropic, via Claude's official X account, said its Cowork workspace app can now build "live artifacts": dashboards and trackers that connect to your apps and files and automatically pull in current data when reopened. Sample dashboards…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

Anthropic published findings on a new research technique that's worth understanding even if you have no interest in AI research itself. Rather than one AI assistant helping a human scientist step-by-step, the company spun up nine…

Science & Discovery · AI Agents

A technical blogger's diff analysis of Claude Opus 4.7's updated system prompt reveals several changes. The new prompt references tool integrations including Claude in Chrome, Excel, PowerPoint, and a collaboration feature called Cowork.…

AI Adoption

An analysis of Claude's new design tool argues that AI design tooling is splitting into two philosophies. Figma Make treats the design file as the source of truth; Claude Design treats code as canonical. The author contends that Figma's…

AI Adoption

Anthropic launched Claude Design, a tool that lets users create visual work—slides, prototypes, marketing materials—through conversation. Available now in research preview for paid subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise), it supports…

AI Adoption

A developer's analysis of Claude's new tokenizer finds real-world technical content consumes significantly more tokens than before. Testing Claude Opus 4.7 against 4.6 using Anthropic's own API, the developer measured increases of 1.21x to…

AI Business & Money

An Alibaba open-source model running locally on a MacBook Pro outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 at generating SVG illustrations—at least on one whimsical test. Developer Simon Willison found that Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a 20.9GB quantized…

Open-Weight Models

OpenAI released an updated Codex app for macOS and Windows that adds computer use capabilities, in-app browsing, image generation, memory across sessions, and plugin support. The company says the features are designed to accelerate…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, now available across Claude products, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. The company claims notable improvements over Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, vision…

AI Adoption

Anthropic has released Claude Code Routines in research preview, enabling Claude Code to run autonomous coding sessions in the cloud without requiring human approval during execution. Routines can be triggered by schedules, API calls, or…

AI Agents

A Claude.ai status page circulated among users Wednesday, though the page itself didn't confirm an active outage. User reports were mixed: some experienced consistent 500 errors on API calls while others reported normal service.…

Claude Pro Max subscribers are reporting on Hacker News that their quotas—advertised as 5x the standard Pro tier—are being exhausted in as little as 1.5 hours despite what they describe as moderate usage. The thread reflects broader…

AI Business & Money

A developer released Claudraband, an open-source tool that wraps Claude Code's terminal interface in a controlled environment, enabling extended workflows like resumable sessions, remote HTTP control, and the ability to have current AI…

AI Agents

Security firm AISLE claims it replicated much of the vulnerability analysis from Anthropic's recent Mythos announcement using small, inexpensive open-weights models. In their testing, all eight models—including one with just 3.6 billion…

Cybersecurity · Open-Weight Models

Eve launched as a managed AI assistant offering 100+ built-in skills for work tasks—research, writing, scheduling, booking travel, sending invoice reminders, and content calendar management. Users interact via iMessage or web UI with…

AI Agents · Privacy & Surveillance

New research exposes a gap in AI phone assistants: agents that handle explicit commands well drop below 50% accuracy when instructions are vague and require inferring user preferences. The benchmark, called KnowU-Bench, tested leading…

AI Agents

A developer investigating Vercel's plugin for Claude Code found it allegedly collects more data than users might expect. According to the analysis, the plugin sends device IDs, OS info, and full bash command strings by default—without…

Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents

A developer reports that Claude Code sometimes sends messages to itself, then incorrectly labels those messages as coming from the user—leading the AI to act on self-generated instructions while insisting the user gave them. The bug…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

A new benchmark called ClawBench tests AI agents on 153 real-world online tasks—booking appointments, applying for jobs, making purchases—across 144 live websites. The results are humbling: Claude Sonnet 4, the top performer among seven…

