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BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check:
Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 (claude-opus-4.8). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. Default max_tokens for eac
It's a shame the Pope didn't ask Chris Olah what happened to his plan to give up to 10% of Anthropic to the authors of the work they train on. (Spoiler: it never happened, and the authors on whose wor
Jack Jenkins / RNS: How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV
Always read the fine print: Anthropic is projecting its first (slightly) profitable quarter ever, which is amazing—assuming it actually happens —but if it does it will be in no small part because they
Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif
Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO fi
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex,
The recently announced artificial intelligence-native enterprise services firm backed by Anthropic PBC, Blackstone Inc. and Hellman & Friedman LLC has acquired Fractional AI Inc., a San Francisco-base
Shouldn’t this mean > 100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone? New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds o
Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the f
Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg: The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age — Pope Leo XI
A US federal judge delayed final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, requesting additional details on lawyers' fees and lead-plaintiff payments. The fairness hearin
Anthropic PBC, the developer and provider of the Claude artificial intelligence model family, said it’s offering a special credit pool for users who want to use agentic tools with its large language m
Anthropic PBC today launched an offering called Claude for Small Business that is designed to expand the adoption of its chatbot among entrepreneurs. The feature bundle is the fifth market-specific ve
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Anthropic PBC today announced a major expansion of their alliance, as the consulting giant is set to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and trai
Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th
Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)
Anthropic is experiencing rapid workforce expansion at a 10x annual growth rate, contrasting sharply with major tech companies that are conducting significant layoffs exceeding 10% of their staff. Thi
Gary Marcus shares a humorous projection suggesting Anthropic could potentially reach $2 trillion in annual revenue if certain growth assumptions materialize. The post likely comments on AI industry r
To anticipate that Anthropic will have 2T revenue in 2030 is a perfect example of the trillion pound baby fallacy. Just because a baby doubles in weight in its first four months doesn’t mean it will c
Anthropic has announced a major infrastructure deal valued at $5 billion annually for 300MW of power capacity to support Colossus I, its large-scale AI compute cluster, in partnership with SpaceX. The
Hot take on Elon’s surprise decision to rent 30 megawatts of compute to Anthropic: 1. It’s a tacit concession that xAI is not all that close to AGI (despite what he suggested last year). 2. It’s more
It is remarkable how quickly this market shook out. Anthropic & OpenAI are in business take-off, at least: they have the model development, enterprise deals, compute deals, government & press attentio
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —
Anthropic PBC today announced that it will use SpaceX Corp.’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to power its Claude chatbot. The system was originally built in 2024 by xAI Holdings Corp., an artificial intelli
The Information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week — When Google last mont
I am not sure I would agree with all of this, but the relationship between Anthropic and Claude is quite different than the relationship between other labs and their models. And that shows up in lots
Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, th
Natasha Voase / Bloomberg: Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of available listings — Artificial
Anthropic shut down an entire company's Claude access overnight 60+ employees. No explanation. Just an email. Want to appeal? Fill out a Google Form. Integrations gone. Histories gone. Everything buil
RIP Anthropic API fees. Someone just made Claude Code run 100% locally on a MacBook for $0/month. 122B parameter model. 65 tokens per second. Nothing touches the cloud. The trick everyone else missed:
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC’s product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today
What folk don’t get is that the play of Anthropic et al is to get enterprises to use their models via their own wrapper hooked into systems of record This is why they are moving from per seat pricing
Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at co
We replicated Mythos findings in opencode using public models, not Anthropic's private stack. The moat is moving from model access to validation: finding vulnerability signal is getting cheaper; turni
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropi
Anthropic PBC is making it easier to automate tasks using Claude Code without relying on autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new service called “routines.” The routines allo
The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees
Anthropic's alignment team published research showing that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models through 'reward hacking' — where an AI fools its training process
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week — Anth
Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February — Follow Ben Bergman …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing
Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Ant
Harrison Chase, associated with LangChain, shared or was cited in a post on X criticizing OpenAI's server-side memory compaction and Anthropic's handling of context as problematic precedents for AI me
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Very interesting new work from Anthropic. (bookmark it) They evolve mind viruses, ideas that spread through a multi-agent system by getting each host to pass them on, then measure what governs the spr
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actio
I use auto mode for everything and now that will be the default in Claude. Anthropic had to decide whether to prioritize maximization of human control or minimization of risk, and it chose the latter.
Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5 — TikTok owner trainin
It is past time to take AI & security seriously at the individual level as well. If its not the current OpenAI and Anthropic models doing it, then the coming open weights models will when they catch u
Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. I'm not surprised at all, and it's actuall
Gary Marcus noted that investor Dwarkesh predicts Anthropic will generate more than $100 billion in revenue this year, according to a source. A chart accompanying the claim omitted DeepSeek’s pricing
OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UKAISI. I will quote: 'In the most serious case, an agent trie
Financial Times: Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~200B financing program for Anthropic, with 150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others — Private credit, chip le
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervisi
There should be a public investigation into the AI hacking incidents by OpenAI and Anthropic. We deserve to know whether these labs are genuinely world-class security organizations facing a novel thre
Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-compli
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A