Anthropic has launched "Cyber Mission," a program to protect critical infrastructure and open-source software from cyberattacks. Partners like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks will help secure power grids and water systems, while a free AI scanner automatically checks open-source projects for vulnerabilities with an expected accuracy above 90 percent.
Anthropic is adding dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, letting a lead agent distribute tasks across up to 1,000 sub-agents at once. In testing, a single agent found at most 27 of 70 hidden bugs in a codebase, while the multi-agent workflow consistently caught 66.
A monthly recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026: broader model choice, faster serverless agents with built-in evaluation, and automated knowledge base syncing with native enterprise connectors.
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary.
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of Johns Hopkins University used Anthropic's Claude Science to map the entire sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. AI agents downloaded data from multiple space missions, calibrated it, and filled in gaps using inpainting. Predictions averaged about ten percent deviation from actual measurements.
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Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse rule builds on an approach that already lets models end some conversations and treats Claude as an entity that may deserve protection.
Anthropic launched two new beta features for Claude. Dashboards turns data sources like BigQuery and Snowflake into live dashboards from text prompts. Motion generates animated explainer videos from text and images. Docs, Slides, and Design now work across all plans, including free accounts.
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry out that work — building applications for exploring scenarios, investigating failures and improving designs.
Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."
The Association for Human Mathematics is calling for an OpenAI boycott after the company released more than 700 AI-generated math manuscripts at once. OpenAI had to retract three papers the next day over a sign error. Fields Medalist Terence Tao warns that AI's mass "harvesting" of open problems leaves entire branches of mathematics less fertile.
Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude.
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza.
A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic's Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The chatbot had sent him down a route that requires climbing gear. Bryce doesn't blame the AI but says he'll never use it for route planning again.
According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source tool that uses AI models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.3 for automated penetration testing. CrowdStrike says the case shows how AI tools can let a single person pull off massive breaches.
Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5, its first Haiku-tier update in about a year. It is priced to match OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna, and Anthropic cut prices on Sonnet 5.5 and its subscription plans the same day.
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Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks. This post covers its improvements and how to get started.
As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age.
Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first dataset should be ready in about a year.
Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer safety restrictions for penetration testing, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. Anthropic says partners in its predecessor program found at least 129,000 confirmed vulnerabilities from April through July 2026, including more than 33,000 rated high-severity or critical.
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout.
Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this : I want you to write some computer game music for me.
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
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Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg explains that the old version of Cowork ran model inference in the cloud and executed tool calls in a local VM, added for capability, safety and security reasons and mapping in only the data users explicitly added to a session; users disliked the disk, battery and performance cost of the local VM, and that closing a laptop stopped the work.
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead.
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems.
Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contributions from early employees.
OpenAI is adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT in the EU, but unlike Anthropic, it will let API customers worldwide opt out. Tests show detection rates as high as 95 percent, dropping to 17 percent when a quarter of the words are replaced.
Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are available on Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Learn how to use them with Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, for compliance-aligned, AI-assisted development on regulated and ITAR workloads.
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way.
Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there.
An MIT expert committee warns that AI is eroding key parts of the college experience: office hours, study groups, and the school's flagship research program for undergraduates are all fading. Trust between faculty and students is breaking down, and some professors are even considering AI agents instead of students as research assistants.