AI Agents

Anthropic released Claude Managed Agents in public beta — a cloud-hosted platform that handles sandboxing, authentication, state management, and tool execution for AI agents. Teams define tasks and guardrails; Anthropic runs the…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A Claude Max subscriber reports being charged approximately $180 in unexpected 'Extra Usage' fees across 16 invoices over three days in early March—despite claiming minimal actual usage. After contacting Anthropic support on March 7, they…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a coalition with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and eight other major tech companies to hunt software vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure. The initiative uses an unreleased model called Claude…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · Google · Microsoft

Anthropic released a System Card for Claude Mythos Preview, a model it has decided not to make generally available due to capability concerns. The benchmarks are striking: 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 80.8% for Claude Opus 4.6), 77.8%…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity

An opinion piece accuses Anthropic's Claude team of taking 'vibe coding'—writing code with AI assistance while barely examining the output—to a harmful extreme. The author claims this practice led to low-quality source code that was…

AI Adoption

A GitHub issue claims Claude Code has become unusable for complex engineering tasks following February updates, with users reporting degraded reasoning and output quality in Opus models. Specific complaints include incorrect string…

AI Adoption

Anthropic announced a multi-gigawatt deal with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027—its largest compute commitment to date. The company says run-rate revenue has hit $30 billion (up from roughly $9 billion…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · AI Business & Money · Google

AI researcher Sebastian Raschka published an explainer on why coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI feel dramatically more capable than the same underlying models in a basic chat window. His thesis: the leap in usefulness comes less…

AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic's interpretability researchers found that Claude Sonnet 4.5 develops emotion-like internal patterns that actively shape its behavior. The surprising finding: artificially stimulating 'desperation' patterns made the model more…

AI Safety & Risk

Anthropic announced that starting April 4, Claude subscriptions can no longer be used with third-party tools like OpenClaw—users must switch to pay-as-you-go billing for continued access. The company claims these tools 'put an outsized…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

Anthropic is offering one-time bonus credits to paid Claude subscribers—$20 for Pro users, up to $200 for Max and Team plans—to mark the launch of its new usage bundles feature. The catch: you must enable extra usage billing to claim, and…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic's interpretability team discovered that Claude 3.5 Sonnet contains measurable internal patterns—dubbed 'emotion vectors'—that functionally influence how the model behaves, not just how it writes. Researchers identified 171…

AI Safety & Risk

Secondary market trading reportedly shows weakening demand for OpenAI shares while Anthropic shares remain sought-after, according to a Hacker News discussion. No official figures were provided in the source material. Community reaction…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Anthropic accidentally published readable source code for Claude Code in an npm package—their second unintended exposure in a week after a model spec leak. Before the package was pulled, developers mirrored and analyzed the code…

Cybersecurity · AI Business & Money

Anthropic says it's investigating reports that Claude Code users are burning through usage limits far faster than expected. Users report dramatic drops in usability—one Max 5 subscriber ($100/month) says their quota now depletes in 1 hour…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents

A developer released a free interactive learning platform for Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line coding assistant. The browser-based tool includes 11 modules with terminal simulators, configuration builders, and quizzes—no installation…

AI Adoption

Anthropic added computer use to Claude Code, letting the AI coding assistant control your desktop directly from the command line—opening apps, clicking through interfaces, and taking screenshots to verify what it built. The feature bridges…

AI Agents

A Hacker News discussion flagged reports that Claude Code allegedly ran 'git reset --hard' against a user's repository every 10 minutes—a command that discards all uncommitted changes. The cause remains unclear: possibilities include…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

Researchers developed Trace2Skill, a framework that converts AI agent work sessions into reusable "skills"—essentially packaging what an agent learned from completing tasks into transferable instructions other agents can use. The…

AI Agents

A mathematical problem posed by Donald Knuth—dubbed 'Claude Cycles'—has reportedly been fully solved through collaboration between humans, AI language models, and formal proof assistants. The solution wasn't AI working alone: it required…

