[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 matching Fable performance at half the cost, demonstrating efficiency gains in model distillation.
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 matching Fable performance at half the cost, demonstrating efficiency gains in model distillation.
Claude Opus 5 achieves lowest prompt injection vulnerability rate across evals and red team testing, per Anthropic's system card.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, matching Fable 5 frontier performance at half the cost, now leading Artificial Analysis leaderboard.
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with improvements in agent execution, coding, and professional tasks.
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government's ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.) The Fable 5 concerns -...
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering answers to quick questions with minimal delay. But in a blog post, the company said people immediately started using voice mode for far more than casual queries. They were using it to work "through real business problems," which Haiku was not really designed for. T...
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop Kimi K3.
Anthropic launches Economic Index connector for Claude, enabling exploration of AI and work data through conversational interface.
Anthropic outlines research priorities for its Economic Futures Research Fund, focusing on AI's labor and economic impacts.
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios rack-scale system, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The companies plan to deploy the first gigawatt in the first half of 2027, building upon recent data center deals Anthropic has reached with SpaceX and TeraWulf. Anthropic has also signed AI infrastructure deals with Google, Broadcom...
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Anthropic donates additional $20M to Public First Action, totaling $40M commitment to AI policy advocacy.
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book allegedly pirated by Anthropic. The $1.5 billion settlement is the "largest known copyright recovery in history," according to the law firm representing the plaintiffs. A group of authors - Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Jo...
Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model is built upon Gemini 3.5 Flash and will be available first to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, Google's security-focused coding agent. As noted by Google, CodeMender can call upon 3.5 Flash Cyber "multiple times at hig...
Anthropic engineers discuss Claude Code, Claude Tag Slack integration, coding agent security, and internal tool usage in fireside chat.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 20 2026: People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Ass...
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical influence. The opening salvo came from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, one of China's leading AI model developers, which unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. Moonshot claims its own testing ranks it consistently ab...
Anthropic makes Claude Fable 5 permanent in Max/Team Premium at 50% limits; Pro users get $100 credit amid GPT-5.6 Sol competition.
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
Anthropic launches $50k Claude credit grants for rare genetic disease research, seeking to build AI for Science researcher community.
1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel and managing online accounts on their behalf without having to manually input their login credentials, but without actually exposing your security information to Anthropic's AI models, according to 1Password. That's made possible by a new "zero-exposure security framework" developed by 1Password, which works by inje...
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid to avoid lock-in, and real-time fiscal control over token burn remains the exception. This wave of VentureBeat Pulse Research examines enterprise agent orchestration: which platforms enterprises run on, what dr...
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, […]
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.
Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers, an educational product tier for classroom use with curriculum resources and safety guardrails.
Anthropic pledges $10M to Canadian AI research initiatives, expanding regional R&D presence.
In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 availability through July 19 on paid plans, citing compute constraints and GPT-5.6 Sol positioning.
Anthropic partners with UST to deploy Claude in physical AI systems and robotics applications.
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. In recent months, OpenAI has also shut down the video generation app Sora and paused plans for a ChatGPT "adult mode" as it works to reduce "side quests" and catch up with Anthropic on productivity features. In a thread about the ChatGPT Work announcements, w...
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…
Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, signaling governance structure for AI safety oversight.
Anthropic launches public Q&A initiative to address community concerns about AI safety and development practices.
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.
Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000.
The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, three months, six months, or year. Anthropic bills the reflection dashboard as a way to "see your patterns and shape them," the company wrote in a blog post. It begins with a summary of an individual's key topics brought up with Claude, as well as types of tasks they delegate and th...
Anthropic ships usage tracking and reflection feature for Claude, enabling users to monitor API/app consumption patterns.
Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, but now users on iOS and Android can also use it. However, Anthropic says the "full experience" for Cowork will still be on the desktop app, including features like local file access. Cowork sessions will also now run in the cloud by default, so you can continue ...
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.
Simon Willison reports Anthropic's Claude Code team recommends letting Fable/Opus apply autonomous judgment on tasks like testing rather than prescribing workflows.
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions," and touted a long list of biotech and pharma customers already using Claude. Anthropic also went a ste...
Anthropic details Fable 5's cybersecurity safeguards and releases jailbreak testing framework for red-teaming.
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We're grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models. In early June, Anthropic sidelined Fable 5 - its consumer-facing model built the same ...
US Department of Commerce lifts export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5; access restoration begins tomorrow.
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5, a frontier model optimized for coding, agents, and professional workflows at scale.
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Anthropic relaunches Fable 5 globally July 1 and proposes industry jailbreak-severity scoring framework with Amazon, Microsoft, Google.
Anthropic launches Claude Science, a customizable workbench integrating research tools, auditable artifacts, and compute resources for scientific workflows.
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
Industry experience paper catalogs five MCP server architectural patterns across 15 production implementations post-Anthropic November 2024 release.
China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is particularly concerning to the US government, which has worked to restrict China's access to powerful models like Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, as well as the hardware necessary to train and run them. The ...
Austria proposes hosting Anthropic operations in Europe in response to US export restrictions on AI model access.
Brief dismissive commentary on Anthropic-related concerns; lacks substantive detail or newsworthy content.
Margaret Atwood onstage at Detroit Opera House on January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words. According to Deadline's recap, Atwood said she'd used an AI chatbot exactly once, Anthropic's Claude, and came away unimpressed. She was looking for information about the British detective series Father Brown and, well: "Claude gave ...
Axios report: Anthropic's Fable 5 model expected to return to availability soon following regulatory discussions.
US government insiders expect restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 model to be lifted within the week, per Axios reporting.
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.
Trump administration approves Anthropic release of Mythos AI to select US organizations.
Hypothetical argument that preferential US access to Fable 5 could force other countries to ban Anthropic technology for economic protection.
Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.
Reddit discussion questioning prevalence of Claude bots in Anthropic subreddit.
After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of organizations, according to a letter from the government to Anthropic that was viewed by The Verge. Fable 5, however - the public-facing Mythos-class model - appears to still be in limbo, with no apparent timeline for a rollout agreement. The letter, dated June 26th and sent by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, who had been recently leading negotiations, states that t...
User complaint about unresolved refund and support loop for Anthropic Max subscription.
Trump administration permits Anthropic to release Mythos AI model to select US companies and government agencies.
Anthropic reportedly negotiating with US government to lift restrictions on AI model access, following Fable suspension.
Lighthearted suggestion that Anthropic should use friendlier model naming conventions.
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
User critique of Anthropic's customer support responsiveness following Fable suspension due to US government directive.
It's been two weeks since Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration. The company sprang into action immediately, sending a barrage of executives to Washington, DC. But updates have been suspiciously lacking, with no resolution in sight. Anthropic declined to comment multiple times this week about the state of the talks, saying there was no news to share. But the lack of news is the story here. After 14 days of high-intensity negotiations, nobody knows when or if Anthropic's most powerful AI models will come back, let alone wh...
Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.
Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.
Alex Bores (D-NY) enters his watch party at The Freehand Hotel after conceding the congressional race to Micah Lasher who will replace Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in NY's 12th Congressional District on June 23, 2026 in New York City. | Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images. The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pro-AI super PAC, narrowly lost the Democratic primary to represent New York's 12th Congressional district. Prior to the race, Bores, ...
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.