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Anthropic released Blender MCP connector enabling Claude to directly control Blender via Python API for real-time 3D scene generation and modification.

Xiami mimo-v2.5 pro (MIT license) ranks #9 on Arena coding leaderboard, outperforming Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 (#10).

Opus 4.7 on Max effort decided to create a new email template by itself (which is pretty stupid btw) and mass mailed it to the whole database (some emails were repeatedly sent 20x). Before you ask me - yes, [CLAUDE.md](http://CLAUDE.md) has the exact rule for that, it's supposed to email the tester before any new email templates are to be used in production. I have created this safety rule a few months ago. I feel like the Opus 4.7 is a huge letdown the way it's been downgraded. If Anthropic is "pushing the boundaries", it's probably only in the meaning of how far they can push the...

4.6 was amazing, it did the job well even if it needed some back and forth sometimes to clarify things. but it reacted well, even to complex modifications. and what was really amazing was the sort of form that pops up to ask you questions to narrow the scope of the request. 4.7 talks too much, drifts away, burns a tone of token and then asks you questions by talking too much again. questions are not even relevant. the outputs are either simplish either badly complex and non-sense. I think anthropic wanted to give 4.7 more depth or something, maybe it does get more ...

Anthropic positions Claude for creative writing and design tasks; feature/capability announcement targeting non-technical users.

Reddit speculation that Anthropic deliberately under-provisioned capacity and is deprioritizing lower-value customers; unverified claim.

Reddit user criticizes Anthropic's usage rate limits as a friction point threatening platform retention versus competitors.

Claude’s new Blender connector lets you debug scenes, build new tools, and batch-apply object changes directly from the chatbot interface. | Image: Anthropic Anthropic has launched a set of connectors for Claude that allow the AI chatbot to tap into popular creative software, including Adobe's Creative Cloud apps, Affinity, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, and more. This marks the company's latest efforts to break into the creative industry following its launch of Claude Design earlier this month. The new connectors - which enable Claude to access apps, retrieve data, and take actions within conne...

I was overcharged by more than $100, so I opened a billing ticket last month. They only responded yesterday and said everything looked fine because they refunded me $100 in credits. They didn’t give me any option to choose between a refund to my card or credits, but I can let that go... The worst part is what happened next: due to what seems like an error on their side, I lost access to my plan. I no longer have 5x Max and my account now shows as Free. This is insane. Do I really have to wait another month to fix this while not having access to the service I already paid for? My billing c...

Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose," The Information reports. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in "inhumane or extremely harmful ways." If the agreement is confirmed, it would place Google alongside OpenAI and xAI, which have also made classified AI deals with the US government. Anthropic was also among that list until it was blacklisted by the Pentagon for refusing...

Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The tools had scanned 54 million lines of actual software code that DARPA had injected with artificial flaws. The teams were capable enough to identify most of the artificial bugs, but their automated tools went beyond that - they found more than a dozen bugs that DARPA hadn't inserted at all. Even before the security earthquake that Anthropic delivered this month with Claude Mythos - the...

Menlo Ventures' enterprise survey put Anthropic at 40% of LLM spend, OpenAI at 27%. The takes I've seen are mostly about the leaderboard. The thing nobody's saying out loud: the standard agent-reliability advice ("don't depend on one provider, add a fallback") got harder to actually execute, not easier. When the split was closer to 50/30, both providers were realistic peers. You could run prod on one and have the other warm. Now most of us are running primarily on Claude — Sonnet for tool calls, Opus for harder stuff — and the "fallback" is a model we haven't tested against our actual prompt...

Rant on Anthropic Support I have two macbooks. One is an Air and the other is a Pro. On my Pro model the Claude Code stopped working inside the official anthropic application altogether. Whenever I would type a message, it would create a session w/ a summary of the name but wouldn't ever do anything. Just a blank screen. No error messages, nothing. I spent forever troubleshooting it, pulling logs, reinstalling, clearing cache, etc. to no avail Reached out to Anthropic, got their AI bot, once it couldn't solve my issue it forwarded my message to a human. It took over a month to get a...

Anthropic restricts Claude Opus access in Claude Code to Pro subscribers only via additional paid tier beyond $20/month subscription.

Anthropic appoints Theo Hourmouzis as GM for Australia & New Zealand and opens Sydney office.

Anthropic has angered Louis Rossmann... [Anthropic deserves mass chargebacks for predatory billing policies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnazGJzK4UY) Interesting suggestion for how to deal with billing errors.

Anthropic restricts Claude Code feature to Pro subscribers, requires separate token purchase for Opus model access.

This is pretty funny tho ngl

Anthropic evaluates Claude models (Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) for sabotage of AI safety research: finds zero unprompted or continuation-based sabotage.

Hey everyone, For over a week now, I've been trying to re-subscribe to the Pro plan from a free account, and I keep hitting the same wall: "*Payment failed. Please try again later. If the problem persists, contact support at https://support.anthropic.com/*" Here's the fun part: that link redirects you straight to Fin, their AI support chatbot. After 11 emails, the bot's only suggestion is… to go back to that same link. I've attached a screenshot of the last mail. I've already tried multiple devices, browsers, and network connections, double and triple-checking my billing info. I'm based i...

Reddit user reports Anthropic Claude remote environment defaults to GLM-4.7 instead of Claude models, raising questions about model sourcing.

Subscribed to Claude 20 Max two days ago (more than 200 euros/month...). Service was more than underwhelming, so I immediately requested refund after one day and a half and therefore within the 14-day withdrawal period guaranteed by Article L221-18 of the French Code de la consommation (EU Consumer Rights Directive). I wanted to terminate it right away because I am truly unhappy with it. Refused by an AI support agent ("Fin AI Agent") on the grounds that a refund had previously been issued on my account (of 20 euros in the past). This limitation does not appear in Anthropic's published Cons...

Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.

Reddit user reports Anthropic's support system lacks human escalation path for billing disputes, exposing structural gaps in customer service infrastructure.

Reddit post recounting Anthropic's growth from small user community to $1T valuation amid major cloud partnerships.

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.

TL;DR: If your git commits mention "HERMES.md" (uppercase), Claude Code quietly stops using your Max plan and starts billing you at API rates. Anthropic's support acknowledged the bug, thanked me for finding it, and refused a refund. Apparently their AI safety principles don't extend to your wallet. **The story** I'm on Max 20x ($200/month). Today Claude Code started throwing: \> "You're out of extra usage. Add more at [claude.ai/settings/usage](http://claude.ai/settings/usage) and keep going." Weird, because my plan dashboard showed 13% weekly usage and 0% current session. 86...

Reddit speculation about Anthropic pricing test reducing Claude Pro usage limits by 50% for subset of users.