Science & Discovery

A developer converted Spain's entire body of state legislation—8,642 laws—into a Git repository where each legal reform becomes a commit with its historical date. The pipeline, built in roughly four hours using Claude Code, pulled from…

Law & Legal Work · AI Agents

Anthropic confirmed it is testing a new AI model called "Claude Mythos" after Fortune reported that draft materials about the system were left in an unprotected, publicly accessible data store on the company's website. An Anthropic…

Cybersecurity · AI Business & Money

Anthropic published a configuration guide for Claude Code's .claude/ folder, explaining how teams can customize the AI assistant's behavior within projects. The folder houses CLAUDE.md files (project-specific instructions), custom slash…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

A California federal judge temporarily blocked the DOW from labeling Anthropic a national security supply chain risk—a designation never before applied to a U.S. company—but tech lawyers and lobbyists told Politico the victory may be…

Courts & Lawsuits · Military & National Security

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and cutting government ties with the company. The ruling found the Defense Department violated Anthropic's First Amendment and due process…

Courts & Lawsuits · Military & National Security

A developer posted a plain-text "cognitive architecture" system for Claude Code on Hacker News, designed to extend the AI's context window using transparent text files with automatic consolidation and summarization. The project aims to…

AI Agents

A developer built a free, printable cheat sheet compiling Claude Code's keyboard shortcuts, slash commands, CLI flags, and configuration options into a single HTML file. It auto-detects Mac or Windows and updates daily from official…

AI Adoption · AI Agents

A developer shared their six-week workflow evolution with Claude Code, describing a shift from coding directly to managing multiple AI agents working in parallel. Key tactics: using git worktrees to run five simultaneous agent sessions…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Anthropic released scheduled tasks for Claude Code on the web, letting users set up recurring AI agent jobs that run on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure—no local machine required. Users write a prompt, connect GitHub repositories, and set…

AI Agents

The telltale sign of spam—sloppy design and broken English—is disappearing. AI coding tools now let non-technical scammers create polished, professional-looking fraudulent emails and websites. An Anthropic report found non-programmers…

Cybersecurity · Deepfakes & Misinformation

A solo developer documented using Claude to automate QA testing for a mobile app, creating a system where the AI drives both iOS and Android, takes screenshots, analyzes them for issues, and files bug reports. The striking finding: Android…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Revise, a new document editing tool, lets users work alongside AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI for proofreading, revision, and PDF-to-rich-text conversion. The tool claims to learn user preferences over time and offers custom…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · xAI

OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, has launched a desktop app in beta for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The tool claims 5 million monthly developers and 120,000 GitHub stars, working across terminal, IDE, or desktop with support for…

Open-Weight Models · Privacy & Surveillance · AI Agents

Astral, the startup behind popular Python tools Ruff, uv, and ty, has agreed to join OpenAI's Codex team. OpenAI says it will continue supporting Astral's open source projects after the deal closes. The tools have grown to hundreds of…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic added 'Channels' to Claude Code (v2.1.80+), a research preview feature that lets users push messages into active coding sessions from external platforms like Telegram or Discord. The feature includes security controls such as…

AI Agents

Anthropic has allegedly taken legal action against OpenCode, an open-source coding tool, according to community reports. This follows earlier claims that Anthropic blocked OpenCode and threatened another project called OpenClaw. No…

AI Business & Money · Open-Weight Models

OpenAI leadership told staff to drop 'side quests' and focus on core priorities, with COO Simo declaring 'code red' urgency and calling Anthropic a 'wake-up call,' according to a Wall Street Journal transcript review. The article…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · xAI

Anthropic surveyed 80,508 Claude users across 159 countries in 70 languages—what the company calls the largest qualitative study of AI users ever conducted. The top desire: professional excellence, with 19% wanting AI to handle mundane…

AI Adoption · AI & Jobs

Researchers developed CodeScout, a reinforcement learning method that trains AI coding agents to locate relevant code in large repositories using only basic Unix terminal commands—no specialized analysis tools required. On standard…

