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.
Defending 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.
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 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?
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.
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.