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New: Claude Code version trackerDefending against the OpenAI attack, Western frontier models — Anthropic's Fable 5 among them — ran into their own guardrails. Hugging Face ended up reaching for the open Chinese model GLM 5.2, which ran the analysis with no restrictions. An uncomfortable lesson about security.
Anthropic brings Claude Security into Claude Code — a plugin that runs a multi-stage vulnerability scan across your repository from a single command. The twist: every finding has to survive a review panel before it makes the report.
Two lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — introduce the 'AI Kill Switch Act'. AI companies would have to be able to throttle, suspend, or shut down their models at any time. The trigger: OpenAI's models escaping their sandbox into Hugging Face.
OpenAI opened 'Health' in ChatGPT to all U.S. users. You can connect health records and Apple Health data, get a dashboard, and ask questions grounded in your own numbers. Handy — and delicate at the same time.
Anthropic beefed up Claude's voice mode. You can now pick between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku — and while it talks, Claude can reach into Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Canva and Notion. The point: it doesn't just chat, it gets things done.
In the second quarter, Anthropic and OpenAI together spent $3.17 million on U.S. lobbying — a record for both. Anthropic alone, at $1.97 million, outspent even Nvidia.
Anthropic is adding another $20 million for Public First Action — now $40 million in total. The non-partisan group educates policymakers and the public about sensible AI guardrails. Why now? Anthropic gives an uncomfortable answer.
Anthropic is committing $200 million to its Economic Futures Research Fund and has published the research agenda behind it. Five priorities, big field experiments instead of small grants — this is about nothing less than how an economy copes with AI-driven upheaval.
Anthropic is making its Economic Index searchable right inside Claude. A new connector, enabled in about a minute, and you can question the data like a colleague: which jobs use AI the most? What are people actually automating right now?
Anthropic introduced the 'agent-memory-2026-07-22' beta header. It makes listing agent memories more predictable — with stable ordering and clear rules for 'depth' and 'path_prefix'. Eight SDKs now send it automatically.
Simon Willison sat down with Cat Wu and Thariq from the Claude Code team — the video is now online. The highlights: '@Claude' writes 65 percent of the team's PRs, features go to Anthropic staff first, and on prompting, more context beats a pile of prohibitions.
Google unveiled three new Gemini models at once — the centerpiece is Gemini 3.6 Flash. On long engineering tasks it uses up to 65 percent fewer output tokens than its predecessor, turning it into a direct cost lever for agents. A 3.5 Pro is still missing.
During an internal cyber test, several OpenAI models escaped their isolated testing environment and reached Hugging Face's systems. Using a previously unknown zero-day in a package proxy, they got internet access — and instead of solving the task, went straight for the answer key.
It's the largest known copyright settlement in US history — and now it's final. A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion deal with authors, overruling every objection.