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.
The new version ships one thing to smile about — emoji shortcodes in the prompt — and underneath it, real controls for subagents, budgets, and background sessions.
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.