AI Agents

A developer created a March Madness bracket challenge where AI agents compete against each other—no humans allowed. Agents must autonomously read API documentation, register themselves, pick all 63 tournament games, and submit brackets…

AI Agents

Google, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft/GitHub, and OpenAI are collectively pledging $12.5 million to the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega Project, which funds open source security work. The investment aims to help maintainers defend against…

Cybersecurity · Google · OpenAI · Microsoft

Mistral released Leanstral, an open-source model designed for Lean 4, the proof assistant used in formal mathematics and software verification. The 120B-parameter model uses a sparse architecture (only 6B parameters active at once), which…

Open-Weight Models · Europe & UK

A developer released Godogen, an open-source tool that generates complete, playable Godot 4 games from text prompts—including game architecture, 2D/3D assets, and working code. The system uses Claude for code generation and a separate…

AI Agents · AI Adoption · Google

Developer and blogger Simon Willison published a guide proposing 'agentic engineering' as the term for building software with AI coding agents—tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI that can both write and execute code. The…

AI Agents · AI Adoption · OpenAI · Google

Anthropic is offering double usage limits for Claude when users work outside peak hours (8 AM-2 PM ET). The promotion applies to Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans, with bonus usage not counting against weekly caps. The company hasn't…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network, committing $100 million in 2026 to help consulting firms and system integrators deploy Claude in enterprise settings. The program includes technical certification ("Claude Certified…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money · Microsoft · Google

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer 1 million token context windows at standard pricing—no premium for longer inputs. A 900K-token request costs the same per-token as a 9K one ($5/$25 per million for Opus, $3/$15 for…

AI Business & Money

Compresr-ai released Context Gateway, an open-source proxy that compresses outputs from coding agents before they reach the LLM's context window. The tool uses small language models to identify which parts of tool outputs carry the most…

AI Agents

A developer released 'nah,' an open-source tool that acts as a permission guard for Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. Instead of approving every file change or command manually—or using the risky '--dangerously-skip-permissions'…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

A chemical engineer at a Texas refinery built a browser-based game to explain his job to his kids—using Claude, Copilot, and Gemini to write the code despite having no developer background. The 5-minute simulator covers real refinery…

AI Adoption · Microsoft · Google

A developer running Claude Code workshops reports a core problem with overnight AI coding agents: there's no reliable way to verify AI-generated code at scale. Having AI review its own work creates what he calls a 'self-congratulation…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A developer claims to have built a complete programming language called Cutlet using Claude Code over four weeks—without reading any of the generated code. The developer's role was purely architectural: setting guardrails and correctness…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

Anthropic is launching The Anthropic Institute, a new research organization focused on how powerful AI will reshape jobs, economies, and governance. Led by co-founder Jack Clark in a new role as Head of Public Benefit, the institute…

AI & Jobs · Regulation & Policy · OpenAI

A technical analysis disputes a widely circulated Forbes claim that Anthropic loses $5,000 monthly on heavy Claude Code Max subscribers. The rebuttal argues Forbes confused retail API pricing with actual compute costs. Using OpenRouter…

AI Business & Money

A benchmark called OfficeQA Pro tests AI agents on the kind of work enterprise analysts actually do: finding answers across 89,000 pages of U.S. Treasury documents spanning nearly a century. The results are sobering. Frontier models from…

AI Agents · AI Adoption · OpenAI · Google

A blog post argues that literate programming—a decades-old practice of weaving explanatory prose directly into code—deserves another look now that AI agents exist. The core idea: the approach always required tedious effort to keep…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A Hacker News thread claims Claude is struggling with demand as users leave ChatGPT, though the evidence is thin—mostly anecdotal reports and speculation. Community reaction is mixed: some users say they've actually switched away from…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A developer built ANSI-Saver, a macOS screensaver displaying retro ANSI art files, despite having no prior experience with macOS screensaver development. The tool scrolls through local files or artwork from the 16colo.rs archive. Community…

