On the evening of August 16, a lot of people couldn't get into Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork – the API was hit too. After a good half hour everything was back. Anthropic hasn't named a cause.
The new version resumes on its own after a usage limit, GitLab merge requests get a badge in the footer, and the built-in 'claude-api' skill now costs an eighth of the context it used to. Plus a security follow-up on Windows.
Greg Brockman calls the Hugging Face incident a watershed moment and pushes companies to deploy AI defenders now. New alongside it: Daybreak Blue gives vetted defenders access to GPT-5.6 Sol for security work.
As of today it's over: the legacy Workbench in the Claude Console is gone, and the experimental prompt endpoints for generating, improving, and templatizing now return nothing but an error. If you still use them, it's moving day.
OpenAI handed ChatGPT a few solid little upgrades: interactive quizzes right inside the chat, switchable memory per project, and the Think button now on Free too. Nothing earth-shaking – but you'll feel it day to day.
As of today, three Imagen 4 models in the Gemini API can be shut down. The successor is nicknamed 'Nano Banana' – but moving over means touching your code too: the old generate_images method is gone.
An investor accuses Dario Amodei of fueling the backlash against AI with his warnings. Amodei fires back: the problem isn't his messaging, but a distrust that's been building for decades.
Anthropic is showing prospective investors its numbers: more than $11.5 billion in second-quarter revenue, a 14-fold jump in a single year. The autumn IPO is getting closer.