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Anthropic donates Agent Skills standard to Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation, joining Model Context Protocol as open community standard.

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic's $2.1 million and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington, the sums aren't out of the ordinary. Microsoft, for example, has spent at least $2 million a quarter going back to 2021, and Google regularly spends over $3 million, including this quarter. But it's a clear signal that the thre...

Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users

An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge. Citrini Research, the firm behind the experiment, admitted that "none of us could claim to know anything about AI as it related to biology." That didn't stop it from trying to make a drug from scratch - or publishing a blog post titled "We Wanted to Use Claude to Create a New Drug...

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is built around Claude Opus 5.5. Here's Anthropic's description of what it can do: Each morning, it sends you a short brief on the most important items across your connected apps. Throughout the day, it keeps tabs on those apps and messages you only when something needs ...

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

Anthropic establishes Public Benefit Fund with escalating share commitment tied to company growth.

The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

Anthropic's Claude shifts code review from PR gate to continuous in-editor assistance, catching routine errors before human review.

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad made the comments during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

Anthropic grants METR independent evaluator access to Claude systems; exploring partnerships with Hugging Face and others for safety assessment.

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

Anthropic reported Q3 revenue of $16.8bn (50% QoQ growth), $1.70 revenue-per-compute-dollar, and 11% adjusted operating margins ahead of IPO.

OpenAI and Anthropic discuss autonomy-safety tradeoffs for financial agents at AI Engineer New York, balancing utility with control.

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest models coming out of China, impressive as they were, appeared to be playing catch-up. Then, in the space of a few days, everything changed. Google and Meta both unveiled frontier models they claim can go toe to toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthrop...

Anthropic updates election safeguards for 2026 US midterms, building on previous security measures to prevent misuse.

Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, depending on who you ask, the prospect of models spreading uncontrollably across household appliances is either an imminent cybersecurity risk or another case of AI companies spreading doomer-tinged hype. In a blog post published this week, Anthropic warn...

"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore government on safe AI adoption.

Anthropic built custom source control replacing Git to handle 30k daily code merges (12x increase since May 2026), correlating with model release velocity.

Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project's developers have been given an "AI-first" mandate directing them to use tools like Anthropic's Claude more to finish the game. According to Bloomberg, one of the game's directors said in a message to staff, "No more hand-written code." Staff were also told that all of the game's art will be "generated with full AI workflows." In a statement given to Bloomberg, Epic Games spokesperson Jake Jones said ...

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…

“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.