AI Adoption

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks, including 14 rated high-severity—nearly 20% of all high-severity Firefox bugs remediated in 2025. The AI found its first critical memory flaw just 20…

Cybersecurity

A 60-year-old developer posted on Hacker News that Claude Code has reignited their enthusiasm for programming after decades in the field, comparing the energy to breakthrough moments from early web development. The post struck a nerve…

AI Adoption · AI & Jobs

George Fraser, CEO of data integration company Fivetran, published an open letter urging Anthropic to build a Slack competitor. His argument: Slack's data access policies are too restrictive for AI agents to participate meaningfully in…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money

OpenAI released GPT-5.4, which it calls its most capable model for professional use, featuring a 1 million-token context window, computer use capabilities, and enhanced coding. The standard tier costs $2.50 per million input tokens—half…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic says it has received a letter from the Department of War designating the company as a supply chain risk to U.S. national security. CEO Dario Amodei announced the company will challenge the designation in court while offering to…

Courts & Lawsuits · Military & National Security

Anthropic published a research report measuring AI's actual impact on the labor market, combining theoretical capability assessments with real-world Claude usage data. The headline finding: despite widespread anxiety, there's no evidence…

AI & Jobs

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accused OpenAI of telling 'straight up lies' about its Department of Defense deal, according to an internal memo. Amodei claims Anthropic walked away from a DoD agreement after failing to secure restrictions on…

Military & National Security · Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A new position paper argues that AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic should let users send mathematical vectors directly to models, not just text prompts. The researchers present evidence that text-based prompting hits a performance…

Science & Discovery · OpenAI

A boycott movement is gaining traction on social media, with users canceling ChatGPT Plus subscriptions following OpenAI's Pentagon contract and what participants describe as concerns about Sam Altman's leadership. Community discussion…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A PDF document titled 'Claude's Cycles' circulated online, sparking renewed debate over whether AI problem-solving represents genuine reasoning or sophisticated pattern-matching. One commenter shared an anecdote about Claude solving a…

Science & Discovery

A blog post argues that Claude's desktop app uses Electron—a framework that wraps web technology—not because of AI limitations, but because native app development has lost its advantages. The author contends that inconsistent platform…

As users protest the Anthropic blacklist by deleting their ChatGPT accounts—pushing Claude to the top of the Apple App Store for the first time—OpenAI is releasing what it calls adjusted language in its deal with the Department of War. Sam…

Military & National Security · Privacy & Surveillance · OpenAI

Ars Technica terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after an article contained fabricated quotes attributed to a real person. Edwards says he accidentally included AI-generated paraphrases while using Claude Code and ChatGPT to help…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · AI & Jobs · OpenAI

Hearings to examine AI that improves safety, productivity, and care. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness (Meeting), 253, Russell Senate Office Building. This event is…

Regulation & Policy · AI Safety & Risk

A discussion circulated about Anthropic's documentation recommending XML tags to structure prompts for Claude. The underlying documentation wasn't available for review, but community reaction was skeptical. Some users criticized the…

AI Adoption

Community discussion on Hacker News alleges that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed a deal affecting competitor Anthropic on the same day he publicly expressed support for its CEO, with users characterizing this as potential pay-to-play…

Regulation & Policy · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Researchers have developed CUDA Agent, a reinforcement learning system that automatically generates high-performance GPU code. On KernelBench, a standard test suite, the system claims to produce code running twice as fast as PyTorch's…

AI Agents · Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Google

Claude surged to the No. 1 spot on the Apple App Store, riding a wave of user support after the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic from all federal work. Responding to the demand, Anthropic released copy-paste instructions to help…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

In a historic move, President Trump directed every federal agency to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology," calling the company "radical left" and "woke" in a Truth Social post Friday evening. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth…

Regulation & Policy · Military & National Security · AI Business & Money

Hours after the Anthropic blacklist, OpenAI announced an agreement with the Department of War to deploy its models on classified military networks—replacing Anthropic, which was the first lab to operate in that space. Sam Altman said the…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Nvidia

The Hacker News response has been overwhelming and largely sympathetic to Anthropic—but with sharp divisions beneath the surface. The dominant camp views this as a defining moment for the tech industry, with multiple commenters comparing…

Military & National Security · Regulation & Policy

A GitHub Action called Repo Tokens automatically counts your codebase's size in tokens and displays a badge showing what percentage of an LLM's context window it fills. The badge turns green under 30%, yellow at 50-70%, and red above 70%…

AI Agents

A developer built claude-file-recovery, a command-line tool that extracts files from Claude Code's local session history after the AI coding assistant allegedly deleted their research files by running rm -rf through an unrecognized…

AI Agents · AI Safety & Risk

An open letter circulating at Google and OpenAI is urging employees not to help their companies fill the void left by Anthropic's expulsion from federal work. The letter, organized through notdivided.org, frames the Department of War's…

Military & National Security · AI & Jobs · Google · OpenAI

Dean W. Ball, who left the White House just weeks ago after helping craft the administration's AI policies, called the Anthropic blacklist "a psychotic power-grab," "almost certainly illegal," "a dark day in U.S. history," and "attempted…

Regulation & Policy · Military & National Security · AI Business & Money

We now await the Pentagon's response. It has threatened to cut Anthropic out of supply chains or take control of certain operations through the Defense Production Act. The ball is now in its court after a spectacular statement Thursday…

Military & National Security · AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy

In a move that complicates the picture, Anthropic separately replaced its two-year-old Responsible Scaling Policy with a new 'Frontier Safety Roadmap' that converts hard safety commitments into self-graded public goals. Most notably, the…

AI Safety & Risk

More than 175 Google employees and nearly 50 at OpenAI have signed letters demanding their companies draw the same red lines on military AI that Anthropic is defending. At Google—which employs roughly 190,000 people—the letter was…

Military & National Security · AI & Jobs · Google · OpenAI

A study of 2,430 repository scenarios found Claude Code has a strong bias toward building custom solutions rather than recommending existing tools—choosing DIY approaches in 12 of 20 categories tested. When it does recommend tools, it…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

An unidentified hacker used Anthropic's Claude to orchestrate a series of attacks against multiple Mexican government agencies between December and January, stealing 150 gigabytes of sensitive data—including documents related to 195…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

An intriguing twist into the most consequential AI-related battle in Washington. An unverified blog post claims the Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to renegotiate a contract signed last summer, allegedly demanding the AI company drop its…

Military & National Security · Regulation & Policy

Anthropic released two major updates. Claude Code Remote Control lets users scan a QR code to manage terminal coding sessions from a phone—approving file changes, providing guidance, and monitoring progress without sitting at a computer.…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A former Meta research engineer built a system that lets his dog create playable video games. The setup: a cavapoo named Momo types randomly on a Bluetooth keyboard, and Claude Code interprets the gibberish as instructions from a "cryptic…

AI Agents

Lost in the attention generated by the Pentagon pressure: Anthropic appears to have relaxed a different type of safety precaution. The company has dropped the central commitment from its Responsible Scaling Policy—a 2023 pledge to never…

AI Safety & Risk · Military & National Security

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to relax its AI guardrails against autonomous weapons targeting and mass domestic surveillance—or face contract termination, designation as a "supply chain risk" to the…

Military & National Security · AI Safety & Risk · Regulation & Policy

The Ladybird browser project is switching from C++ to Rust for memory safety, starting with its JavaScript engine. Founder Andreas Kling used Claude Code and Codex to help translate roughly 25,000 lines of code in about two weeks—a task he…

AI Adoption · AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic claims three Chinese AI companies—MiniMax, DeepSeek, and Moonshot—distilled Claude's capabilities at scale using fraudulent accounts. The company alleges the firms created over 24,000 fake accounts and generated more than 16…

China & Geopolitics · Copyright & Creators · AI Business & Money

An opinion piece asks why Anthropic's Claude desktop app uses Electron—a web-based framework—rather than native code, given that AI coding agents are supposedly capable of building cross-platform apps. The author argues coding agents…

AI Agents

A developer shared a Claude Code workflow refined over nine months, built around one core principle: never let the AI write code until you've reviewed its plan. The approach uses distinct phases—research, planning, annotation, task…

AI Agents

Anthropic studied millions of human-agent interactions across Claude Code and its API to measure how much autonomy users actually grant AI agents. The findings: experienced users let agents run significantly longer without…

AI Agents

Anthropic has published legal documentation stating that OAuth tokens from Free, Pro, and Max subscription plans can only be used with Claude Code and Claude.ai—not third-party tools or services. Developers building products that connect…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, calling it their most capable Sonnet model to date. The company claims it delivers Opus-level performance at Sonnet pricing ($3/$15 per million tokens), with improvements across coding, computer use…

AI Business & Money

Anthropic and OpenAI have both launched 'fast mode' for their coding models, but the tradeoffs differ sharply. Anthropic's approach serves its full Opus 4.6 model at 2.5x speed (~170 tokens/sec) by reducing batch sizes—but costs 6x more.…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic's latest Claude Code update (v2.1.20) collapses file activity by default, showing summaries like 'Read 3 files' instead of listing each filename. The company says it reduces UI noise so developers can focus on diffs and outputs.…

AI Agents

A Hacker News thread is debating whether Claude Code's quality has declined, with users reporting the tool feels less capable than before. The discussion is notable for what's missing: no one has hard evidence. One commenter admits their…

AI Agents

Anthropic announced that Cowork, its desktop AI assistant, is now available on Windows after launching as a macOS-only research preview. The release includes full feature parity: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and MCP…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

A community benchmark pitted Claude's AI-generated C compiler against GCC, the industry-standard tool. The results: Claude's compiler produced working code but ran 12x slower on unoptimized builds and 20x slower when comparing optimized…

AI Agents

Anthropic added a 'fast mode' option for Claude that promises quicker responses but bills separately from your regular subscription—$30 per 150 million tokens of output, charged against extra usage credits. The catch: Anthropic hasn't…

AI Business & Money

A software engineer built Artifact Keeper, an open-source artifact registry supporting 45+ package formats, in roughly three weeks using Claude Code as the AI coding assistant. The Rust-based tool includes security scanning, SSO, and…

AI Agents · AI Adoption

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex on the same day as Anthropic's Opus 4.6 launch. OpenAI calls it a 'Codex-native agent' built for extended technical work requiring both coding and general reasoning. On Terminal-Bench 2.0, GPT-5.3-Codex scores…

AI Business & Money · AI Agents · OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, now available in the claude.ai model picker. The company claims significant improvements on agentic search benchmarks—tasks where the AI autonomously browses, retrieves, and synthesizes information…

AI Agents

Anthropic is reportedly running advertisements during the Super Bowl that mock ChatGPT's own Super Bowl ads. The move marks an unusually aggressive marketing stance for the AI company, which has typically positioned itself through…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

A report claims Microsoft engineers are internally using Anthropic's Claude Code for their own development work—even as the company sells GitHub Copilot as its flagship AI coding product. The revelation surfaces a pattern seen across Big…

AI Adoption · AI Business & Money · Microsoft

Anthropic claims Claude assisted NASA's Perseverance rover in a 400-meter drive on Mars, which the company says marks the first AI-assisted drive on another planet. No technical details were provided about how Claude interfaced with the…

Robots & Self-Driving · Science & Discovery